kitten update

They like to clean Liam on Weekend mornings. It is both adorable and disgusting

So, in all my garden planning and moving preperation and decorating fervor and well, cat related sadness… I have been neglecting to update the internet on the state of my multi-kittened household.

I mean, you guys don’t even know how they got here, do you?

We were spending a lot of time at the vet with Kaylee, and our amazing, wonderful Queen West Animal Clinic had started putting out little, teensy, adorable kitties with little, teensy, adorable sob-stories.

These particular kittens had been found playing all by themselves on a country road. They were very closely bonded and played together all day (I’ve seen them pass a ball back and forth between them like little kids) and slept huddled together in one little ball of fluff at night.
So, the vet did not want them to be separated.

They had almost been adopted - and even spent the day with a young family - but had been sadly sent back to their cage at the vets office.

So we took them home.

I mean, how can you say no to a story like that?

This one with little spots on her nose is Piglet. We were going to call her Dorothy (after Dorothy Parker), but they had already named her Piglet at the vet’s office, and it stuck as she’s clingy, and sweet, and just a little bit chubby, and… piggy.

She’s got short, little legs, and sometimes when she’s been running around like crazy (which happens quite a lot, actually) and it’s hot out, she pants and snorffles exactly like a little puppy. She’s built like a little puppy too.

She loves to cuddle as much as she likes to run, and she growls at you if you come near her when she’s got her favourite toy (a little squishy pink ball she’s nearly destroyed).

Actually I think she might be a puppy in disguise.

She has a crush on Maeby and follows her around (which Maeby is totally not into).

This one’s Flora. She’s quieter and gentler and prefers things that make noise to things that move.

I think she might be slightly older than Piglet because she often takes care of her. Flora makes sure Piglet cleans her box properly, and eats first and always knows where she is, and if she’s sleeping lies down next to her and snuggles.

Flora demands more attention from us than Piglet, meowing for us to wake up in the morning, greeting us cheerfully, rubbing on our legs and hopping into our laps. This sorta confirms my theory about her being older and having to take care of her sister, because I think she’s really happy to have someone to take care of the both of them, and that they’re not alone and locked in a cage or out in the wilderness anymore.