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In case you missed it on social media yesterday, we have new fosters! No, not tiny bottle babies and no, not a pregnant cat. These are older kittens – teenagers, really – who are with us ’til they’re adopted or can go to Petsmart. They’re currently suffering from some upper respiratory stuff, so they’re sneezing and snuffling a lot (is there anything harder to clean off a wall than dried snot? NOPE) and are on meds. Hopefully the meds kick in soon – though at least they’re all eating and playing a bit rather than just sitting around looking miserable, so I’m grateful for that.
(Yes, I know you want a pregnant cat or tiny bottle babies or some combination of the two. There will be a pregnant cat in the future, I’m sure. But this is who Forgotten Felines asked me to take, so I took ’em!)
PS: All these cats came to me pre-named.
This is Helix. He is a boy. His estimated date of birth is June 25, 2024, which makes him almost 7 months old.
Helix’s sister Spiral. She’s a girl, and she is also a floofy snowshoe mix. She’s got a white nose, and he does not. I am 100% sure I will call them by the wrong names more than once. (She’s got the same estimated date of birth.)
Helix and Spiral are a bonded pair and have to be adopted together. They’re the only bonded pair in this bunch.
Alley Oop. She’s a girl, and she’s listed as a torti point snowshoe mix. Her estimated date of birth is June 5, 2024, which means she’s closing in on 8 months old. She has a nub of a tail about 3 inches long.
Stapler. She’s a black and white tuxie girl, and Fred describes her as “aggressively friendly.” If you sit down, she is IN your lap. She just wants to be looooved. She cracks me up. Her date of birth is May 20, 2024, which (counting on fingers) means she’s just over 8 months old.
Posty. She looks black and white, but is actually dark gray and white (I mistake her for Stapler often, but she’s smaller). She likes to burrow under the blanket on the couch, and also hang out under the cat bed on the floor, but she comes out to be petted; she just likes small spaces, she’s not really a scaredy cat. Same date of birth as Stapler, so she’s 8 months old.
Paper Clip. She’s a gray tabby and white, and will you PLEASE admire her tail light? Because of that tail light (and because they had a brother named Highlighter who’s already been adopted), I keep trying to call her Highlighter. So when I am not paying attention and call her Highlighter, please know that I haven’t totally lost it. Same date of birth as Stapler and Posty, so she’s 8 months old.
If you couldn’t tell, Stapler, Posty and Paper Clip are sisters.
I had to unzip the donut to medicate these two, so grabbed a picture while I was at it. That’s Oakley on the left (silver tabby, boy, date of birth I am not sure, but I’d call him around 7 months old). Andi on the right, gray and white tuxie girl, date of birth June 5, 2024, which makes her almost 8 months old.)
Oakley and Andi are not related to each other or any of the other kittens in the bunch.
Andi’s got no tail, just the tiniest nub that she “wags.”
Most of the kittens were found abandoned or lost, without a mother, so I’m calling them The Foundlings as a whole.
Helix is interested in the wall. The higher he can get to sneeze on the wall, the harder it’ll be for me to clean it up, and that pleases him. (I kid. He’s a sweet boy.)
Posty was burrowed under the blanket, but peeked out when I sat down near her.
“What you DOIN’, lady?” Andi wonders.
Another shot of Paper Clip’s adorable tail light.
I went and got these guys Monday, so the foster room was empty for juuust about a day. As I told Fred, that’s the longest amount of time we had zero fosters in the house in recent memory!
Unfortunately, I forgot rule #1 of cats, which is “Doesn’t matter how short the drive is, the more cats you’ve got in your car, the higher chance someone is gonna poop in the carrier.” Compounding the “Cats gonna poop” rule was that in the interest of laziness (ie, having to carry fewer carriers from my car to Michelle’s front porch), I decided they were probably still small enough to double up in carriers. Two cats pooped, so four cats needed baths.
I’d like to say I’ll know better next time, but no I won’t.
They’re kind of a mess between the snotty noses and runny eyes and medicine that some of them have drooled down the front of themselves, but they are a very sweet bunch! (Andi was very nervous and insisted on hiding for about the first day, but now she’s out in the room, likes climbing up into the highest bed, and approaches me for petting. As of now, Oakley’s the only scaredy cat hider, and hopefully he’ll come around in a few more days.)
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Charlie, watchin’ the birds. Well, he HAD been watching the birds, but decided to snooze a bit.
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Posted on social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr/ Bluesky) yesterday.
New fosters, and not a pregnant one among them! Here’s a shot of 5 of the 8 kittens (7-8 months old) who are in the foster room. They’re all on meds for upper respiratory stuff, and they’re with us for the time being until they’re adopted or can head off to Petsmart. I am working on putting a video together, hopefully that’ll be posted this afternoon.
Pictured are: Posty (gray and white on the couch), Spiral (ragdoll-ish floofy standing on the bread bed), Alley Oop (looking at the box), Paper Clip (back, right), and Stapler (black and white in the front right.) All kittens in this picture are girls.
Tina at home (after a long day yesterday, they made it home very early this morning.) Jennifer says that Tina travels like a champ (I’m not surprised!) and after some exploration of her new space, she’s getting some rest. She looks so content! (Thanks, Jennifer!)
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Meet the new fosters! 8 kittens 7-8 months old who are spayed/neutered and ready to go once they’re over the upper respiratory stuff they have. (If any of them catch your interest, email Forgotten Felines of Huntsville at info (at) ffhsv.org to inquire. Helix and Spiral (the floofy snowshoe mixes) are a bonded pair and must be adopted together.
Good night innernets. (Andi)
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Previously
2024: And off she goes!
2023: No entry.
2022: No entry.
2021: “What? You’ve never seen a pregnant lady with a pickle before?”
2020: Archie’s keeping an eye on Earl the Skwerl.
2019: Such a sweet boy.
2018: Why I had to move the cat beds away from the bay window.
2017: No entry.
2016: “Sometimes I bat the sparkly ball all the way across the room before I lay down for a nap!”
2015: No entry.
2014: Cruella has no time for your nonsense.
2013: Baby Beans, in the midst of Deep Thoughts.
2012: No entry.
2011: Starsky and Hutch (Percy and Jack) update!
2010: It was a nice surprise to unexpectedly see their little faces again!
2009: Hello, gorgeous.
2008: Did I mention that Skittles is a pretty girl?
2007: Moonman has earned himself the nickname “Joe Bob” for no reason other than it’s a good nickname for him (also, I occasionally call him “Joseph Robert”).
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.