Wednesday, January 25, 2006 , evening

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 08:06 AM
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