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It was four kittens, not one. My neighbor was able to catch a few and I also used the Havaheart traps to catch the rest. Three of them now have new homes and it looks like my husband and I will be keeping the other.
Monstrous vet bills aside, it was lots of fun. I got to cuddle with baking-potato-sized kittens for most of August and good chunk of September.
posted by Sully6 at 2:24 PM on September 16, 2005
Monstrous vet bills aside, it was lots of fun. I got to cuddle with baking-potato-sized kittens for most of August and good chunk of September.
posted by Sully6 at 2:24 PM on September 16, 2005
By which I mean, of course, excellent news. You are assured good cat karma for the rest of your days.
If only I believed in karma...
posted by gramschmidt at 2:26 PM on September 16, 2005
If only I believed in karma...
posted by gramschmidt at 2:26 PM on September 16, 2005
What happened to mudbutt?
And what happened to jellicle's little precious?
posted by dness2 at 2:35 PM on September 16, 2005
And what happened to jellicle's little precious?
posted by dness2 at 2:35 PM on September 16, 2005
You're good people, Sully6, as people go.
posted by vraxoin's cats at 3:16 PM on September 16, 2005
posted by vraxoin's cats at 3:16 PM on September 16, 2005
you are a precious little angel, and one day you will be inducted into "cat heaven" where kittens float around on fluffy little kittyclouds and just purr and drink milk and roll in the sun and eat catnip and cat treats and lick themselves all day.
posted by naxosaxur at 3:19 PM on September 16, 2005
posted by naxosaxur at 3:19 PM on September 16, 2005
...want to...say nice things...but desiring to...snark...at naxosaxur's imagery...
Aw, heck. Good on ya, Sully6.
posted by cortex at 3:28 PM on September 16, 2005
Aw, heck. Good on ya, Sully6.
posted by cortex at 3:28 PM on September 16, 2005
...But don't even think of touching anything in "cat heaven", 'cause it's still not your property.
posted by Smart Dalek at 3:48 PM on September 16, 2005
posted by Smart Dalek at 3:48 PM on September 16, 2005
Cat heaven? Books to lay on, faces to stick your butt out at, tuna fish that leap out of rivers and oceans of fresh cream and fall apart into fresh sashimi, exploding dogs, mice that run forever and the hand of God that pets and scratches like no other.
posted by loquacious at 3:56 PM on September 16, 2005
posted by loquacious at 3:56 PM on September 16, 2005
Oh god, you just made me squeal.
Why did you have to do that?
(under no circumstances is my my girlfriend allowed to see those photos, understood?)
posted by NinjaPirate at 4:17 PM on September 16, 2005
Why did you have to do that?
(under no circumstances is my my girlfriend allowed to see those photos, understood?)
posted by NinjaPirate at 4:17 PM on September 16, 2005
Well done you. And wow...cuteness...overload....
posted by biscotti at 10:53 PM on September 16, 2005
posted by biscotti at 10:53 PM on September 16, 2005
Is this one the little munchkin you kept?
posted by Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs at 6:33 AM on September 17, 2005
posted by Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs at 6:33 AM on September 17, 2005
my cute-o-meter blew up and it's all sully6's fault
posted by matteo at 6:53 AM on September 17, 2005
posted by matteo at 6:53 AM on September 17, 2005
Cat heaven? Books to lay on, faces to stick your butt out at, tuna fish that leap out of rivers and oceans of fresh cream and fall apart into fresh sashimi, exploding dogs, mice that run forever and the hand of God that pets and scratches like no other.
You forgot plastic bags to make fun crinkly noises and newspapers to surf on.
Does anybody else's cats surf on newspapers? My cats love to bat the newspaper onto the living room floor and then run across the room with their two front paws resting on top of the papers.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 1:02 PM on September 17, 2005
You forgot plastic bags to make fun crinkly noises and newspapers to surf on.
Does anybody else's cats surf on newspapers? My cats love to bat the newspaper onto the living room floor and then run across the room with their two front paws resting on top of the papers.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 1:02 PM on September 17, 2005
Nice! Definitely good cat karma for the rest of your days.
I just took in a semi-feral stray neutered adolescent cat, that someone else abused, then abandoned. I have dubbed my new overlord Squish. He was clipped under the Feral Spay/Neuter Clinic, and just today he got back from his first ever vet checkup. Taking care of cats like this is rewarding, and I love doing it.
posted by spinifex23 at 3:23 PM on September 17, 2005
I just took in a semi-feral stray neutered adolescent cat, that someone else abused, then abandoned. I have dubbed my new overlord Squish. He was clipped under the Feral Spay/Neuter Clinic, and just today he got back from his first ever vet checkup. Taking care of cats like this is rewarding, and I love doing it.
posted by spinifex23 at 3:23 PM on September 17, 2005
Congrats, Sully6, and good show. We adopted our youngest as a stray kitten, and although he's had a few health problems, he's now happy as a clam.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 3:33 PM on September 17, 2005
posted by monju_bosatsu at 3:33 PM on September 17, 2005
Bless you, Sully6 ... these two strays (1,2) are oh so happy !!!
posted by ericb at 11:01 PM on September 18, 2005
posted by ericb at 11:01 PM on September 18, 2005
I hope they all find great homes! I just moved to a new apartment near Dayton OH and found a litter of 5 damn adorable kittens malnourished around the dumpster. But now I just have 5 kittens up for adoption. Ack! They eat so much!
posted by adzm at 3:02 AM on September 19, 2005
posted by adzm at 3:02 AM on September 19, 2005
So nice to read all these great stories about other cats being adopted.
adzm, I wish you luck finding homes for your brood. I just sent out a big e-mail to everyone I knew who liked pets or had cats and asked them to forward it to people they knew. Within a day, three of the kittens were claimed. (I also spoke with a pet photographer about sending a message to her clients and there were a few folks at my vet's office who said they could help. Maybe consider pet businesses in your area if you can't find homes otherwise.)
monju_boatsu, yep, that's the one we kept. He was the biggest of all the cats (weighing 3 lbs.* to his sibs' 1.5) and he was very skittish so he didn't attract a lot of admirers. My husband and I agreed to keep whomever we couldn't find a home for.
In the last few days, he's really come out of his shell. He is the yappiest, squawkiest cat I've ever encountered. No name yet, since all the members of the household can't come to an agreement.
*The vet explained to me that since females can be impregnated by more than one male, some kittens are conceived earlier and thus born more developed than their littermates. He's probably actually a few weeks further along than his sibs. Weird, huh?
posted by Sully6 at 9:42 AM on September 19, 2005
adzm, I wish you luck finding homes for your brood. I just sent out a big e-mail to everyone I knew who liked pets or had cats and asked them to forward it to people they knew. Within a day, three of the kittens were claimed. (I also spoke with a pet photographer about sending a message to her clients and there were a few folks at my vet's office who said they could help. Maybe consider pet businesses in your area if you can't find homes otherwise.)
monju_boatsu, yep, that's the one we kept. He was the biggest of all the cats (weighing 3 lbs.* to his sibs' 1.5) and he was very skittish so he didn't attract a lot of admirers. My husband and I agreed to keep whomever we couldn't find a home for.
In the last few days, he's really come out of his shell. He is the yappiest, squawkiest cat I've ever encountered. No name yet, since all the members of the household can't come to an agreement.
*The vet explained to me that since females can be impregnated by more than one male, some kittens are conceived earlier and thus born more developed than their littermates. He's probably actually a few weeks further along than his sibs. Weird, huh?
posted by Sully6 at 9:42 AM on September 19, 2005
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