Wordless Wednesday.....

(how exactly can that be comfortable???)

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Couple of quick things:
Posting may be sporadic the next few days....but lots of pics next week.

Please purr for our Frito boy. He hadn't been feeling well at the store so mom took him to the rescue's adoption center yesterday to see the v-e-t. He was running a fever and is now up there on meds. We know he is in good hands, but just one more thing for mom to worry about. Of course, he was feeling ok enough that when they tried to give him some fluids under the skin, he bit the v-e-t. MOL

Both Cookie and Samoa have applications. Cookie will go home next week since mom can't get coordinated with her new family before leaving. Though mom is trying to reach our friend Miss Beckie to coordinate things so Cookie can go home before that.

And....Samoa went home last night. Nice family, 3 year old toy poodle (won't that be fun...snort), and twin 11 year old girls. Poor Samoa isn't gonna know what hit him. This is there first cat but mom told them that after the dog and kids, the kitten will be easy.

Wordless Wednesday..... (or not)

(umm - you MAY want to turn down your volume - just sayin')

right to left:

Orbit, Aurora, Hubble and Nasa

halp!!!  kitten down!!!
not sure about which black kitten is which,
but we think that is Corona on the bottom of the pile

So, Rapuzel is such a good mommy. We know some of those kittens (we suspect the 2 black and the black and white) aren't hers and some of them are hers, but she doesn't seem to care. The only thing that really cracks mom up is that if Rapunzel is chilling outside the bed and one of the kitts gets out, she doesn't seem very motivated to get the kitten back in. Maybe cause in the week they have been here, she has realized that our mom is well trained and will come pick up screaming kittens. MOL

Mom is pretty sure about the 4 males, 4 females thing.  Here is the breakdown and names (if you have a suggestion for a name, let us know, this isn't set in stone quite yet except for Rocket):

   black and white - male - Rocket

   gray and white - female - Orbit

   black - male - Sputnik

   black - female - Gemini

              (can we get an "amen" that we got one of each gender for the same color)

   brown/white tabby (spot on her nose) - female - Corona

   brown/white tabby - female - Aurora

   buff tabby - male - Hubble

   buff tabby (more white on his face) - male - Nasa

and the answer is.....

OK - so it really wasn't MUCH of a puzzle...at least not around here.  :) Though several people guessed it was us....um - there are only 7 of us total....so close, but no treat for you.  MOL

The cat advocate at the shelter went to a neighboring county (the same one that gave us Daisy) and brought back 3 moms with various kittens. The shelter didn't have any info on the mom we got....mom thinks she is pretty young. The other shelter named her Rapunzel and our shelter is keeping the name. We do know that all three moms have their own kittens plus orphans. Which is how we got this:

hey lady...what is with the flashy box thing???

Yep - there are 8 little heads in there. The estimate is they are about about 14 days old today. However, mom suspects based on open eyes and size, the 2 black kittens and the tuxedo may be the orphans are are a couple days younger.  Rapunzel is a good mom - if not already a bit tired of this many kittens.  :)  But she is a good momma cat and is taking good care of them - they are clean and have stuffed bellehs. Mom picked up one kitten the other day and he SCREAMED and Rapunzel just gave mom this "you gonna put that back now?" expression. The first couple of days there was some hissing at mom by the kitts, which cracks her up.

We have 4 boys and 4 girls. Once again, subject to mom changing her mind.  hahaha

That mom kinda looks like Cookie - mom was laughing when she picked up this crew last week. Normally the shelter names the kittens, but since they are pretty young and there were lots of them, they are letting the foster families name the kittens. Mom is thinking about a space theme: Aurora, Corona, Gemini, Hubble, Nasa, Orbit, Rocket and Sputnik. It appears we have pairs this time around too: pair of black, paid of tabby with white, pair of buff and white tabbies and pair of tuxies - one black one gray.  Everyone finally has their eyes open. The black tuxie is gonna be trouble - he can get out of the bed and once he does he SCREAMS about it. Mom has had to put him back more than once.  Mom will have to sit down with a piece of paper and a pen in their room in order to remember which color is which gender.