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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited March 2018

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    This is Elliott, the photo was taken by his foster carer. We are picking him up tomorrow, weather permitting (there is a snow forecast). He is 12 weeks old. We actually applied for a cat rather than a kit as we know kittens get homes easier than cats, but the cat charity matched us up with Elliott as we already have a cat Arthur (age 4.5) and Elliott is currently being fostered in a home that has 6 cats and shows no stress being around new cats. We have been told to keep Elliott in a separate room at first and only gradually introduce him to Arthur to give Arthur time to get used to the idea.

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  • EastcoastTS
    EastcoastTS Member Posts: 864
    edited March 2018

    Exciting, feelingfeline! A new kitten. What joy!!!

    Elliott is so adorable.

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  • kathindc
    kathindc Member Posts: 2,042
    edited March 2018

    Aww, Elliott is such a cutie. Love the name

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited March 2018

    What a beautiful kitten! We always segregate our fosters at first. We found our cat playing patty paw under the door with one foster. Decided they would get along fine. Have fun watching them play.

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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited March 2018

    Thanks. That is a lovely story about the patty paw kitties. We have had to put off collecting him until Tuesday due to heavy snow and gales. Second deep snow in a couple of weeks. Snow is rare here, most years we don't see any. Its quite an event when it happens and we have to pretty much close down everything as we are not equipped for it, our vehicles don't have snow tyres etc. Little Elliott is being fostered about an hours drive from our home. He will be worth the wait though.

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  • TaRenee
    TaRenee Member Posts: 464
    edited March 2018

    He likes it under the covers. imageimageApparently he doesn’t want to be disturbed in his fort. So he just stays in there till he is ready to come out. He’ll be back under there in the middle of the night too.

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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited March 2018

    awww

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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited March 2018

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    This is Elliott. He is quite timid but purrs like a lion. BIg paws on a tiny body. Makes me think he might be going to be a big cat. He has not met our cat Arthur yet. Elliott and his paraphanelia are locked in the dining room, Arthur has the rest of the house. Arthur seems relaxed but has definitely seen Elliott through the window from outside. Hoping for a happy, gradual introduction. It is not a bad thing to have Elliott confined to one room for a bit as he is so small he can hide so many places! We sometimes cant find him in the one room, it would definitely be harder in the whole house. My lovely old ladies Nina and Lakme (aka Beastie) died aged 20 and 18 in 2011, which means if you take 18 from 2011 last time I had a kitten was 1993, so I am bowled over how tiny he is. He is 12 weeks so old enough to have been adopted but he looks like an absolute baby to me.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited March 2018

    peek a boo, I see you! He’s a cutie 🤩

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited March 2018

    He is really adorable. You're right about it being better not to have to search the whole house. Big paws probably do mean he'll be a large cat.

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  • EastcoastTS
    EastcoastTS Member Posts: 864
    edited March 2018

    Beautiful eyes. I bet he really blossoms in your loving care. My rescues have. ;)

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  • riley702
    riley702 Member Posts: 1,600
    edited March 2018

    I'm a bad kitty mama. I totally spaced Pearl and Wren's 6 month mark. I was counting from when we got them instead of when they were born. So, huge shock and chagrin the other day when Wren went into heat. Facepalm. She's happy and confused, pulling herself along the carpet and purr-trilling to everyone and being friendly to people, animals, and objects. The adult cats treat her like she's drunk at a party and they're embarrassed for her. Pearl isn't in heat yet, but has been trying to hump Wren and seemingly a bit punchy herself. Finn is goofily confused by his sisters' behavior (thank God we got him snipped 2 months ago), and stares at them like he's wondering WTH? The vet said their next batch of surgeries is April 6 and she'll be out of heat within 3 to 5 days. So, the girls have a date with the doc. Pearl may very well go through heat herself by then. Wren has been more reserved than the others, so her rubbing up against me in bed and trilling at me is kinda fun, but I have apologized to her. Bad me!

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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited March 2018

    Funny! Arthur was humping the cushions when we first got him (stray aged 9 months) poor thing was being driven mad by his hormones urging him to mate. It seems cruel to give them an op but it is a balancing act - kinder for a domestic animal not to be driven mad by their own hormones, or get out and bring more homeless kittens into being when there are so many cats and kittens in shelters already looking for homes.

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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited March 2018

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    Elliott is beginning to make himself at home.

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  • CeliaC
    CeliaC Member Posts: 1,320
    edited March 2018

    Elliott is so adorable. Love those little tufts of fur at the top of his ears. He has eyes that I could easily get lost in. Lucky you and lucky him.

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  • Tappermom383
    Tappermom383 Member Posts: 643
    edited March 2018

    Elliott is such a handsome kitty! I love his coloring.

    MJ

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  • TaRenee
    TaRenee Member Posts: 464
    edited March 2018

    Riley, when my sweet Tacey went into heat the first time it was AFTER I had her fixed. She got up on my lap with her front paws on my shoulders and her back feet digging and kicking into my legs and crying Maaama. I was perplexed. She was so small that when they did the surgery they missed a few CELLS. Poor baby. We had blood work done and the vet was like... you are right! She’s in heat! So we had to have her fixed again. I felt like the worst kitty mama ever. (I know it wasn’t my fault, but the poor girl ended up getting fixed 3 times.) The vet was wonderful, even had another vet stand in with her in surgery the 2nd and 3rd times trying to make sure they got it all. Whew!

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  • CeliaC
    CeliaC Member Posts: 1,320
    edited March 2018

    TaRenee - Oh gosh, your poor sweet baby went through a lot to get fixed.

    Our big boy male cat Ben (now deceased) although fixed, used to try to "dominate & subdue" our female Ivy (now deceased) as if he still had everything in working order. He was a "street cat" before being in a no kill shelter, so I guess he still remembered the old days. Has anyone seen the TV commercials for Scooter the neutered cat? They make me laugh every time.

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  • riley702
    riley702 Member Posts: 1,600
    edited March 2018

    I love those ads!




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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited March 2018

    Those are really cute. Our volunteer T shirts at the shelter say foster, adopt, neuter, spay. A woman from S. Carolina bought one. She and her husband run a low cost spay and neuter clinic. Donations help them keep the price affordable at $20.

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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited March 2018

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    In my early 20's I lived in Islington (north London) for a year. There was a local feral cat TNR charity and I bought their sweatshirt advocating neutering (still have it) the above was the logo.

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited March 2018

    There was a feral TNR group here. Their t shirt said "sexless in Seattle until every cat has a home". This was when the film Sleepless in Seattle was popular.

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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited March 2018

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  • CeliaC
    CeliaC Member Posts: 1,320
    edited March 2018

    feelingfeline - I also lived in North London, in Muswell Hill, and remember Islington. DD was born at Whittington Hospital, which oddly enough, has a cat as an emblem.

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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited March 2018

    I think that's because of the famous Middle Ages London Mayor Dick Whittington. He was a real person, but had a cat which has become part of the legends surrounding the man and is just as famous

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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited March 2018

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    Statue of Dick Whittington and his cat on the Guildhall in London (snatched from Wikipedia)

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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited March 2018

    In case of interest to anyone: Vermont based small business Birds Be Safe which makes unique colourful collars for people to put on bird-hunting cats, (to make them more visible to birds), is up for a FedEx small business development grant. I have purchased Birds Be Safe collars so got an email about this.


    Its a public vote thing so if you are interested in voting for them it is at

    https://smallbusinessgrant.fedex.com/home/detail/31577ca3-449a-4fae-a4c0-8cca70130b3b#/gallery/detail/31577ca3-449a-4fae-a4c0-8cca70130b3b


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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited April 2018

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    Arthur(L) and Elliott(R). Elliott is a bit in the foreground so looks bigger than he actually is. He is still a baby at 14 weeks. Arthur is generally tolerating him well. Just the odd hisss when Elliott does (what kittens do) and pounces on Arthur's tail. For the most part he is taking the newcomer very well.

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  • Cowgirl13
    Cowgirl13 Member Posts: 1,936
    edited April 2018

    Beautiful kitties and beautiful photo.

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  • kathindc
    kathindc Member Posts: 2,042
    edited April 2018

    Feline, great shot of the boys!

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