Two week old kittens. If they’re not sleeping, they’re eating.
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Jan 01 2012
Happy New Kittens!
Well, this was an interesting way to spend New Years Day. Nutmeg began giving birth this morning and squirted out four cuties in rapid succession (we don’t call her “Machine Gun Megs” for nothing). Then she started to have trouble with Number Five. Try as she might, it wouldn’t come out. We ended up taking her to the animal hospital where she had to have Caesarean section. The kittens are supposed to come out feet first (fronts or backs) but Number Five scrunched his arms against his sides and wasn’t going anywhere. He didn’t survive, nor did Number Six behind him (since Five was blocking the way). It happens, but it sucks.
After an exhausting day Nutmeg and the kittens are home and doing well. The kittens are especially appreciating the easy nipple access from Meg’s shaved belly. Meg is very protective of the kittens, as usual, but we lured her away long enough to get a picture of the kitten cluster.
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Dec 28 2011
Count the kittens!
Normally when our vet x-rays an expectant mother she can give us a definitive count of how many kittens to expect. But things are so crowded inside Nutmeg that all she’ll commit to is “five to seven.” Looking at this, I can’t say I blame her.
As usual, the dark stuff is just poop.
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Dec 24 2011
The “Occupy Couch” Movement
We’ve let the kittens out of the nursery and into the main part of the house so they can learn to socialize with other cats (and get more time with us, naturally). Needless to say, they are making themselves at home…
Abigail
Tipper has found her place in the sun.
Jackie-O
Bess is in Feisty Mode!
Bess is in Cute Mode!
Ladybird looks like she’s preparing for a career in modeling…
Not to be outdone, Tipper shows she can do Cute Mode, too.
Abigail vs. Chair. The Chair won.
Sometimes we play. Sometimes we groom. Sometimes we can’t tell the difference.
Oh, hi! Were you watching us? We weren’t doing anything…
Finally tuckered out. For now…
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Nov 26 2011
Faster than a speeding sleigh
We were taking pictures of the kittens for this year’s Christmas card, and briefly considered using this sequence. Cooler heads prevailed, but here it is for your enjoyment.
Yeah, posing kittens is easy.
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Nov 19 2011
Posers
Well, the kittens are still a little young to be very cooperative when we take pictures (they want to look at everything except the camera) but we stuck to it and are proud to present the First Lady Litter….
Bess (Truman) Δ
Abigail (Adams) Δ
Ladybird (Johnson) Δ
Tipper (Gore — should have been First Lady…) Δ
Jackie-O Δ
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Oct 30 2011
They plump when you feed ’em
It’s amazing how big those kittens get after a few days. They look like plump little furry sausages. Maybe we’ll name the Bratwurst, Kielbasa, Andouille, Knackwurst, and Chorizo.
Okay, maybe not.We have a rule about not naming kittens after food, no matter how tasty they look.
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Oct 27 2011
Maybe’s Babies
Maybelline gave birth to five big kittens on Tuesday morning! They quickly proved to be more mobile than the usual litter. One of them crawled out of the nest within minutes and we had to put up the barrier. These beasties were a little late, so they must have used the extra gestation time productively…
This is the look that either says, “I am a content mother.” or “Do they ever stop eating? I think they’re draining my life force!”
The usual kitten cluster.
Maybe we’ll call this one, “Pumpkinface!”
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Oct 24 2011
Did you get my good side?
Time to get some pictures of the Patootie-Pumpkin litter before they go to their new homes! This sounds like an easy enough thing, but there is a certain technique, you see. You can’t take pictures right after a meal, because at that point they’re all zipping around and all you get are pictures of blurs. The timing has to be right, somewhere between “Rocket” and “Nap/coma.”
Smudge made it easy by just sitting on top of the cat tree and holding still.
Spot! Just hold still for one… more… second. Okay, the real trick is to take a lot of pictures, because the one you thought came out good and looks great on the little camera LCD turns out to be blurry when you look at it on the computer.
It was so much harder in the old days when we made web sites by taking Polaroids, gluing them up on pasteboard and pointing a webcam at them. Okay, I made have made that one up. We actually chiseled the web sites into stone tablets.
Notspot (a.k.a Spotless, a.k.a. Dash) was about thirty seconds from a nap when I took this.
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