More kitten photos

I can’t get enough of kitten photos, so here are a couple more I took earlier this evening:

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And one more:

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She’s become remarkably playful and adventurous in just 48 hours, and now doesn’t run from me when I enter the bathroom in which she’s confined.  She’s eating well, too, and plays by herself all day—she’s got a little ball with a bell inside that she likes to toss around and chase.  I let Eli the German shepherd stick her head in the bathroom to say hello and frankly, that was one brave kitten—she didn’t run away at all and the two of them touched noses.  The kitten is very delicate and feminine, a big contrast to our other female kitten, Bing (a big tomboy).  The kitten also makes a very odd sound—instead of a standard meow, she makes a squawk, like a set of old, rusted hinges.

I put a phone call in to the Starbucks barista who expressed interest in adopting from us, so I hope she’ll call back.  I’m a bit concerned because she suddenly no longer works at Starbucks, and her cell phone is disconnected, but I called her home phone number and left a message.  She was a very busy, ambitious person, so I’m sure she’s just taken a new job, and she wanted the kitten to live at home with her mother and grandmother.  If I don’t hear from her, I’ve also contacted a local rescue group which doesn’t have a shelter and uses foster homes to keep their available animals.  I’m offering to foster the kitten as long as the rescue group will screen adoptive parents.  I still keep hoping to find a second kitten outside, and my gut says there are more around (because of the amount of food being eaten from my porch), but I need some sort of remote video camera to catch them in the act.

Just in case anyone thinks I’ve forgotten our “old” kittens, here are the three of them, cuddled up for a nap.  They’re so large they rarely all sleep together as they can’t find a surface big enough so they can all squeeze in:

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Posted by Leigh-Ann on 05/14 at 10:32 PM

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  1. Oh, oh, oh! Isn’t she just scrumptious? Here’s hoping you fing her a loving home ASAP! She could really get to you.

    Posted by Diana  on  05/15  at  07:29 AM

  2. Oh my goodness.. she is adorable.  What a sweet face.

    Posted by Simply Coll  on  05/15  at  05:53 PM

  3. Diana, you must need another kitten by now—send me your address and I’ll send you a surprise wink

    You too, Coll—maybe a little bundle of fur will keep Bear on his slim and trim toes!

    Posted by Leigh-Ann  on  05/15  at  08:30 PM

  4. Awwww...she is ADORABLE! And brave. I hope you find her a home soon. If I knew Daphne would accept her, I’d say ship her here, honest! (I shipped a kitten to Canada, long story, and it was remarkably inexpensive.) Daphne is very bonded with Elvis the cat, they sleep together and everything. But I’ve had two female kitties here - one adult, one kitten - and she tried quite seriously to kill them. Maybe a gender thing.
    You cat with the horizontal stripes - that’s a neat stripe pattern.

    Posted by carina macdonald  on  05/16  at  12:14 AM

  5. How cute! She’s so precious. And brave, too.

    A prerequisite of any kitten we take in is that it can handle dogs.

    Hope you find her a lovely home soon, she so deserves one.

    Posted by prajantr  on  05/16  at  06:44 AM

  6. What a face! I wish I could take her, but I am looking after someone’s dog who isn’t cat friendly or unknown dog friendly for that matter :(

    Man, she is so cute! I can’t stop looking at that first photo with her smiling little pink mouth.

    Posted by Cheryl  on  05/17  at  10:37 AM

  7. Hello, found your blog through a maze of cat blogs. I guess her Highness will outgrow Rory soon enough—what about some other name? She could be Diana, but she is a bit fluffy for that… Could I suggest Sissy, after Austria’s beloved empress? She was beautiful, accomplished, rode and climbed mountains like the devil, and could throw a royal hissy fit without thinking twice!

    Posted by Agnes  on  05/18  at  09:06 AM

  8. Agnes, the kitten is so brave and adventurous we’d might as well name her Boadicea smile

    I’m quite sure she has a new home as of tomorrow, and I’m not sure if the new owners will rename her or not.  I’ll keep you posted!

    Posted by Leigh-Ann  on  05/19  at  07:57 PM

  9. Boadicea indeed! Thank you, you’ve really
    made my day! It gave me a chuckle which somehow turned into a belly laugh!

    I’ve read about her going to Philadelphia to study Veterinary Medicine. Congratulations to you, good luck to Her Highness, and a hat tip and kudos to your brother and sister-in-law!

    I’ve also read your post on health insurance. I have little to say from Europe about the general problem in the US. I am an avid reader of Krugman’s columns and an occasional reader of nyceve’s posts at Kos, but that is all. (Apart from a general grrr.)

    Germany, where I live, can be interesting, too, as there are lots of insurance providers and some look like they took lessons in managed health care, US style. (But, thank God, they are only beginners, and there is VERY strong customer protection here.)

    Also, Germans like to assign everyone to his/her pigeonhole—in my case, I was not eligible to be insured by the insurer for civil servants, even though I came to Germany as a PhD student employed by the state—but I was over 25 and a foreigner, which is a different category altoghether. So I ended up with a crappy insurer for au pairs and other short term foreign visitors that covered emergency care only. (It has changed since I got my degree and became a real civil servant. Hah.)

    I am writing all this because it helped discover a great natural antidepressant, St John’s Wort. (The Latin name is Hypericum [something]. In German it is Johanniskraut.] It IS comparable to Prozac, but without the bad side effects. The GOOD side effects: helps regulate heart and liver functions. And, like most herbs, it has an antibacterial effect. So I’ve been on St John’s Wort capsules ever since 1997.

    Does it grow in the US? Is the herb or its oil available commercially? Or in Canada or in the UK? Germans, bless their souls, are fantastic where herbal products are concerned, so there are at least 3 or 4 kinds of capsules on the market (some with dried and pulverised herbs, some with oil). They are really fond of their Johanniskraut…

    Hope you may find this gossip of some interest, and, once more, hat tips and kudos to everyone in the Rory affair!

    Posted by Agnes  on  05/21  at  07:54 AM

  10. Agnes, I just never had any luck with St. John’s Wort, and I’ve tried it a least a couple of times.  I find that the supplement “SAM-e” (S-adenosylmethionine) is helpful, but it’s so expensive that it doesn’t help save money.  It’s also one of those things where no long term studies have been done about side-effects, and it converts to homocysteine in the body.  My father has a blood disorder related to homocysteine levels (I need to have that genetic testing done, but again, expensive), so I’m a little wary of using SAM-e too often.  I really wish the St. John’s Wort helped me!  The Effexor I take really helps cut down on my anxiety, and helps a lot with low-grade pain.  I never stay on it for more than a year without taking at least six months off from it, just to give my body a break, and to ensure that it remains effective at a low dose.

    I could try St. John’s Wort oil and see if that works better for me than the powder.  I’ll have to see if I can buy it somewhere, first.

    I have some online friends in German (Leimen), and they’ve had to make a couple of trips to the hospital in the time I’ve known them.  I always assumed Germany had “state-provided” health care (as in Canada), but is it actually provided by the employer?  Where did you emigrate from?

    Posted by Leigh-Ann  on  05/22  at  08:14 PM
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