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Just a reminder to you that the 2024 calendars – 9 of them! – are available for purchase at Zazzle! Go here (or click on that picture above) to see them all!
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Time to let me know if you want a holiday card, with this year’s featured Crooked Acre permanent resident! Go here to Postable, enter your name and address, and your card will be on the way soon. I am happy to send cards to other countries, this is NOT limited to U.S. residents. If you have any problems, drop me an email and I’ll do my best to fix it. I’ll take names and addresses until December 20th.
If you’d like to send me a card as well (never ever required, but always appreciated – I don’t keep track of who does or doesn’t send a card, I promise!), send it to:
Robyn Anderson
1260 US HWY 72E, STE B #130
Athens, AL 35611 USA
(PS: If that link doesn’t work for you, or you prefer not to enter your info (I delete your name and address once I’ve downloaded it), you can email me instead.)
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I don’t know what Ouiser was looking at here, but I’m not sure she cared for it.
It’s a frosted Shelby pie (my favorite!) (See the pictures/text in the social media section for a description of what’s going on with her fur. Kinda neat!)
Drum really loves that window sill on sunny days.
Clairee’s all “Can you tell him to keep his stinky foot to himself?”
Looks like Shelby’s trying to start something.
It’s a Shelby-Drum pie, and looks like Drum’s gonna get the ol’ chomperoo.
Drum’s always up for a tussle.
And they tussled so hard Shelby’s ear turned inside out.
Clairee is out cold.
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Alice makes herself comfy under the Christmas tree. (Yes, we have a Christmas tree – the cats don’t mess with it. But there’s nothing breakable on it, so they could knock it down twice a day and I’d just sigh and set it back upright.)
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Posted on social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr) yesterday.
REGARDING SHELBY.
1. You may have noticed that Shelby has developed some white patches (especially above her tail) and some all-over white fur, giving her a “frosted” look. I’m pretty sure it’s what is known as a “fever coat” which is believed to occur when the mother develops a fever during pregnancy, and her unborn kittens are exposed to an elevated body temperature in utero. (Stress can cause it as well, so it’s also known as a “stress coat.”) As she gets older (usually by 4 months), the fever/stress coat will go away, and she’ll be “just” a black kitten with some white patches.
2. Yes, she is quite a bit smaller than the other three. At this point, my plan is to wait until she’s big enough to be spayed and then spay/neuter all 4 of them at once whereupon they’ll be available for adoption. Forgotten Felines prefers to spay/neuter at 3 pounds but I don’t think Shelby will hit that weight by 3 months. Her appetite has certainly picked up recently, so who knows? (She’ll be 9 weeks old on Wednesday).
3. No, she is not going to be a permanent resident. (She is also not adoption pending – none of the kittens are – because we don’t know when they’ll be ready to go home.)
Clairee and the tilted head of “What you doin’, weird lady?”
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Ouiser has a toy made of dog fur* and she is NOT GONNA SHARE.
*The dog fur came off of a Great Pyrenees dog that had been brushed. The loose fur was sent to me, and I made toys out of it. (The kittens always love those balls of dog fur.) I feel the need to explain this to y’all thanks to the genius who was unaware, I guess, that dogs shed and that fur could be removed from a dog without cruelty. Bless. Her. Heart.
I constantly tell M’Lynn what a pretty, pretty girl she is, and she just looks at me like “Yeah, I know.”
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Shelby playing with the track toy (and I love that she’s still small enough to run around IN the track!), then picking a fight with Clairee, who just wants to play with her ball.
Drum, bein’ snuggly.
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This is just a very quick video of Shelby and Clairee playing – my favorite part is that you can see M’Lynn in the right-side heart-shaped mirror and Drum (and Ouiser) in the mirror on the door, watching Shelby and Clairee play.
Good night innernets. (From M’Lynn, Clairee, Shelby and Ouiser. Drum is on the other end of the couch, curled up sound asleep.)
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Previously
2022: The Fabulous Khal enjoys a nap under the Christmas tree.
2021: No entry.
2020: No entry.
2019: “Just a little taste…”
2018: Fender has a tiny complaint, and Pulley is concerned.
2017: The cats are starting to get restless.
2016: “Am sleepy, lady. You go ‘way.”
2015: No entry.
2014: This is Archie.
2013: The Sopranos, 3 months old.
2012: Dandelion went off to her new home just fine.
2011: SO stressed.
2010: No entry.
2009: No entry.
2008: Every time I look at him, I want to squeeze the stuffing out of him.
2007: “We should do Stinky,” Fred said.
2006: I’m telling y’all, this is the MOST mellow cat I’ve ever seen in my life.
2005: No entry.
So interesting about Shelby’s fur! And loving that last photo, with her sprawled over a carpet of kittens.
I was blessed this morning on my way to work, with an orange cat who came right up to me for lots of strokes, it was a wonderful bit of softness from the universe at dark-o-clock in the morning!
Your kitties are melting! Also, two of your captions are swapped … snuggly Drum and pretty M’Lynn.
Thanks, it should be fixed now!
The picture of Drum’s foot dangling in front of Ouiser and Clairee — just like a brother trying to annoy his sisters! 😉 Also, I had heard of kittens with fever coats (maybe from you?) but assumed they would be born with them, rather than develop them. So interesting!
The frosted look is so pretty though.
If you ever need more dog fur, drop me a line. My dog sheds so much I think I could make a 2nd dog about once a month.
I get that. One of our cats was like that. I thought we had major “tumble furs” because we had two cats, but when she passed away, it was astounding how much the amount of ambient fur lessened. And she was not a long-haired kitty! The survivor and a new kitty still don’t create the same amount of fluff.