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Kittens Day Two
Today the kittens learned how to eat, how to drink water and how to
poop. They haven't quite gotten the hang of walking on water yet, but they're working on it. One of the kittens, after stuffing himself with cat food, started making scratching motions, so I tossed him in the litter box. After a great production digging several holes until he got it just right, he left his deposit and promptly stepped in it. The other two kittens followed. With each one, the mother cat checked up on what they were doing, scratching around in the litter box. It's fascinating watching the mother cat interact with the kittens. She has a particular trilling purr and the kittens all start meowing (squeaking) and come running to her. She likes to lay down and watch the kittens play. The interesting thing about the purr, it's exactly the same purr that Shadow the feral used to make whenever he saw my cat Pip. Of course Pip was disgusted by Shadow's homosexual advances and won't have anything to do with him, but Shadow keeps following him around years later. -- John Kimmel "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt |
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guynoir wrote: Today the kittens learned how to eat, how to drink water and how to poop. They haven't quite gotten the hang of walking on water yet, but they're working on it. One of the kittens, after stuffing himself with cat food, started making scratching motions, so I tossed him in the litter box. After a great production digging several holes until he got it just right, he left his deposit and promptly stepped in it. The other two kittens followed. With each one, the mother cat checked up on what they were doing, scratching around in the litter box. It's fascinating watching the mother cat interact with the kittens. She has a particular trilling purr and the kittens all start meowing (squeaking) and come running to her. Nothing cuter than that trill. When I was hiking the foothills of Pike's Peak one day about 10 years ago, I heard a mountain lion make that trill to her cubs and then the cubs answered back. Then *everything* in the area went silent. We got the heck out of there, pronto. The next day we found fresh tracks and the cat's feet were larger than my outstretched hand. We were lucky we got out of there in one piece. -L. |
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guynoir wrote:
It's fascinating watching the mother cat interact with the kittens. She has a particular trilling purr and the kittens all start meowing (squeaking) and come running to her. She likes to lay down and watch the kittens play. Too cute! In 1986, I found a mom cat and her 4 kitties at my then apt. complex. I took them in. They were probably about 4 weeks old at the time. It was the first time I had been around a mom cat and kittens. It was a lot of fun. I wound up keeping the mom cat, Emily, and one of her sons, Cory, who lived to be 14 and 18 respectively (Cory died a little over a year ago). The others all got homes, too. I wonder if you'll be tempted to keep any of this little family? Candace |
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The last time I let a kitten go, she was crying as I carried her out to
the car, and as the car drove off. I'm still traumatized a year later. I'm going to try and get the mother's new owner to take the whole batch, and then get rid of the kittens herself. I hate kittens, they're expensive, high maintenance, they force me to neglect my other cats, and they make me cry. Candace wrote: guynoir wrote: It's fascinating watching the mother cat interact with the kittens. She has a particular trilling purr and the kittens all start meowing (squeaking) and come running to her. She likes to lay down and watch the kittens play. Too cute! In 1986, I found a mom cat and her 4 kitties at my then apt. complex. I took them in. They were probably about 4 weeks old at the time. It was the first time I had been around a mom cat and kittens. It was a lot of fun. I wound up keeping the mom cat, Emily, and one of her sons, Cory, who lived to be 14 and 18 respectively (Cory died a little over a year ago). The others all got homes, too. I wonder if you'll be tempted to keep any of this little family? Candace -- John Kimmel Naturally, these humorous remarks are all entirely my own opinion, based solely on rumor, supposition, innuendo and damned lies, and should be interpreted in a spirit of fun. My memory is faulty, also. |
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