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susie_floThose of you who've already seen me squeeing on FB are aware that I am now officially mummy to two fluffy little girls. I've visited them twice in their foster home this week, and I will get to bring them home in the middle of next week (eeeeeeh!)
First up - Harriet. She is a petite little girl - the smallest of a litter of four, but by no means an underdog. In fact she is the feistiest and friendliest of the lot, and loves having play fights with her tabby brother who is almost twice her size. She is also unrelentingly cute. (Just really really cute.) And I am delighted to report that all of the things that seemed to be wrong with her at birth have disappeared... no brain damage, normal back legs and no real trace of a flat chest any more.
Next is Truffle. I fell in love with her from her photo, because she looks like a sad little bear made of caramel and chocolate. I do have a soft spot for kitties with grumpy lil faces. Also, I think she's also going to grow up into a beautiful, traditional tortie.
Truffle is much more timid than Harriet and was terrified of me when I first visited. She wouldn't come out from behind the bookcase at all. But tonight I was allowed to feed them and she was a little more relaxed and happy to caper around my legs and chase bits of paper. She wouldn't eat from my hand though - (Harriet was the only one who dared to do that).
I think Trufflle may come into her own when there are just the two of them, as the four kittens are so boisterous as a group that she often just hangs back when there are games afoot, putting out a tentative paw to prod one of the others every now and then. But when I coaxed her alone into a corner with Harriet, she was far more playful and go-getting.
I took a big fringey scarf with me today and left it in the room with them, to get them used to my smell. It was a hit! The mum (who is a total purry darling) would not stop sitting on it, and the kittens were having a ball playing with the fringes. Hopefully that will help to ease the shock of being moved, for my little girls.
I am so looking forward to bringing them home, though also a little nervous, as I will really have to work patiently at socialising them. One of the reasons the foster carer is keen for me to take them sooner, rather than later, is that they are living in a spare bedroom and not getting as much human contact as she'd like. (She works for the charity and has BILLIONS of other cats to look after and has to keep them all separate).
So anyway - these are my kittehs!!
First up - Harriet. She is a petite little girl - the smallest of a litter of four, but by no means an underdog. In fact she is the feistiest and friendliest of the lot, and loves having play fights with her tabby brother who is almost twice her size. She is also unrelentingly cute. (Just really really cute.) And I am delighted to report that all of the things that seemed to be wrong with her at birth have disappeared... no brain damage, normal back legs and no real trace of a flat chest any more.
Next is Truffle. I fell in love with her from her photo, because she looks like a sad little bear made of caramel and chocolate. I do have a soft spot for kitties with grumpy lil faces. Also, I think she's also going to grow up into a beautiful, traditional tortie.
Truffle is much more timid than Harriet and was terrified of me when I first visited. She wouldn't come out from behind the bookcase at all. But tonight I was allowed to feed them and she was a little more relaxed and happy to caper around my legs and chase bits of paper. She wouldn't eat from my hand though - (Harriet was the only one who dared to do that).
I think Trufflle may come into her own when there are just the two of them, as the four kittens are so boisterous as a group that she often just hangs back when there are games afoot, putting out a tentative paw to prod one of the others every now and then. But when I coaxed her alone into a corner with Harriet, she was far more playful and go-getting.
I took a big fringey scarf with me today and left it in the room with them, to get them used to my smell. It was a hit! The mum (who is a total purry darling) would not stop sitting on it, and the kittens were having a ball playing with the fringes. Hopefully that will help to ease the shock of being moved, for my little girls.
I am so looking forward to bringing them home, though also a little nervous, as I will really have to work patiently at socialising them. One of the reasons the foster carer is keen for me to take them sooner, rather than later, is that they are living in a spare bedroom and not getting as much human contact as she'd like. (She works for the charity and has BILLIONS of other cats to look after and has to keep them all separate).
So anyway - these are my kittehs!!
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Date: 2010-10-11 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-10-11 09:02 pm (UTC):-)
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Date: 2010-10-11 09:12 pm (UTC)Your cat lady sounds like the cat lady Mapp and Lucia came from. Plus it sounds like your girls are already on the way to being socialised so fingers crossed it won't take long - but if it does it will be so worth the wait - I'm typing this with a Mapp on the floor by my feet :-)
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Date: 2010-10-11 09:24 pm (UTC)I did feel comforted by how much less scared Truffle was today, compared with a few days earlier. Mind you, the cat lady says they will both be little terrors. Apparently Harriet bites her toes and Truffle is going to be a minx ("naughty torties" is a very real thing, according to her!)
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Date: 2010-10-11 11:38 pm (UTC)*cuddles kittens*
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Date: 2010-10-12 09:05 am (UTC)(I took 2 weeks off when I got CJ & Josh, but then I did have to introduce them to old blind cat so there had to be a lot of supervision during the initial encounters)
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