I'm feeling grateful for my kitties today!
I haven't posted here about my cats in WAY too long. Our household of kitties is down from 4 to 2. The user pic was taken in 2006, shortly after acquiring our 4th cat, Cloudy. All 4 cats were on our bed, in the apartment we had back then, in SE Baltimore.
We had to re-home our male, Cloudy (grey short-hair around 5 years old), this past July due to territorial issues (he was terrorizing our Niles), and our Louisa (we had her for 11 years, she was in her teens)had to be euthanized this past September. :(
We now have Niles who is 11, and Kuro who is around 6 or 7. Niles is our Maine Coon beautiful boy, and Kuro is our pretty black mama cat with a white star on her chest. She came to us already pregnant in 2004. She went into labor in my lap, gave birth to 4 kittens on my bed (which I took photos of and also videotaped), and then overnight she had 2 more kittens in my closet. That was on December 18th of 2004. We were fortunate in being able to place all 6 kittens with friends.
I am so grateful for my furry babies. Niles is my son Matthew's kitty, and he also sometimes comes upstairs to spend time with me. Kuro is my cat, she pretty much follows me around the house and wants to be wherever I am. When I am away, my boyfriend Gerry says that the cats follow him around and meow at him, as if to say, "Where is the woman?" When I come home after a few days or more away, Kuro greets me at the front door, throws herself down on the floor, and grabs onto the carpet and pulls herself along, stretching out so I can give her tummy rubs. Both Niles and Kuro are such loves. They sometimes will groom and/or cuddle up to nap together, but sometimes the grooming sessions quickly devolve into skirmishes. Niles almost always loses these, and ends up being the one run off the bed.
I'm going to attach some photos of these goofballs. Enjoy!
We had to re-home our male, Cloudy (grey short-hair around 5 years old), this past July due to territorial issues (he was terrorizing our Niles), and our Louisa (we had her for 11 years, she was in her teens)had to be euthanized this past September. :(
We now have Niles who is 11, and Kuro who is around 6 or 7. Niles is our Maine Coon beautiful boy, and Kuro is our pretty black mama cat with a white star on her chest. She came to us already pregnant in 2004. She went into labor in my lap, gave birth to 4 kittens on my bed (which I took photos of and also videotaped), and then overnight she had 2 more kittens in my closet. That was on December 18th of 2004. We were fortunate in being able to place all 6 kittens with friends.
I am so grateful for my furry babies. Niles is my son Matthew's kitty, and he also sometimes comes upstairs to spend time with me. Kuro is my cat, she pretty much follows me around the house and wants to be wherever I am. When I am away, my boyfriend Gerry says that the cats follow him around and meow at him, as if to say, "Where is the woman?" When I come home after a few days or more away, Kuro greets me at the front door, throws herself down on the floor, and grabs onto the carpet and pulls herself along, stretching out so I can give her tummy rubs. Both Niles and Kuro are such loves. They sometimes will groom and/or cuddle up to nap together, but sometimes the grooming sessions quickly devolve into skirmishes. Niles almost always loses these, and ends up being the one run off the bed.
I'm going to attach some photos of these goofballs. Enjoy!