Kittehs!!!
No advice--I got my first and current cat when she was already 2-3 years old.
But enjoy them!
Keep us up to date on cute kitteh stories, and make sure to take lots of pictures, please!
It's a real burden being right so often.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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Kathy A - Mar 16, 2009 1:27:11 pm PDT #3781 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Kathy A - Mar 16, 2009 1:28:13 pm PDT #3782 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Oh, I meant to ask--are they babies, or moving towards awkward teenagedom?
amych - Mar 16, 2009 1:29:22 pm PDT #3783 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
anyone have Kitten owing advice?
Pictures pictures pictures!
tommyrot - Mar 16, 2009 1:37:44 pm PDT #3784 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Computer scientists have determined that the best way to keep the intertubes unclogged is by sending pictures of kittens through them.
askye - Mar 16, 2009 2:02:00 pm PDT #3785 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
They are about 5 months old...so tween kittehs?
Scrappy - Mar 16, 2009 2:05:13 pm PDT #3786 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Don't play fight games with your hands, even though it's fun. Hands are for petting and nuzzling only. Use laser pointers or feathers for attack play from the very beginning. When they bite you (and they will) get used to instantly and LOUDLY saying OW! right in their ear. It has worked with all kittens I have raised to get them to stop biting hands or the dreaded undercover footbite in the middle of the night.
Also hold them on your lap often and make them stay there a bit longer than they want, if either of them is shy. If they haven't been socialized well, it takes a while to make them see how nice lap-sitting can be.
Kathy A - Mar 16, 2009 2:08:25 pm PDT #3787 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Five month olds seem to be so cute! Comcast OnDemand has a "Pet Adoption" section featuring cats from the Chicago city shelter, and they have two adorable five-month-old boys right now that I would love to get. The woman doing the presenting said that Henry was the friendliest cat they'd ever had there, and just as she said it, he jumped up and tried to wrap his front paws around her neck and she just had to pick him up and snuggle him! And then there was Horton, who was going wild in sheer bliss over her rubbing his tummy--he kept wriggling around and flopping over, pleading for more. So damn adorable!
billytea - Mar 16, 2009 2:29:33 pm PDT #3788 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Elsie just died. I'm not quite sure how we get from here to the next 20 books, but she was so upset about being sent to the convent school that she feel into a fever, and has been hallucinating for the past 20 pages or so, while her father prays that Jesus might take mercy on a sinner like him and bring his daughter back, but the doctor just declared her dead.
She was killed by the mere threat of Catholicism? That is quite simply awesome. Is the Pope also able to make people's brains explode just by looking at them? I mean, obviously the current Pope can, if the Star Wars movies are anything to go by, but I didn't realise they'd got the death ray already working by the 19th century.
Connie Neil - Mar 16, 2009 2:37:06 pm PDT #3789 of 30000
brillig
Don't play fight games with your hands, even though it's fun.
Yeah, tell that to Hubby. He tends to laugh and say Ow at the time, so that ruins everything.
sj - Mar 16, 2009 2:51:28 pm PDT #3790 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
After the conversation in here today, I should probably feel guilty about eating girl scout cookies, but I don't.