Saturday Morning Coffee Catch Up – Kitten Update

On By Erin @ Cracker Crumb LifeIn Uncategorized

Good morning everyone!! If you read here regularly, then you might remember that Billy surprised me with an orange kitten for Christmas! I just had to wait for her to be old enough to leave her mother to pick her up.

Well, in the meantime we decided maybe we should also adopt one of her siblings to save our senior cat Miso from the full onslaught of kitten play. So, we told our friend we were interested in two, and well, we got to bring our new babies home last night! Billy braved the snow and cold to drive over and pick them up, and Wyatt and I were waiting very anxiously for them to return.

About 15 minutes later, we heard the car door shut and Billy’s boots crunching up onto the porch. They were here! I let Miso sniff at them through the carrier for a minute, then we took them back to my office, where they will live until they are vaccinated and dewormed. Well, for as long as we can keep them there. We had a little escapee this morning..

Meet Mabel (orange) and Mouse!

Our friend Justin, who has been raising them since they were born in house the week of Thanksgiving after he took in a stray mama, said that Mouse is an explorer and Mabel is a cuddler. And so far it does seem like that is the case! They seem to be adjusting well to leaving their home and mom. They have eaten and used the litter box and and played and cuddled and slept – and that was all within the first hour.

The night was pretty quiet, we didn’t hear much out of them, and I think adopting two was a good idea. They curled up in their little bed and pretty much stayed there until I got out of bed at 6 am to use the restroom. When I came out, I looked into the room and saw them, waiting for me.

I tried to go back to sleep but it was game over. The little plaintive mews came from the room, and Miso’s interest was piqued, and she was prairie dogging to look over the barrier, and then I heard a scrabbling and up popped a small little gray head. Mouse. In seconds she had scaled the wall and plopped down into the hallway. Miso just sort of looked at her like “What in the world is this?” as Mouse made her way into the bathroom. So I got out of bed, scooped up our adventurer, and put her back in the office. Then I got a coffee and joined them, while they played and climbed on me and decided my phone and coffee were new toys. Now I am chilling with Wyatt and Billy is hanging with the kittens for a bit too.

It is definitely a change and something new to get used too, which we will. It will be a lot easier once we can let them roam around, but I want to make sure we don’t have them pass anything (like possible worms) to Miso. I am not sure if we will make it all the way to that appointment but we are going to try!

And that is our big news! Wyatt is a little apprehensive about them, but he will get used to them and love them as much as he does Miso.

They are adorable little balls of fluff, and I am so glad that their mother curled up on Justin’s porch that cold week before Thanksgiving, and that he let her in and let her stay, even after he knew she was a week from having babies. And he kept the mom and one of her babies too, so don’t worry, Mama cat is safe and happy too.

I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile!

20 thoughts on “Saturday Morning Coffee Catch Up – Kitten Update”

  2. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a kitten but I remember how often I laughed with Gypsy was a baby. They are both adorable — and full of it, it seems! I hope the deworming and such comes soon, especially if they are escapees! (The rapscallions!) Hopefully Miso does well with both of them. This is such fun!

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    1. This is my first time having kittens! All of my cats were 6 months or older when I got them. It is definitely so different!! They are so goofy. Miso is a little afraid and it makes me feel bad but she will get used to them. I am making sure she gets all of her Miso time and her routine is not disturbed.

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  5. “We had a little escapee this morning” 😂
    When we took Ponder and Esme home as babies (they had been dropped off at the zoo instead of the shelter, long story), I wanted to find a home for them as we already had four cats. We planned to quarantine them for a week as we did with all new cats, but Ponder escaped so often that the ex finally said “oh, leave the door open, we both know they are not going to go anywhere” (muahahahaaa). Kittens are so fast!
    I admit to being very jealous!

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    1. That is crazy that someone left them at the zoo! I am so glad that you took them home – and kept them! Lololol. I always kept every animal I brought home to foster. I was a terrible foster failure.

      They are mostly staying in their room right now. Mouse escapes then Mabel follows. They are so funny! Miso is sort of afraid of them, and is doing a lot of hiding which makes me sad. I think though that she will get used to them especially since we are doing this so slowly. They are so fast! They just scamper around like little klutzes. Lol

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      1. That’s because of the German names. Our local zoo is “Tierpark” (“animal park”), the shelter is “Tierheim” (“animal shelter”), so she got the two confused. Since the shelter wasn’t open on that day, though, and I was afraid she would just dump them from how she said she needed to get rid of them. I’m so glad I took them because Ponder became my soul cat.

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  8. They. Are. Unbelievably. Adorable. And I now have kitten feverrrrrrr!!!! haha 😀

    I’m so excited for all the kitten content to come 😉 ❤

    I love that Mouse scaled the wall to escape – we had a pair of sister kittens once that learned to climb curtains, and the quilt we had on the back of a bookcase. That was an interesting discovery: seeing a tiny fluffball looking over the top of a 6-foot bookcase, LOL!

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      1. Of course, once they got up there they couldn’t get back down, so we had to rescue them. Very thankful snuggles were given to the humans, then back up the quilt/curtain/whatever the kittens climbed again, LOL

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