Damn it!!!!!!

[3113]

Smudge didn't make it.

Pet Critter for us

Damn it.

 

[SeaCat]

Pet Critter for us

Damn it.

I already have petted her for most of the evening. She is staying very close to her kittens and while she is allowing me to pet and even hold them she doesn't allow them out of view.

I can only think, and this is me, that if I had started trying to feed Smudge earlier then things might have worked out. (Unfortunately I didn't so we shall never know.) Who knows?

We do still have thre very healthy kittens though. One is Black and White like it's mother and the other two are a dark rust brown. (One has boots.) All have their eyes open and are quite vocal, but they seem to quiet down when either my wife or I pet them or hold them.

Critter for her part is being the good mother and has them in a kind of nest. The neat thing is that on their first night here she hid them in a corner where we couldn't get to them but now she has them in a plastic Tote that is laying on it's side in the middle of the room. (She had dragged a towel partialy inside it for them to lay on so I slid the towel the rest of the way in.)

The neatest thing about her is how neat she is. We had put a Litter Box in the room with her in the forlorn hope that she would use it and not the floor and I'll be damned if she hasn't been using it. Leads me to believe that she hasn't been wild for very long. Most likely scenario is that her previouse owners saw she was pregnant and decided they didn't want to deal with that and locked her out.

Cat

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Sorry about your losing the kitten, SeaCat. That we both know it was probably for the best isn't a whole lot of comfort, but the other kittens will help.

My experience with cats is that once the kitten's eyes open, the mother becomes a little less protective. Speaking of litter boxes, Siamese train their kittens to use the facility. My family had a Siamese for many years. Watching the momma (and poppa) cat train them was a total hoot.

http://www.catsinfo.com/breeds/siamese/siamese2.jpg

Often, the kittens would be facing twelve o'clock with their business ends pointed toward six. After making a token deposit, they'd turn around to proudly check on their productivity, then move on to the covering up portion of the procedings. More often than not, during the early stages of their training, they'd get disoriented and be facing three while furiously scratching away at a non-existent target in the vicinity of nine o'clock.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[SeaCat]

Sorry about your losing the kitten, SeaCat. That we both know it was probably for the best isn't a whole lot of comfort, but the other kittens will help.

My experience with cats is that once the kitten's eyes open, the mother becomes a little less protective. Speaking of litter boxes, Siamese train their kittens to use the facility. My family had a Siamese for many years. Watching the momma (and poppa) cat train them was a total hoot.

http://www.catsinfo.com/breeds/siamese/siamese2.jpg

Often, the kittens would be facing twelve o'clock with their business ends pointed toward six. After making a token deposit, they'd turn around to proudly check on their productivity, then move on to the covering up portion of the procedings. More often than not, during the early stages of their training, they'd get disoriented and be facing three while furiously scratching away at a non-existent target in the vicinity of nine o'clock.

Rumple Foreskin

I thank you my friend and I hope that Critter does teach the little ones how to use the litter box.

Having the other kittens is a help. My wife took Smudge dying hard. (Hey she was a fighter, she hung on that long.)

The pic. you posted is great by the way. Those are SealPoints. One of our original two is a Reverse Seal Point. (Dark brown with the white boots, blaze and muzzle.) The only Siamese I like better is the AppleHead or Egyptian. The Black ones whose fur looks like oil.

Cat

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Damn, damn and double damn.

As some of you know I had a half wild cat take up residence in my carport/garage not so very long ago. She was more than just friendly and more than a little pregnant. Well a week ago she had her kittens, four of them.

She was staying in a box out in the garage and everything was going well. My two cats were slowly getting used to her scent on us and seemed to be accepting her being around. (They have been nose to nose through the screens more than once without the usual hissing and yowling.)

Tonight, about half an hour ago I was sitting at the computer and heard one hell of a racket outside. when I went outside to see what was going on I was confronted by a very unhappy Mamma Cat barely holding off a rather large Raccoon.

For the one time in my life I was happy about my being lazy and not putting the yard tools away after using them yesterday. With some very creative use of a set of garden shears and a small mallet there is now a very dead raccoon floating down the Intercoastal.

I now have a very nervouse and unhappy Mamma Cat and kittens in the spare room. Three of the kittens seem to be in perfect health but the fourth, the only all black one doesn't seem to be doing very well. He has a small cut or puncture wound on the shoulder which doesn't worry me too much. What does worry me is his breathing which is labored. We shall see what happens I suppose.

Anyone going to want a kitten in a month or so?

Cat

You shoulda kept the remains of the raccoon, took it to the local butcher, had him grind it up into coon-burger, taken it home and fed it to the cats. IMHO.

 

[SlickTony]

What a lovely basketful of Siamese cats! My family raised Sealpoints for a while, during the 60s. However, the kittens' maternal grandmother had no papers, although she was a beautiful classic example of a Siamese, so they were never able to make much money off them.

Do they ever exhibit applehead Siamese in shows anymore? I haven't been to a cat show in ages, but the last one I was at, all the Siamese were the new kind, all attenuated. Like many other of the newer breeds of cat, they look like ET. Yet, you look in the back pages of Catfancy and you see dozens of ads for catteries where they breed the applehead or traditional Siamese.

Well, Sea Cat, it looks like you've got a mess o' cats now...

 

[SeaCat]

You shoulda kept the remains of the raccoon, took it to the local butcher, had him grind it up into coon-burger, taken it home and fed it to the cats. IMHO.

Nah, it is now fish food. Besides I wouldn't want to lower the cats taste in food that far.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

What a lovely basketful of Siamese cats! My family raised Sealpoints for a while, during the 60s. However, the kittens' maternal grandmother had no papers, although she was a beautiful classic example of a Siamese, so they were never able to make much money off them.

Do they ever exhibit applehead Siamese in shows anymore? I haven't been to a cat show in ages, but the last one I was at, all the Siamese were the new kind, all attenuated. Like many other of the newer breeds of cat, they look like ET. Yet, you look in the back pages of Catfancy and you see dozens of ads for catteries where they breed the applehead or traditional Siamese.

Well, Sea Cat, it looks like you've got a mess o' cats now...

Yep, looks like I am owned by six of the humans in fur coats.

Here's a pic. of the two originals. Bubba is the one closest to the camera. Smokey or CrackHead is the one on the floor. (BubbaShay is 17 pounds and Smokey is 7 pounds.)

Cat

 

[BlackSnake]

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[3113]

Critter for her part is being the good mother and has them in a kind of nest.

Momma cats are the most amazing moms. There's that story about the mother cat who rescued her kittens from a burning building--getting burned herself along the way. She kept going back in to get them and did rescue almost all of them. The Firemen found a home for her and her kits.

Leads me to believe that she hasn't been wild for very long. Most likely scenario is that her previouse owners saw she was pregnant and decided they didn't want to deal with that and locked her out.

Your saying that she wanted to come into the house makes me suspect you're right. My cat was like that as well. When we found her, we thought she was a wild cat, but the vet assured us that she was too comfortable with people and so likely was abandoned. She adapted very quickly to being a house cat and owning a pair of people (and bending us to her will) which truly wild cats never really do.

 

[rgraham666]

Aw shit.

I'm sorry Smudge didn't make it, SeaCat.

I'm happy Critter and the others are doing OK.

Sigh. Just like life.

 

[SlickTony]

What a handsome cat Bubba is. I've never seen anything quite like him.

 

[SeaCat]

Aw shit.

I'm sorry Smudge didn't make it, SeaCat.

I'm happy Critter and the others are doing OK.

Sigh. Just like life.

Yeah Same here.
It wasn't an easy time but we like Critter and the other kittens are getting past it.
Thanks.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

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I thank you for the wishes.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

What a handsome cat Bubba is. I've never seen anything quite like him.

Yeah Bubba is definately ummmm, different.

He's what is called a reverse color Sealpoint.

Cat

 

[Guest]

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

Sorry to hear about losing the kitten SeaCat. I'm sure the others are going to be spoiled. lol

 

[SeaCat]

LOLOLOLOL

I just went in to have a little chat with Momma Kitty as well as feed her for the second time today and clean out her litter box.

Damn but she uses that thing as much as the other two use theirs, together.

After saying hi to her and taking care of the litter box I went over to check on the three kittens. As I reached in and scratched/petted them one of them dcided it liked what I was doing and rested it's chin on my fingers for a minute. Then the little monster decided it was time to fight.

Picture this if you can. A little kitten much smaller than my hand and barely able to stand. Stand it did, tail held high it attacked with teeth and claws. Oh man I just had to laugh, talk about a set of big ones on this little kitten. (When I picked it up it stretched out in my hand and started to chew on my thumb.)

Now I am faced with a difficult decision. Names mean a lot to me and Critter just doesn't cut it for the mother. What to name her though? Anyone have any ideas? Any good names for a wild one? How about the kittens? (I'll be taking some pictures of them tomorrow so you can see what they look like.)

Cat

 

[Guest]

LOLOLOLOL

I just went in to have a little chat with Momma Kitty as well as feed her for the second time today and clean out her litter box.

Damn but she uses that thing as much as the other two use theirs, together.

After saying hi to her and taking care of the litter box I went over to check on the three kittens. As I reached in and scratched/petted them one of them dcided it liked what I was doing and rested it's chin on my fingers for a minute. Then the little monster decided it was time to fight.

Picture this if you can. A little kitten much smaller than my hand and barely able to stand. Stand it did, tail held high it attacked with teeth and claws. Oh man I just had to laugh, talk about a set of big ones on this little kitten. (When I picked it up it stretched out in my hand and started to chew on my thumb.)

Now I am faced with a difficult decision. Names mean a lot to me and Critter just doesn't cut it for the mother. What to name her though? Anyone have any ideas? Any good names for a wild one? How about the kittens? (I'll be taking some pictures of them tomorrow so you can see what they look like.)

Cat

Momma Kitty is a warrior, protecting her little ones from the much bigger raccoon.

Maybe that should figure into the naming.

 

[rgraham666]

Google up warrior maiden names, Cat. Valkyries and Amazons.

Never mind, I did it myself.

Valkyrie

Amazons

 

[SeaCat]

Momma Kitty is a warrior, protecting her little ones from the much bigger raccoon.

Maybe that should figure into the naming.

I'm thinking the same thing.

Cat

 

[3113]

I like "Critter" It suggests humble origins...but a willingness to fight.

I think they should all get wild-ish, backwoods/jungle names. And the one that attacked you..."Feral" or "Savage" perhaps? Is it a male? Doc Savage?

 

[SlickTony]

Ziba just made a precipitous rush across the living room, knocking over a trophy as she went, because she saw something out the window. Probably a lizard.

As for renaming Critter? Boudicca (Boadicea)? If you know how the hell you pronounce it, which I'm not sure of myself.

 

[SeaCat]

Ziba just made a precipitous rush across the living room, knocking over a trophy as she went, because she saw something out the window. Probably a lizard.

As for renaming Critter? Boudicca (Boadicea)? If you know how the hell you pronounce it, which I'm not sure of myself.

I just read about her and loved it. ritter is now renamed Boudicea.

I thank you.

Cat

 

[3113]

It depends on the spelling, but Boudicea is pronouced "Boo-di-ka"

The other way to pronounce the name is Boh-adda-fee-ah. But according to one Celtic site, that's incorrect. Unfortunately, it's the only pronounciation that you can actually hear on the internet, so maybe the Scottish/Celtic site is wrong? Pick which ever one works for the cat.

You know you'll be calling her "Boh" (Beau?) or "Boo" either way