The question-answering entry I’d planned for Friday, before the internet went down for a day and a half, will be up on Monday. But so that you don’t have to wait to meet the new guys….
Here they are. I’ll introduce them to you one by one in Monday’s entry, but here’s the whole group for now.
There are five of them, obviously.
The silver tabby is a girl, the brown tabby is a boy, and there’s one black boy and two black girls. I’m going to get collars for the black girls so I can tell them apart (and the boy will be identifiable due to the fact that he won’t be wearing a collar). Though, I can kind of tell the girls apart because one of them is ever so slightly cross-eyed (that’s her on the far right).
They’re eight weeks old tomorrow. They were hissy-spitty when I first got them, but they’re starting to calm down. The black boy is a talker. The silver tabby is a feisty little thing.
A pregnant cat showed up on a man’s doorstep. He fed her, and then when he realized she was pregnant, he brought her inside. She gave birth to these five kittens and he’s been caring for them. But he was about to go for neck surgery and wasn’t going to be able to continue caring for them all, so through a friend of a friend, they came to Challenger’s House. (He’s going to keep the mom.)
Since Ciara and the Spice Girls are ready to go when room becomes available at Petsmart, I decided we had room for these guys!
I’ll let y’all ponder what their individual names might be, but I can tell you that they’re not named after types of peppers (Bell, Ghost, Habanero would be good kitten names, though) and they’re actually not really named after anyone in particular (well, kind of, but I’ll explain that to you when I introduce them properly).
As you can tell, Ciara, Clove, Coriander, and Cilantro are super-worried that they can’t get into that guest bedroom!
Actually, for the first day or so, they sat outside the guest bedroom, all “Why can’t we go in there? Why do you hate us? Whyyyyyy?”, but after a few days they seem to have forgotten that the guest bedroom is there (though if I spend too much time in the room with the little ones, I open the door to find seven cats sitting in the hallway waiting for me to come out!)
Sugarbutt, hanging out on the platform between the kitchen and laundry room, trying to stay cool.
Previously
2010: Oh, I crack myself UP with that picture.
2009: I like how he thinks he has any choice in the matter.
2008: Meet Michele the chicken!
2007: (Miz Poo, upon seeing me pick up a fly swatter and walk toward her, whines and runs away. Like I beat her spoiled ass on a regular basis! I don’t, but I oughta. She deserves it.)
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.
2004: The morning I wake up and find a cricket in bed with me is the day I start closing the cat door at night, believe you me.
2003: I HAVE THINGS TO DO THAT CANNOT BE ACCOMPLISHED WITH A PORTLY POO IN THE WAY.
2002: No entry.
2001: Yeah, like YOU don’t have a voice in your head that reads things to you…
2000: No entry.
BABY KITTEHS!!! SQUEEEEEE!!!!
I’m pretty sure Hali Peno would be a cute pepper name!
Good for him for keeping the mom! The cute kitties will surely be adopted.
Hello… Pepper Anderson – Police Woman! Must be the name for the silver tabby. She looks spunky and is kinda blonde like Angie Dickinson. So now you only need to name 4 kitties. We like Doctor and Salten. How about Ima??? Love the babies and I love that the man took Mama and did such a good thing for the family. Good news this morning for once.
I’d forgotten about Pepper Anderson (Police Woman). She was hot, wasn’t she?
Robyn, you’re amazing to always keep a house full of kitties. I think it would make me feel a little too tied down, but maybe that’s just middle-aged restlessness on my part.
These kitties are so cute, unsuprisingly.
I need to ask how you manage with that many cats. I had 4 and my house was a zoo. I tried Feliway and everything else I could think of, but one of the females stopped using the cat box and substituting the couch instead. The two males are gone now, but the little female has never returned reliably to the cat box. She pees there, but poos in the house. I love cats. I would love to foster them, but I really don’t have a clue how to manage them. Do you have any references for me, or could you do a blog entry about how you do it? (all of my cats were neutered, three were kittens when I first got them- over a spread of 13 years, one wandered in at a year old).
I want to echo the other commentors about how happy I was to hear that the man is keeping the mom. The kittens will find a home quickly, I’m sure, but it’s often chancy for the older cats. That man’s earning karma, and I hope you get a chance to let him know we all think so. (c:
Second picture, the black kitten with his/her paw on the little tabby’s head – cracking me UP! And the black one of the left, peering around the post, looks like he/she’s hatching a plan to rule the world.
Ha, you are right Lisa. I missed the obvious planning of world domination the first time I looked for the photos. We are surely doomed.
Ofcourse my brain is singing the old Dr. Pepper Jingle-I’m a Pepper, He’s a Pepper,She’s a Pepper-wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper too?” David McNaughton (I think that’s who he was- cute guy star of American Werewolf In London-I need to watch that movie again. Love It!). I can’t wait to hear the name story. Love the cross eyed black one but they are all adorable. Also agree kudos for the man who kept the Mama cat!
Aww, I thought five kittens with pepper names would be like The Five Little Peppers. I guess you and most of your readers are not familiar with these classic children’s books. The Five Little Peppers would be: Ben (Ebeneezer), Polly (Mary), Joel, David and Phronsie (Sophronie). But the division of male/female wouldn’t work out, I guess. Your idea is cute, too, being lovers of peppers. They sure are pretty little things. I’m glad the momma cat got adopted and I’m sure you’ll raise the kids right and they will find great homes, too.
“The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew” — I remember those books so well from summer vacation trips to the library! I used to climb the tree in front of our house with a book and read. I loved them (and the name Phronsie).
Now I have to check Amazon (or maybe FreeBooks) and see if they’re available …