It’s never too early

It’s never too early to teach your young charges about the joys of Starbucks, even if all they’ll ever get to experience is the paper bag:

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The above is a photo of the kittens playing in their Rubbermaid container, which I use as a sort of “playpen”.  I won’t be able to do it for very long, because they’ll soon be able to jump out, but right now they just love it when I put them in there to run around, play with toys (and bags), and wrestle.  Now, I know we’re not supposed to mix the kittens with our other household cats, but the kittens have had two fecal tests turn out negative, and all our other cats are indoor cats with all their vaccinations.  Because of that, I’ve allowed Frank to hang out in the kittens’ room, as he’s the only adult cat who shows any interest.  Not only does he show interest, he seems downright fatherly towards the kittens, leading me to believe that he fathered a few litters of his own during his former days on the street.  He grooms the kittens, plays gently with them, and tonight he climbed into their playpen and they all had a nap together:

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I do supervise Frank when he’s with the kittens, but wow, he shown himself to be surprisingly gentle and responsible with them.  I’ve read that male cats help raise their litters, and I’ve read that male cats will try to kill their litters (to prevent competition), but Frank’s attitude causes me to think that the former is probably most accurate.

I’ve got one last photo to post today.  We bought the kittens a little fleece “car”, which was designed for ferrets but which is the perfect size for our little guys right now.  While you can’t see the details in this picture, the cats are napping in a little fleecy Volkswagon Beetle car, complete with plastic windshield:

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It’s been a rather momentous day around here, as we sold one of our biggest/most popular websites.  We came up with the idea for the site about three years ago, and the project grew so large that we decided to sell it, because it was just too big for us to devote time to.  I’ll tell you what the website is after the sale is completed, as right now we’ve just started the sales process via Escrow.com and I don’t want to jinx anything.  I’ve had mixed emotions about selling the site because I’ve put so many hours into it over the last few years, but it’s the right thing for us to do, and hopefully we’ll be able to use the funds from the sale to explore bigger and better options.  We’ve got a couple of hundred different websites floating around the Internet, but this is the first one to leave the nest.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 01/25 at 12:06 AM

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  1. My son fosters kittens for our local Humane Society.  He own big tom, named Jimmy, often helps care for the little ones.  It is amazing to watch. 
    Congrats on the pending sale of one of your websites.  I have built two of my own and I know the hours that are put into their creation.  Hope all goes well with the sale.

    Posted by Simply Coll  on  01/25  at  07:43 AM

  2. They are just so adorable.  I love all of their little fuzzy faces peeking out of the car.  The changes in Frank since you first took him in are nothing short of incredible.  :)

    My fingers are crossed for a smooth sale and transfer of your website!

    Posted by Expat  on  01/25  at  04:27 PM

  3. Those kittens are getting so big and too cute.  There should be a law passed.  “No kitten shall be too cute and no cat shall have too much fun.”  My cats have dedicated their lives to eating, sleeping, grooming and having fun.  I, on the other hand, have dedicated my life to the occupation of cat slave, serving their every need.  I try to maintain my human self-esteem by reassuring myself “I am the one in control here.”  But I’m not.  I’m not.  I’m a cat slave, lowly and without status outside of my cats.  I’m ok with this.

    Posted by Jody  on  01/25  at  07:18 PM

  4. What a surprise about Frank, eh?  I gotta tell you, I was surprised about Toby’s “fatherliness” or whatever when Satchel came along.  But I doubt that he fathered some litters before I adopted him, unless he was a little boy slut.

    I love your new kittens and the softer side of Frank :)

    Posted by celine  on  01/26  at  02:39 AM

  5. I posted a link to you on Caturday. Interested in hearing more about your web work and the kittens. I was looking for the beginning of the kitten story in the archives.

    Posted by zuleme  on  01/27  at  06:42 AM

  6. Hi Zuleme!  I love “Caturday”, which is in my Blogroll list.  Thanks for linking back.  The kitten stories all start on December 16th, 2005.  Here’s a link to the first one, and you can use the links on the sidebar calendar, or the “next” links at the bottom of the entry to scroll through the rest of them.  Perhaps I should put them all in their own category (heh, “cat"egory) one day.

    http://www.theblogpound.com/index.php/weblog/comments/kitten_invasion/

    Posted by Leigh-Ann  on  01/27  at  11:58 AM

  7. The kittens are adorable; I’m especially partial to the little Siamese having four of our own.  And what a nice fellow Frank is.

    Posted by srp  on  01/27  at  07:41 PM

  8. Hi there, SRP—I loved looking at the photos of your cats on your blog.  The cat with the marble blue eyes is just amazing looking!

    Posted by Leigh-Ann  on  01/30  at  01:39 AM

  9. I just love that last picture of your beautiful kittens! How wonderful kittens are. Lucky you!!

    Posted by Debra  on  01/31  at  10:06 AM
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