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It’s kind of funny that Charlie likes to chase Alice now, because I remember reading somewhere that one of the factors in your deciding to keep him was that he originally honored Alice’s desire to stay away from him!
I know!! I don’t know why I thought the way he acted as a smaller kitten would continue on through his life. Around the time Charlie got bigger than Alice, he started chasing her and I think he tumbled her a time or two, and she became very wary of him.
Last fall her fear of Charlie became bad enough that she started peeing on the couch (we assumed that she didn’t want to have to go by him to use the litter box.) We tried a few things – including Fred carrying her to the litter box a few times a day and standing guard, which he doesn’t mind going, but isn’t a great long-term solution. What really made a huge difference is when we started her on Amitriptyline at the vet’s suggestion. She is still sometimes wary of him, but she’s more confident and less inclined to run from him, and she hasn’t peed on the couch since we started her on it. These days, if she’s sleeping in her bed on the couch and he climbs up next to her, she’ll just look at him and go back to sleep. I don’t know that she and Charlie are meant to be friends, but if they can coexist and she feels comfortable walking by him to use the litter box, then that’s good enough for me. (Charlie and Alice are both good friends with Khal, and I love that!)
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Do you ever help a kitten ‘latch on’ if it looks like the same kitten is having trouble getting to the milk bar?
Sometimes – it depends on the kitten and whether I think they’re really having a problem. If a kitten who’s been gaining weight well is yelling and complaining, I’ll generally let him or her figure it out. If a smaller kitten who’s having a problem gaining weight, or gaining more slowly than I think they should, I’ll get involved. (I will say that RARELY is my interference appreciated by the mother cats, but I can’t help myself.)
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Posty from below.
Stapler and Paper Clip up high(ish), Posty (left) and Andi lower.
Those are some pretty amazing whiskers on Andi.
Paper Clip makes the leap while Stapler watches approvingly.
Stapler has a rest.
Two of the Foundlings – likely Stapler and Paper Clip – will be headed to Petsmart soon. None of the four kittens have gotten any inquiries at all, so it’s time for them to go where they can be seen. Hopefully their super friendly, playful ways will catch someone’s eye and they won’t be there for long. In the meanwhile, they’ll be very well looked after by the awesome volunteers.
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What a cute pile o’ sleepy.
Moxie has a think.
Such a rough life!
Line ’em up! From left: Fanta, Poppi, Sundrop and Moxie.
At this point, it certainly looks like there’s a possibility that all four kittens will be floofy – but we’ll see!
Sundrop’s eyes are open, if you missed that.
Moxie (and Fanta and Poppi) are on the slow-open eyeball plan, apparently. That, or they’ll all just POP! open at once and I’ll walk in to see a bunch of eyeballs.
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Alice, Charlie and Khal on the couch, keeping Fred company while he reads.
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Posted on social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr/ Bluesky) yesterday.
Happy Thlurrrpsday, from Sodapop.
I cannot even with Fanta’s scrunched-up “Eww, I smell humans” face.
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Moxie’s feelin’ hissy. Some kittens hiss pretty much from birth (reacting to the strange smell of a human), and some kittens hiss later on, when their ears start to open and they hear unfamiliar sounds. Moxie’s the latter, but I have to say – she needs to put a little more oomph into that hissing, I’m not buying that she means it.
(Please be patient – someone from the “Well, actually” crowd will be along momentarily to inform us all that I am WRONG WRONG WRONGITTY WRONG, that that kitten isn’t HISSING, that she clearly has something wrong with her, and that kittens don’t hiss at such a young age.)
I hear the cold weather is making a comeback here in Alabama next week, but I think I’ll be okay since cats are known to have a body temperature of 10,000 degrees Farenheit. (Bonus, Andi over there in the window ignoring me because I had the nerve to suggest she join us.)
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A handful of people have pointed out that naming kittens after characters from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders is a great naming theme (side note: Sodapop, who we are currently fostering, came to us pre-named.) I agree that it’s a great naming theme, which is why I used it in 2016. We fostered four brothers – Sodapop, Ponyboy, Darry and Two-Bit, and this Throw Back Thursday video is Ponyboy purring up a storm.
Good night innernets. (From left: Fanta, Sundrop, Moxie & Poppi)
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Previously
2024: Abandons kittens for some scritchin’.
2023: Cinnaspin and Francesca. Awwwww.
2022: “Lady, are you aware that there are birds out there?” she inquires.
2021: She’s going to keep us waiting, is what I’m saying.
2020: Kitten as accessory.
2019: Caroline’s birth story.
2018: “Am busy hanging out in the sun.”
2017: Alice thinks if she acts all cute and chatty, I’ll reward her with ham.
2016: No entry.
2015: Gracie is a big fan of morning snack time, if you were curious.
2014: Angelo would like to know what I think I’m doing.
2013: Jobey-Joe, the tuxie-doe, sure is looking emo, no?
2012: Sugarbutt, if you’re going to get the feather, you’re going to have to work on your swing.
2011: No entry.
2010: Won’t you be my Val-LOON-tine?
2009: SHE IS A VERY HIGH-ENERGY DOG.
2008: He don’t need no stinkin’ valentine.
2007: No entry.
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.
Love the photo with the Foundlings on the wall thingies (or is it thingys?). Sodapop’s eyes are quite striking.
Do you have to give Alice the Amitriptyline every day? I tried to use it with my Clawdius, my skittish orange boy, but it seemed to make him more freaked out. He has a tendency to get freaked out and then pee outside the litter box.
Yes, Alice gets a half pill (I think) every morning. (Fred is responsible for medicating the permanent residents; I believe it’s a half pill. It’s so tiny we had to buy empty capsules and put each tiny half-pill in the capsule so it would fit in the pill gun)
I would snap up Stapler in a heart beat if I were able.
Where are her people already!
Every time I visited this page last year (and this year too), I would find Shelby’s adopted picture. I absolutely adore that worried look on her face. Coming from a litter all her own she was so little compared to the other kittens at the time. Hope she is doing well.