NEW KITTENS
(Posted 2007-09-04 14:17:58 by ArchPaladin)

One of my coworkers sent an email to everyone in the company last Friday
saying that he found a couple of abandoned kittens and wanted to know if
anyone wanted to take them home.  As my fiancee, my roommate, and myself
all like kittens, we decided to take them.

We now have new kittens.  They are both small (about three pounds),
primarily black with some mottled orange spots.  One is male and the other
female.  There was a third, gray and white striped kitten, but this is
going to my fiancee's mother.

There is some concern that the new kittens will not get along very well
with the older cats that we have in the house.  Our roommate's cat in
particular is rather timid, and he may not defend his territory should the
little ones invade.  To avoid this from happening, I think my fiancee and I
will be playing with the kittens often so that they attach to us rather
than to our roommate (and thus invade her room).  No telling if this is
going to work or not.

I'm rather excited for new kittens.  Hopefully they will integrate well
into the household.

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There are 2 comments on this post:

Comment #1 by Krys ( auggiememnon@yahoo.com ) on 2007-09-04 16:50:43
Not that I wish kitten-invasion-of-privacy upon Zoe, but yeah, if they
attach to you guys they may be more likely to sleep in your room during the
day and night and such.

Right now they are asleep on the couch downstairs on Nicole's soft blanket.
 They had both curled up to sleep on my lap while I watched 12 Monkeys. 
Prior to that, the boy was asleep on my desk, much to Auggie's dismay.  He
got really close to the kitten a couple times to smell it while it slept,
sniffed it, then grumble-hissed and laid down to watch it.  He seems to be
okay with the kittens not in the room (and he's YET to discover that there
are two of them and not the one he's interacted with) so hopefully he'll
retain control of my room, or at the very least assert dominance over this
room, when kittens inevitably invade, like he sort of did with the boy
kitten earlier.

They are both little purrballs. ^_^

Comment #2 by ArchPaladin ( blog@archpaladin.net ) on 2007-09-05 14:19:37
Indeed they do purr.

I like cats that purr - I think this comes from both Garfield and Felix
being purring cats.  I hope it keeps up as they get older.