If you’re interested, I spent the past week posting old posts about a litter from 2007 – the Ka-Tet. Six kittens from two litters, three brown tabbies and three orange tabbies. They were about two months old when I got them, and were only intended to be with us for a little while since adoptions had recently picked up. Except for Callahan (who was adopted quickly), all of them went off to Petsmart and then ended up coming back here for a round of medication for Giardia (which didn’t show up until they were at Petsmart). They were a fun bunch of kittens – Eddie Dean, especially, was a wild one. Fred nicknamed him “Crazy Eddie”, and for a few years afterward when we’d get a particularly wild brown tabby, he’d call him or her Crazy Eddie.
Eddie Dean was actually returned back in 2012 for reasons I don’t recall (probably something in the moving/baby/allergies/divorce genre), and then was adopted back out.
Two things of note: 1) back in 2007 I was terrible about identifying kittens in posts. I can tell the three orange tabbies apart, but not the three brown tabbies. I’m sure at the time I knew who was who, but it’s been almost 9 years, and I have no idea now. 2) I was less stringent about cleaning kitten ears in 2007 than I am now, apparently. I’d like to jump in a time machine and go back and CLEAN THOSE EARS, because they look awful. I considered photoshopping the gunk out of their ears, but that was going to take forever since there were 200+ pictures of them, so I left them as is. Just know that I would NEVER let kittens run around with ears like that these days.
You can read about the Ka-Tet starting here (you know about the “next” links at the tops and bottoms of each page to get to the next post, I trust). Lots of bonus pictures of a teenage Stinkerbelle in those posts!
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FYI, if you’re ever looking for the page with the list of all past and present fosters (which doesn’t include the ones I haven’t added to Love and Hisses yet), it’s here. There’s also a link in the sidebar that looks like this:
There does not exist yet a list of all the names used and/or a list of possible future naming themes, but rest assured that it’s on my lengthy list of stuff to do!
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The belly before the spay operation (and the tongue sticking out, of course).
Koko is doing well – she’s still feeling a little punky from the surgery, I think. After all, not only was she spayed, she also got her rabies vaccination and first set of her other vaccinations. Kittens would have been bouncing around like wild things by now, but for an older kitten, it takes more out of them. She’s been pretty quiet, but is happy to see us and get kisses.
I opened the door to the rest of the upstairs on Saturday, and she came out briefly to look around before she went back into the foster room, climbed into the wall condo and went back to sleep. Yesterday, she came out a bit more, and even made it to the bottom of the stairs briefly. She smacked at the door when Jake wandered by, which sent him into a tizzy. Hopefully she’ll be relaxed enough to hang out in Fred’s room the way all fosters eventually do.
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Guess who Newt is holding personally responsible for the recent cold weather? Certainly not Mother Nature!
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Previously
2015: No entry.
2014: Norbdate, Flookdate, and Tony(Soprano)date!
2013: “I am just a wee bebbeh chick, poor sad, defenseless meeeeeee…”
2012: Alice showing Sally Peppers who the boss is with that outstretched paw just kills me DEAD.
2011: No entry.
2010: No entry.
2009: No entry.
2008: And yet, somehow I’m SURPRISED that the bedspread is covered in cat hair.
2007: It was severely gross, yet oddly fascinating.
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.
Koko is such a doll.
In your Ka-tet posting you mentioned “Stinkerbelle hasn’t been through the whole new-fosters thing, so her nose is a bit out of joint ….” I laughed as I thought that perhaps it never went back into joint. 🙂 She was as pretty of a youngster as she is an adult.
There is a series of adorable pictures of little Stinkerbelle in the Ka-tet posts. Yet another good reason to go red them! 🙂
LOL – GD, you’re right, her nose has never gone back into joint!
Callahan was the most uniquely colored cat I have ever seen, either in photos or in person. Would love to see what he looks like today. Thanks for filling in the gaps in kitten fosterdom at Crooked Acres.
sent Jake into a tizzy 🙂
To be fair, it’s not hard to send Jake into a tizzy. 😀
The 2013 post is a good one. <3
It is!!! Ahhhh…Lilybet the faker! 🙂
Also….Arnold!!!!!!
Aw, poor Jake getting no respect from the ladies!
Stinkerbelle’s gonna get a full head once she hears about all the comments she’s getting on what Beautiful Belle she was and still is.
well look at all the work you are getting done on the blog without kittens 🙂
I’d rather have kittens! 🙂
Oh goodness I LOVE the fosters page.. I so want to do that for mine now..
Robyn: You are being emailed shortly a list of all names both BY DATE and ALPHABETICALLY.
(snow days in the NE are to blame plus my love for making lists. And yes, you may ALL call me weird but it was fun!)
Everyone needs a hobby to keep them out of trouble! 🙂
At one point I counted up all the fosters on the foster page (not including Kokomo) and subtracted your total number of fosters (288) and found that you have 39 cats that you haven’t blogged about. Now you have 33!