Brainded of cute

[susie_flo]

Oh dear fiends, please forbear.  At some point in the future, I will remember how to talk like a grown up, about something other than kittens, but for now...

sara_lou  and Phil came to visit the girls last night.  When Sara saw Harriet for the frst time, she gasped at how small she is, which really doesn't come across in the photos I've posted.

So it may help to point out that Harriet's little head is about the size of a small tangerine, and her entire body is about the size of one of my shoes (ladies size 3, which my sister refers to as "dolls' shoes").  Truffle is longer and taller - probably more like a ladies' size 5 ankle boot, but her head is as tiny as Harriet's and she has even daintier paws. Overall she has a more graceful, willowy shape.

Most people fall instantly in love with Harriet because she is off-the-scale cute, with that extreme kitteny shape, inquisitive head tilted on one side and paws that look too big for her body.  It's impossible not to scoop her up every time she comes near.  Poor little Truffle-bear is easier to overlook, being the quiet, understated one with a sad face, slinky posture and brown bear-eyes.  But I love her gentle nature and silky soft fur, and the way she purrs as a knee-jerk reaction to being stroked or picked up, before she works out that you tricked her into it and puts on a look of disgruntlement.  (Natalie and Phil have also both declared soft spots for her.)

This morning both kittens made the mistake of being so cute in my vicinity that they had to suffer prolonged head-kisses before I could leave the house.  It's only fair, and I am suffering daily angst/jealousy at having to go to work and leave them with G all day... 

Oh, roll on Saturday morning!

Comments

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Naw! I hated leaving the house when Bonnie was a kitten. These days Clyde stops me from leaving by bringing one of his toys (a make up sponge or an ear plug) for me to throw for him. He doesn't bring them back, he just likes to catch them like a goalkeeper.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Cute! My two tend to stand at the top of the banister, watching me go downstairs to the front door ('tis painful!)

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

Josh (icon) will play fetch - bring a toy to be thrown and then retrieve it. It's cute, apart from when you're trying to do something (eat, read, etc) and then it's annoying!

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Bonnie retieves, Clyde just bats it away and then looks at you with a 'go ad get it then' expression. That's annoying!

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous cat btw.

[gylfinir.livejournal.com]

Us madcatladies have to stick together, you know.

Aw! They sound unbearably cute! MOAR please!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Hooray for madcatladies!
:-)

[sara-lou.livejournal.com]

Such a shame they just wouldn't play Puss-In-Boots though. ;-)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I know... that lil Harriet is SO contrary, and she would have fit perfectly inside your boot.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Aw, you're in catlove. I bet you're a brilliant human for them.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

They can wrap me round every paw. (I fear my future as slave to a pair of spoiled fluffy princesses.) :-)

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Just surrender to it. It's a happy place to be.

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

You are making me badly want kittens, but Vienna would never forgive me. (He'd also eat them.)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I am in shameful look-at-my-kittens mode!
I'd never have been able to get them while Jess was alive, because she was so much of an only-cat. (A most annoying trait, it has to be said!)

[r0ck3tsci3ntist.livejournal.com]

I want pics!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I fear you will one day seek escape from cat pics on my journal...

But in case you missed these, here are some from a few days ago:
http://the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com/96514.html

[r0ck3tsci3ntist.livejournal.com]

I apologize for my terribly rude and demanding comment, it's just that there's not such thing as too many kitten pictures as far as I'm concerned. ;)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

:-) I couldn't agree more! These two are little devils to try and photograph, because they never stop running around. But I shall persevere at the weekend... for the greater good of teh interwebz.

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

I am suffering daily angst/jealousy at having to go to work and leave them with G all day...

I only took time off when we got our 2 'cos I had to supervise their introduction to old blind cat Lex. Really. Nothing to do with getting to spend all day playing with kittens... :)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I managed to get a Thurs and Fri off, which meant 4 solid days in a row when they first moved in. But now they're out of their shell, it's even more frustrating! (I am merely thankful for kittencam)

[steer.livejournal.com]

I only took time off when we got our 2

Heh... caternity leave?

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

I don't think even the Civil Service offer that yet... :)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I would so love to see kittencam - I'd be so engrossed in kitten gorgeousness I wouldn't notice anything else.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

If you have skype, email me your skype address and we can try and organise some kittehcam for the weekend :-)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

That would have been lovely but alas we don't have it :-(

I might try and video Mapp and Lucia's response to my latest toy - a thing called boo-boo bat from M+S which squeaks and rolls along the floor, it ranges from full on bog brush to Lucia nonchalantly chewing it's ear.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see the bogbrush reaction. Youtube beckons...

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

What's the betting that as soon as I switch the camera on both of them decide to curl up and go to sleep and pretend it isn't happening?

I also got some batshaped fairy lights yesterday - I love this time of year for buying tat, it's when all the best stuff is out.