Sep 23 2025

Let’s give these kittens a hand (thumbs up emoji)

  • September 23, 2025

Just relaxing

Shirley gave birth to six beautiful kittens on July 10th, 2025.  Mycroft, is confused by this whole “birds and bees” thing and has moved on to his next romantic conquest.

If you are interested in filling out an application, please email atlastcats@gmail.com and tell us a bit about yourself, your family, and your pets (past or present). Our applications have a lot of questions so we try to do a bit of screening to make sure we’re a good fit before we put you through all of that work. (And us, too. They take a long time to review!)

(Skip the next few paragraphs if you just want to see kitten pictures).

We named these kittens after tendons in the hand, because we’ve had some crazy drama around that recently. In late July, we were washing one of our adult girls (not her first time) who emphatically told us she did NOT want to go to a cat show by biting Marie on the wrist.

Now, we’ve been bitten plenty of times before, but this one was, “just right.” The next day Marie’s hand and wrist were so painful she could barely move them. We went off to Urgent Care, where she was diagnosed with an infection and prescribed the oral antibiotic that 99% of the time is the right one for cat bites.

A few days later there was no improvement, so we went to our regular doctor, who told Marie to go to the Emergency Room, do not pass GO, do not collect $200. Marie was admitted and stayed in the hospital for two days on intravenous antibiotics.

As the healing progressed, Marie found that she could not move her thumb into a full thumbs up. The orthopedic surgeon determined that a  tendon had been severed, either by the bite or the infection, and surgery was scheduled ASAP.

Surgery went well, but the healing process means keeping the thumb immobile with Marie’s hand and wrist in a cast for a month. Then will follow months of physical therapy before Marie can return to full function knitting, crocheting, and other yarn-based activities.

Oh, did I mention that Marie is right handed and that the bite was on her right hand?

Yeah, it’s been a time.

Anyway, here are kitten pictures!

Four of these kittens are reserved, but we don’t know which ones yet.

Digitorum (girl)

Radialis (girl)

Longus (boy)

Brevis (girl)

Profundus (boy)

Ulnaris (boy)

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Jun 30 2025

Pixel has retired and is available

  • June 30, 2025

Pixel

Pixel retired from making babies, got spayed, and now is looking for a new forever home. She is six and a half years old. She can be very sweet and we’d love to keep her, but things would get too crowded if she stayed.

Pixel is very much the lap cat, and she will spend hours there if you let her. She generally gets along with other cats, but in larger groups of cats she can get stressed out and  be a bit of a bully, so we ideally her new home will have only one or two other cats.

If you are interested in filling out an application for Pixel, please email atlastcats@gmail.com and tell us a bit about yourself, your family, and your pets (past or present). Our applications have a lot of questions so we try to do a bit of screening to make sure we’re a good fit before we put you through all of that work. (And us, too. They take a long time to review!)

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Mar 30 2025

Powerful you have become, the cute side I sense in you.

  • March 30, 2025

Pixel had three lovely kittens on January 3rd, 2025. As usual, Logan, the father, is denying responsibility, but we know better. The two boys are reserved, and the girl is being kept to replace Pixel when she retires.

If you’re wondering why it has taken us so long to post about this litter, well, there was some drama along the way and we’re only now getting around to updating the website.

A few weeks after delivery, Pixel developed a mastitis infection in one of her nipples and had a high temperature. The vet tried the normal antibiotics but they didn’t do the trick, so we had to take her to the emergency vet to stay for a couple of nights to get stronger antibiotics, regular infusions of fluid, and so on.

Pixel recovered, but while she was away we had to bottle feed her kittens every four hours, which meant setting alarms for the middle of the night to stay on schedule. When Pixel came home she had to be kept in a different room than the kittens for two weeks, because the antibiotics in her system might be transferred to the kittens through her milk, affecting their development. So it was a rough couple of weeks.

However, along the way, we captured this video of how the kittens would wiggle their ears while they ate. We thought they looked like Yoda, so we named them after three members of Yoda’s species that have been seen in Star Wars movies or TV shows.

Anyway, here they are!

Yoda (boy) reserved

Yaddle (girl) we’re keeping her

Grogu (boy) reserved

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Dec 29 2024

Hello, ladies!

  • December 29, 2024

It’s been a little crazy around here with two litters of kittens running around and getting ready to go to their forever homes (cuteness overload!), so we’ve been remiss in introducing you to two new girls who we hope will be great future mothers.

Bonaventure

First up is Bonaventure (we call her Bonnie for short) , who comes to us from GGlegacy Maine Coons. Bonnie is a sweet girl who just might be the dictionary definition of “love muffin.” She loves to be near or on us, and is not afraid of using her voice to let us know that she wants attention and/or food.

Bonnie accompanied Shirley (see below) to her first cat show and was nonplussed by the experience. She was too young to actually participate, but was content to hang out with Shirley in the benching area and took the crowds and the noise in stride.

Shirley

We also would like to introduce you to Shirley. She is Queen Sarah Saturday’s daughter from our Laverne & Shirley litter.  Shirley is laid back and affectionate. She can be independent, but when she comes around to sit on your lap, Shirley is ready for some serious head/chin/belly rubs.

Shirley went to her first cat show as a kitten, earned a few finals, and received some nice comments about her potential from the judges. She took to the process of showing and being handled by the judges very well, and by the end of the show she was playing with the judge’s toys and showing off her conformation like a pro.

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Nov 03 2024

Hooray for Hollywood

  • November 3, 2024

Hollywood (aka Holly) gave birth to six kittens on October 1st, 2024. They are all doing well and are just figuring out solid food and the litter box.  Charlie, the father, is claiming that he waived all parental rights when he became a sperm donor, but we don’t believe him.

This is Holly’s first litter and while she was confused at first, she has turned out to be a very dedicated and attentive mama. Her only real problem was she didn’t understand that she needed to toilet the kittens by licking their butts to make them pee and poop (I know, eww). We were having to do this ourselves a few times a day by rubbing their butts with a moist tissue (again, eww), when another breeder suggested putting a bit of butter on their privates to encourage Holly to do her job. Sure enough, after a few days of “butter butts,” Holly got the hang of it.

This may not be the weirdest thing we have ever done as breeders, but it comes close.

Anyway, since this is Hollywood’s first litter, we thought it only fitting to give her kittens temporary names inspired by Hollywood stars.

All of these kittens are reserved.

Katherine Hepburn (girl)

Ingrid Bergman (girl)

Hedy Lamarr (girl)

Danny Kaye (boy)

James Cagney (boy)

Greta Garbo (girl)

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Nov 02 2024

A bouquet of lilies

  • November 2, 2024

Tiger Lily’s kittens are out of the nest and have mastered the litter box at long last. Our normal process is to litter train the kittens while they are still in a very large puppy pen / nest, and once they use a litter box consistently they are free to roam about their room.

Lily had other ideas. She kept removing her kids from the nest and it quickly got to the point where we just removed the nest and let the kittens explore. Unfortunately, this led to a lot of “deposits” in corners, near near walls, or (more likely) in front of the door. The training technique is then to put a small litter box where they did the deed and transfer their stuff to it. Rinse and repeat until they eventually get the idea.

Sorry, that was probably more than you ever wanted to know about kitten poop.

Since this is Lily’s last litter, we decided to give her kittens temporary names from different types of lilies. Although, given the appetite of these kids, we briefly considered naming them after different species of piranha. They are seriously food-focused.

All of these kittens are reserved

Altaria (girl)

Brindisi (girl)

Brunello (boy)

Manipur (boy)

Anastasia (girl)

 

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Oct 06 2024

Five for Tiger Lily!

  • October 6, 2024

Five babies!

Tiger Lily gave birth to five lovely kittens on September, 17th, 2024. Mama and the babies are all doing well.  She had a little summer fling down in Connecticut this summer, and this is the happy result. The father, Flint, being somewhat removed from the birthing, is completely oblivious.

All of these kittens are reserved. 

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Sep 22 2024

All the drama

  • September 22, 2024

Tizzy gave birth to two kittens, Benjamin and Button, on July 26, 2024.  Logan, the father, is (as usual) unconcerned.

As deliveries go, Tizzy’s first was especially dramatic. She went into labor three days early and started delivering her babies in a felted cat shelter donut (scratch one un-washable felted cat shelter donut).  In her rush to get Tizzy situated in a proper nest, Marie fell and broke her nose and wrist. I rushed home, and by then Tizzy had given birth to her two kittens and I was able to take Marie to the hospital.

Meanwhile, being premature, the kittens were very small (98 and 67 grams). Worse, Tizzy was not producing enough milk so we had to feed the kittens formula every two hours. (Our friends and family stepped in to send us prepared meals and such to make our lives a little more manageable between the kittens and Marie’s injuries).

For about five days the kittens didn’t gain much weight and we didn’t hold out much hope for them. They started to lose interest in formula. We tried a different formula and a different food for Tizzy to help her produce milk. Either we came upon the right combination or Tizzy started producing enough milk, because they suddenly started gaining weight consistently, and didn’t even need formula anymore (for which our sleep cycles were very grateful!).

And here we are! They have grown into perfectly normal, healthy, outgoing kittens. They are very interested in people and run to the door when we enter their room. Meanwhile, Marie has mostly recovered from her injuries and is doing well.

Benjamin (boy) reserved

Button (boy) reserved

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Jul 09 2024

Violet is retiring and available

  • July 9, 2024

Violet has retired from breeding and is available to a new home. She is almost three years old and recently spayed.

As a show cat she earned the title of Supreme Grand Champion. At home she is very much a lap cat and especially enjoys bedtime snuggles. If you want a cat pressed up against you at night, she’s your girl.

While Violet can be a love muffin with people, her torbie-tude makes her a bit of a bully among other girl cats, so her ideal home is probably one where she is a single cat or with boy cats.

If you are interested in Violet, please email us at atlastcats@gmail.com and tell us a bit about your household and why you think she’d be a good match.

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Jul 05 2024

Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!

  • July 5, 2024

Queen Sara Saturday gave birth two girls (Laverne & Shirley) on April 16th, 2024. Logan, the father, still refuses to take responsibility for them. He should be proud, though, because when these girls were eight weeks old and introduced to the rest of the cattery they adjusted faster than any kittens we have ever seen,

Usually kittens will be a little overwhelmed when introduced to a new environment. They may hide a little or stay on one side of room. But not these two girls! They were exploring everywhere, climbing the cat trees, and snuggling in our laps in no time.

Both of these kittens are reserved.

Laverne (girl), reserved

Shirley (girl), reserved

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