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I know kittens should sleep for about 20 hours a day. I just tiptoed up to check on the fluff babies (Original Post) Siwsan May 2022 OP
I can just hear what the must sound like! MontanaMama May 2022 #1
Sublime! 50 Shades Of Blue May 2022 #2
Priceless! Walleye May 2022 #3
How precious! NH Ethylene May 2022 #4
Kittens and red wine...... souds like heaven. applegrove May 2022 #5
Heavenly. You are so lucky to have such a sweet little family. n.t Peregrine Took May 2022 #14
Don't Fall For the Banana in the Tailpipe, People! ggma May 2022 #6
I just tried sneaking upstairs to brush my teeth. They were waiting Siwsan May 2022 #7
It doesn't matter whether it's AM or PM, whenever I start flossing my teeth my one cat in2herbs May 2022 #9
To cats, human behavior is so weird wnylib May 2022 #18
Adorable! gademocrat7 May 2022 #8
Amazing how fast they learn suncat May 2022 #10
I look at Madoc and it shocks me to realize he was this small, just 9 months ago Siwsan May 2022 #13
It must be so fun suncat May 2022 #17
That's how you'll be greeted in Heaven! lunatica May 2022 #11
So sweet....🐈 Mozeltov Cocktail May 2022 #12
you are so lucky...you have the most precious little ones .. dawn5651 May 2022 #15
.......Awww......Something Sweet..... titanicdave May 2022 #16

ggma

(708 posts)
6. Don't Fall For the Banana in the Tailpipe, People!
Thu May 19, 2022, 08:27 PM
May 2022

Siwsan is taunting us with all that cuteness!

Full disclosure - I am very jealous; and yes, I squeeeed at all the photos you have posted! You've got me bringing my daughter up to date every day, and she squees too.

I open your posts as soon as I see them. Not because I love the kittens. Nope, not me!

It's a trap! (need Star Wars meme)

ggma

Siwsan

(26,262 posts)
7. I just tried sneaking upstairs to brush my teeth. They were waiting
Thu May 19, 2022, 08:36 PM
May 2022

So, as soon as Law and Order is over, I know where I'll be heading.

in2herbs

(2,945 posts)
9. It doesn't matter whether it's AM or PM, whenever I start flossing my teeth my one cat
Thu May 19, 2022, 08:52 PM
May 2022

comes running from gawd knows where in the house to where I am and jumps on the counter and just sits and watches me floss. It's cute and weird at the same time. Has no interest in the floss string, just at what I'm doing.

wnylib

(21,449 posts)
18. To cats, human behavior is so weird
Thu May 19, 2022, 11:55 PM
May 2022

that they feel compelled to watch us to see what bizarre thing we will do next.

Mine often gives me a condescending look of pity for being so peculiar. Other times, she looks amazed at the things I get up to. Sometimes I think she is amused at human antics and seems to be inwardly laughing.

Today I got the amazed curiosity look for quite a while as she watched intently while I used a broken broom handle to knock some spices off of the top shelf in my kitchen cupboard. Any human would have understood that, since I am only 5'1" tall, I need either a tool or a ladder to reach that shelf. (I was too lazy to pull out the ladder.) Another human would also have known that the spices were there only for storage of extras that I picked up on sale until I needed them to restock my very reachable spice rack.

But Ember was puzzled over why I kept poking a stick in the cupboard. Is that how people hunt? How strange. What's in there anyway? A mouse? A bird? Can't see what my human is chasing, so maybe it's just a fly. Heck, I could have caught it by now. Why are people such poor hunters?

I felt triumphant when I brought down the minced onion, but Ember shot me the pity look again. Then she left the kitchen. The entertainment was over.



suncat

(41 posts)
10. Amazing how fast they learn
Thu May 19, 2022, 08:58 PM
May 2022

who their mama is; and how they can listen for their favorite sounds even while sleeping, so that they will be at full attention when mama is in the room, or when a can is cracked open!

You are in kitten heaven. Don't you wish it would last longer tan a few months?

Siwsan

(26,262 posts)
13. I look at Madoc and it shocks me to realize he was this small, just 9 months ago
Thu May 19, 2022, 09:25 PM
May 2022

And now he's so big. Really much bigger than I anticipated, since he was so much smaller than his sisters. Madoc was the only short hair in that litter.

This litter has two, big, really fluffy kittens (Dewi and Gwen) and two medium fluffy (Arthur and Bronwyn). And they seem to be pretty equally mischievous with Dewi being the most vocal.

suncat

(41 posts)
17. It must be so fun
Thu May 19, 2022, 10:23 PM
May 2022

to watch kittens from the same litter grow, side by side, and study their differences and similarities. I've only had one kitten, or two from different litters, my whole life.

It also amazes me how their genes can be so different even though they are from the same litter. I just watched a you tube video by "The Kitten Lady" and learned that kittens can have different fathers in the same litter! How does Mom do that, haha! Also, there are no "mutts" in the kitten/cat world, as there are in the doggie realm. It has something to do with how their genes only pair up from mom and dad in certain combos. It is a subject of great interest in vet biology, I hear....

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