October 5, 2005
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Kittens Abroad
Until
yesterday, adopted Albion had been the only one of Hilary’s kittens who
followed her outside when she went. Yesterday, when Doug opened
the door to let Mom out, everyone went out, except for Nemo (Auntie
Orange, whose mother, Greyfox’s cat Frankie, is also Albion’s
mother). Nemo just took a look out the door as usual and turned
back into the house. She might at least have gone out to baby-sit a bit, and help Hilary ride herd on the kits.Doug
followed the cats out and then ducked back in the house to ask me if I
wanted to come take some pictures of the kittens. I handed him
the camera, instead. All these shots are his.
At
first, Hilary was upset about all the kittens being outside, just as
she had been upset when they all started creeping out of the nest and
onto Doug’s bed, then again when they began tumbling off his bed and
wandering all over the house, and still even now whenever Koji pays too
much attention to any of her little ones.She is the nervous type and very protective. In the shot above,
I can imagine her saying, “Where are you going? Get back in the
house where you belong! Don’t you know there are eagles out here,
and foxes and lynx?!
In the foreground at right are “Al and Al,” Alice and Albion, who seem to
have a strong bond with each other. Cecil is above them, and
Beau, or Bobo, or Bobobo-bo Bobo-bo, is in the upper right corner.Granny Mousebreath was either asleep in the house or off somewhere
hunting, but Muffin was out there with the kittens. She doesn’t
appreciate the interest that Bobo and the others show in her tail.
There are five cats in the picture below. Do you see Muffin?
Everything had to be examined and investigated.
Hilary did her best to keep an eye on her kits.
But there was no way she was going to keep up with this wild bunch.
Comments (12)
I just love the super fluffy one… Alice is it? Great pictures. I just love kittens/cats. Thanks for sharing these. Have a good one.
I had to comment, since I am a “cat person”… those pics are awesome. One of the grey kittens looks a lot like my Pablo. If I can eventually find a way to get my pics loaded on the ‘puter, I’ll post a few of him.
The little white one is so pretty.
They look like they are being led somewhere…
i’m wondering which is the feline version of a post-baby-day headache…
they are so cute!i love kitties.
Awesome pictures.
It’s interesting to watch the different parenting styles in the cats. We’ve had mama cats who were super-protected, and we’ve had “whatever, I’m feeding them already” mamas. Last summer, we had three mama’s drop litters within a couple of weeks of each other, and we were freaking out…but the mamas? They just sort of took turns with the whole damn brood of them. That was wild, seeing six kittens, with three different mamas, all latched together on the various mama cats. Crazy.
Man, I love kitties, I would have 1000 if I could. So cute!
So absolutely precious! I saw Muffin rigth away! *laughs* I love Albion. You ever end up in WI wit hhim, let me know!
when my cat had her kittens she gave brth to them on my bed. it was disgusting. but we had to give all of them away.
Those are sure adorable kitten pictures. I’m not really a cat person but who can resist cute kittens?
I never would have seen Muffin in the five-cat picture if there hadn’t been another pic of her to help me recognize her.
AWW!
very adorable. it’s so exciting to see them explore and become hunters and playful furry balls of joy.
~megs