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nightshade · #1 (**permalink**) 17-11-2006, 09:38 AM

The Lioness and I discussed having cats again (while I drove her to fetch TWO kittens from a cat rescue that she had arranged).These two ginger and white boys had been found abandoned on a building site
They are very young (weaned and tray trained,phew!) but extremely nervous,currently one is up the chimney,the other makes feeding forays from behind the dishwasher,pausing in mid-run only to look me over.The ginger and white(now with unattractive black highlights)is now busily looking for an escape route via the bottom of the cat litter tray(I am busy opening windows whilst holding my nose)
Oh the joys of sharing your home with a cat

Ollie · #2 (**permalink**) 17-11-2006, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by nightshade

The Lioness and I discussed having cats again (while I drove her to fetch TWO kittens from a cat rescue that she had arranged).These two ginger and white boys had been found abandoned on a building site
They are very young (weaned and tray trained,phew!) but extremely nervous,currently one is up the chimney,the other makes feeding forays from behind the dishwasher,pausing in mid-run only to look me over.The ginger and white(now with unattractive black highlights)is now busily looking for an escape route via the bottom of the cat litter tray(I am busy opening windows whilst holding my nose)
Oh the joys of sharing your home with a cat

You should try sharing your home with twelve cats!! and two large dogs, although I am fortunate in the fact that our litter trays are in the outside enclosure for them, so no close pegs for the nose needed. It's still me who usually ends up having to change the trays though

Talk about cat hairs in your tea, strewth, we get them everywhere apart from the beds. No cats or dogs allowed upstairs.
Roger

Beryl · #3 (**permalink**) 17-11-2006, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by nightshade

The Lioness and I discussed having cats again (while I drove her to fetch TWO kittens from a cat rescue that she had arranged).These two ginger and white boys had been found abandoned on a building site
They are very young (weaned and tray trained,phew!) but extremely nervous,currently one is up the chimney,the other makes feeding forays from behind the dishwasher,pausing in mid-run only to look me over.The ginger and white(now with unattractive black highlights)is now busily looking for an escape route via the bottom of the cat litter tray(I am busy opening windows whilst holding my nose)
Oh the joys of sharing your home with a cat

How super. I really love cats
Wonderful material for a humoroude poem there.

nightshade · #4 (**permalink**) 17-11-2006, 11:04 AM

Although they are both ginger and white and scared I call them Roland and Oliver after Charlemagnes heros.The sheer drive of the two personalities,the humour of
their antics,is certainly worth an ode or two
The names are not carved in stone anything above the run of the mill would be considered
Roland is darker shades than the paler Oliver and they were called Toffee and Fudge

Dorcas · #5 (**permalink**) 17-11-2006, 11:06 AM

aaaw how sweet - hours of fun

nightshade · #6 (**permalink**) 23-11-2006, 07:24 PM

The kittens have been renamed .....Hiss and Spit .....don't ask

mrs fish · #7 (**permalink**) 23-11-2006, 07:35 PM

Congrats on your new family members, I took a little ginger and white kitten in last october, it was in a bad way the mother had abandoned IT, I say IT because for six months we thought she was a he ( I thought all ginger cats were toms

) We called ours Pumpkin and we all love her to bits

Yours will soon settle in and make theirselves at home

smartie · #8 (**permalink**) 24-11-2006, 09:44 AM

Best of luck with the kittens. I fell for that line that two were easier than one as well

My two are now mercifully too old to do much more than watch the birds through the window, but this morning, while hoping for another sighting of my "goshawk" (see other thread), I saw 8 magpies stalking something in a tree two doors down. It turned out to be a young cat that lives with one of our neighbours and hasn't learned discretion yet. She's still there half an hour later, as are the magpies. Don't know how she's going to get out of that one. Might teach her a lesson.

Barbara · #9 (**permalink**) 24-11-2006, 05:04 PM

Great news on your two arrivals nightshade, I am sure they will settle down soon

I have two cats Socks who was six weeks old when I got her from the cats home at 6 weeks old and is as soft as a brush, loves to sit on my shoulder as I am typing on the computer our other one Brandy was rescued from my husbands place of work, she was a stray, 6mths old and pregnant. We used to travel 22 mile a day over the christmas period when the factory was closed to feed her, one day she managed to get under a decoiling machine and couldn't get out and my husband had to take the machine apart to get her out. When she had her kittens the cats protection league found homes for them and nuetured Brandy and we gave her a home. As soon as she arrived in the house she shot out of the back door and lived at the back of the garden for a week. Each day I moved her food nearer to our back door and then one day she plucked up the courage to come indoors. She hissed at my two other cats (I had two cats at this time). She is a lovely cat, she loves to be loved and stroked but try to pick her up no way

Please keep us updated with their progress it would be lovely to hear how your little new arrivals settle down in their new home

Barbara