July 2013 archive

The other kind of Maine Potatoes

Pippi’s kittens are growing fast and plumping up nicely, as kittens usually do.  As you can see, they are well into what we call “the Potato stage.” That’s a technical term.

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Poised and perplexed

Okay, we took some pictures of Finoa’s kittens today and give very different impressions. One of them loved the camera and was very cooperative: As for the other… “Deer in the headlights” is more like it. Which is the boy and which is the girl? Good question!  If I had to guess I’d say the …

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No Drama Mama

Pippi gave birth to five beautiful kittens on Wednesday. Like her first litter she was a couple of days early, but the birth was otherwise not dramatic. That’s how we like it! Like most kittens they went from birth to the nip in no time flat. Marie was right. Breeding a red girl with a …

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X-Ray Vision

Well, we already knew that Pippi is fertile as a turtle, and now we know that Rigel’s swimmers can pull their own weight.  We think Pippi will give birth to five (maybe six) kittens later this week. However, although Pippi is red and Rigel is blue, Marie insists that this will not result in purple …

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Maybe we’ll call them Yin and Yang

Fiona’s kittens are plumping up nicely!

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