FGKP - Friday Gratuitous Kitty Post!

[Lisa0825]

I'll go first, you join in!

Meet my new foster kitty, Heath! I pick him up today after work!!! :loveya:



I am the Sphinx. Worship me!


Sphinx does not like dogs! OR Taco Bell!



A few more here: http://photobucket.com/albums/a68/Lisa0825/10-14/?action=view&slideshow=true

[malta blue]

1. I don't have a picture but the kitty

vindicated me this morning. My SO has moved into my very little house, and brought his kitty along (The SO got here last week, but the kitty has been with me for a month since it was a cross country move and we tried to eliminate the drive stress)

The kitty is now quite fond of me, and during this mornings power struggle over leaving the toilet seat up, the cat just walked over to his daddy and peed on his foot.

Karma, just freaking Karma

[Lisa0825]

2. OMIGOD that is SO damn funny!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[malta blue]

3. I couldn't help but bust out in huge belly laughs at

that one. Can you believe it?
:rofl:

[Lisa0825]

5. I laughed out loud here, and I am only separated from my boss

by a thin wall! She always knows when I am not working!

[NV Whino]

20. Cats know.

Thanks for the chuckle.

[malta blue]

28. They surely do! eom

[AirmensMom]

4. How CUTE! OMG, they're cute!

This is Satchmo playing with his new kitty pillow. :loveya:

[Lisa0825]

6. That is a great picture!!!

He has a beautiful coat! :loveya:

[AirmensMom]

12. Thanks. He's a Mama's boy.

Here's the front of him. :loveya:

[malta blue]

7. What a great color

your kitty is. WOW

[AirmensMom]

13. Thanks. I love these kitty threads.

:loveya:

[NV Whino]

22. I lust after Abyssinians

They are such great cats. I'm in the market for a couple of kittens if you know some one in Norther California who is willing ot send them to a good home with (safe) outdoor privileges.

[AirmensMom]

29. Don't know anyone.

Get a Cat Fancy magazine ... or go to the website. They list all the breeders that have kittens. That's how we found Satchmo and Sabrina.

The gang ... it's a repeat.

[NV Whino]

33. Thanks.

[hyphenate]

30. He's an Aby!

Aren't Abys usually small? How much does he weigh?

[AirmensMom]

31. He weighs 9 pounds.

Sabrina, his mother, is 8 pounds. She's a lot smaller than he is. He could stand to put on another 1/2 pound or so. He looks a lot smaller than he is -- he's very long and lanky.

[Patiod]

8. Heath looks like a gremlin

And I love the photo of Sphinx in the "jungle"!

[Lisa0825]

11. That's his new "thing"

The AC unit blows on that fake plant and makes the leaves move. He loves to jump in there and wrestle with it!:-)

Heath really needs to get out of the shelter and into a home. His mom was adopted, and his own adoption fell through, so he is lonely. Hopefully someone will snap him up soon! :loveya:

[ThatsMyBarack]

9. rapahel

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[Lisa0825]

10. Welcome to DU!:-)

Your link didn't work. Is it uploaded somewhere? Try it again, try putting it on photobucket :hi:

[AirmensMom]

14. How old are they?

I love the Sphinx pose! :loveya:

[Lisa0825]

16. Leo (aka Sphinx) is about 2.5 months old.

Jennings is 5 months old now. The baby Heath is about 8 weeks old. His bio says 10 weeks, but he's so tiny that I don't believe it! They found him and his mom when he was teeny-tiny, so I think they may be overestimating his age.

[AirmensMom]

34. They look so tiny!

We haven't had any kittens in a while ... they sure are cute. :loveya:

[Lisa0825]

35. Leo had a growth spurt last week!

I swear he went from toddler to child in one night! I knew it was coming because first his legs grew, and he looked really lanky for a week, and now his body has caught up!LOL

The pic of Heath is almost 2 weeks old and they change so fast at this age, so he may look quite different when I pick him up! I'm excited about having another baby in the house!!! :loveya:

[AirmensMom]

37. Ooohh, I'm so jealous!

I love having babies around! :loveya:

[nickinSTL]

15. Woohoo! kitten pics!

I love kitten pics (and cat pics) :D

[Lisa0825]

18. Here's another for you:-)

This is Leo's sister Bijou, who was adopted by the vet tech at the shelter

[nickinSTL]

21. awww...

she's adorable :D

[AirmensMom]

26. Cute, cute, cute, cute, cute, cute, cute, cute, cute, cute,

CUTE! :loveya:

[demnan]

17. Kitty threads, gotta love 'em!

[Lisa0825]

19. Awww, look at those beauties!:-)

:loveya:

I tried to train my previous cat to walk on a leash. She would have none of it! She would stand there frozen, with her head hanging as if there were some huge weight holding her down!LOL

[NV Whino]

23. Friends of mine tried the leash bit

First the cat simply collapsed as if in severe pain. They decided the harness was too small. Sot they got a bigger one. The cat collapsed again. So they got a bigger one. Then the cat walked out of it. So they gave up.

(The cat was an Abyssinian, by the way.)

[demnan]

24. Lily (my half Aby) never adapted to the leash

She would lie down like a protestor wanting to be arrested and I wound up dragging her. I gave up.

[NV Whino]

25. Must be in the genes.

[AirmensMom]

27. I just love those kitties, demnan!

Keep the pics coming! I have a cute one of Sophie in my camera ... gotta get off my butt and upload it. :)

[demnan]

52. I love yours too!

You have a very lovely pair of Abbys. Do yours eat weird things like canteloupe, lamb curry?

[AirmensMom]

79. They'll eat just about everything that I eat.

But I don't let them any more. Sabrina LOVES broccoli! And they're wild about french fries. Satchmo likes popcorn, too. :silly:

[AirmensMom]

32. Here's our Sophie.

She was a PetsMart rescue.

[Lisa0825]

36. With that luxurious coat, she made me think

of Zsa Zsa Gabor! :rofl: Dahlink would you serve me more Fancy Feast? In the crystal goblet if you please.

[AirmensMom]

38. She eats rabbit, Dahlink,

raw, not cooked, in a bowl with fishies on it. But she is NOT spoiled! :loveya:

[Lisa0825]

39. question about raw food

Is there anything special you need to do to make sure it's safe for them, or are they just more immune to food poisoning than humans?

[AirmensMom]

43. You mean salmonella?

Cat's have a shorter digestive tract than humans, so they're not susceptible to salmonella poisoning. You can't leave the food out for days or anything like that. We keep it frozen and thaw a day's worth in the refrigerator. It saved our Abys' lives, so I'm one of those insufferable converts. My daughter started her kittens on raw from the time they came home.

:)

[Lisa0825]

47. Thanks!

I'll do some research on it. Do you have any resources you found particularly helpful on the subject?

[AirmensMom]

49. Yes.

Start with www.catinfo.org. She has a lot of info there and she's very knowledgeable. I read every page of her website. I use a modified version of her recipe, just the meat & bones, taurine, B Complex, and water. My vet has some good articles on www.therightremedy.com, but I don't use his recipe. My Abys can't tolerate any veggies. I like his pet health articles.

[Lisa0825]

50. muchas gracias! (nt)

:pals:

[AirmensMom]

55. El gusto es mio!

:pals:

[Patiod]

41. Man, Sophie is sure Livin Large now

No more Petsmart cages for her!

She looks as if she expects nothing less.

[AirmensMom]

46. She's a princess!

And she knows it. That whole Petsmart thing was just a bad dream.

[demnan]

53. She's a beauty

Looks like she could have some Maine Coon or Norwegian Forest cat in her.

[AirmensMom]

57. We think she's Norwegian Forest cat.

She's very small (8 pounds), way too small for Maine Coon. She's more fur than cat. She matches the Norwegian Forest cat in the book and the CFA's breed profile. That makes it official. :) She's a very sweet kitty.

[AirmensMom]

40. These are my daughter's kittens.

My grandchildren are kittens! I haven't met them in person yet, but I'm already in love with them. :loveya:

[Lisa0825]

42. I see one is studying electronics repair....

Making them earn their keep, is she?!LOL!

They're beautiful! Were they littermates? I love the pic of them snuggling together! :loveya:

[AirmensMom]

45. She's helping her dad fix something. :)

No, they're not littermates. The ginger kitty is a little younger than the torbie. I love the snuggling one, too. :loveya:

[Patiod]

44. That brown-patch tabby looks just like my Little

And she looks just about as mischievous.

[AirmensMom]

48. OK, where's the pic?

Are you going to keep it a secret? Both kitties are very mischievous. My daughter and son-in-law made a huge cat tree a few weekends ago and that solved the problem of curtain-climbing. :)

[Patiod]

51. The Little, as a kitten

trying to escape my lap on her first visit to our house.



Also here:
http://www.mycathatesyou.com/cats/search/little/1412

[AirmensMom]

54. Awwww!

She's a cutie! :loveya:

I can't get the link to come up. :( Are there more pics there?

[Patiod]

56. It's her picture on "MyCatHatesYou.com"

Just her looking evil

[AirmensMom]

58. OK, where are the rest?

Someone's holding out on us. I just KNOW there are more kitty pics out there! :loveya:

[Lisa0825]

59. Maybe all the kitty people are YAKKING today?

:shrug:

[AirmensMom]

60. I hope not!

They're outside playing in the sunshine.:)

[Lisa0825]

61. I THINK THEY ARE ALL IN THE LOUD YAK POPCORN THREAD!

SORRY....FORGOT TO TURN OFF THE CAPS! :evilgrin:

[Jamastiene]

67. I have some pics of my three...

Sunday Girl (looks pretty good for 13 years old, doesn't she?)


Yogi in his pirate fort. I've told him a thousand times to leave my pile of crossword puzzles alone, but he insists on making a fort out of them. He plays pirate and howls like a mad cat.


Domino's profile. She was looking out the window in this picture when we lived in the old place.

[AirmensMom]

70. Awww, pretty kitties!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[Eurobabe]

62. Fuzzbutts!! WOOHOO!!

Your foster is adorable. And the other one has a cattitude, fer sure. ;)

[superconnected]

63. My 6 cats and a homeless one I feed

Mischief - 8mo old, lives up to her name.



Sasha - 8mo old, her name rhymes with squash-a. She's a jewel thief.


Nilla (Vanilla) - 8mo old. - currently battling Mismatch to be in charge. He steals small electronic devices.



Rora (Aurora) mom of the 3 kittens - approx 2, pic taken after she got fixed hence her tummy is shaved. I took her in when she was homeless and pregnant last Christmas.


Mismatch - 18 yo, I bought her for 1 dollar, when I was 21, in a parking lot when I was on a date with a guy and he stopped at the store. Boy did he get pissed that I bought her and put her in his car. Never saw him again. She was a very young kitten.




Blacky - 8 mo old- showed up a month ago. I don't know where he came from but he needed a home. He is the size of my other 8mo's.




Crybaby - crying homeless cat ouside my door that I feed. he's still very under weight and still needs a home. My cats chase him out of mine. He's too frail minded

to fight them like blacky did so he could stay. He wont come in now because of my cats. This cat is in Everett WA - 23 mi north of seattle. He lives in a parking lot. I can count on him coming for food twice a day and can pick him up and catch him easily. He crys a lot. I think its because he's upset about being homeless.

[zanne]

64. Crybaby made me cry!

So I guess he's not the only one. I have four former strays, so I understand how nervous the homeless ones can get--poor babies. If I wasn't in NH, I'd go pick him up.

[superconnected]

65. Thanks. I couldn't waste a chance to list him here again.

He's safe for now. He has food and the bushes for shelter.

You're great for taking in strays!

[AirmensMom]

69. Ooooh, thanks for the pics, superconnected!

Your babies are precious! :loveya:

[Arugula Latte]

66. Ya'll are killing me with these beautiful kitties!!!

I've got one of my handsome guys on my lap now and he's impeding my typing.

[Darth_Kitten]

68. Too precious!

:D

[yellowdogintexas]

71. Cute Cute Cute!!!nt

[Gregorian]

Action cat!

I love these pictures. So cute.

[yellowdogintexas]

72. a hello from the furballs at my house!

Lewis: just posing



Lewis, showing us what a big boy he is:


Clark, showing the Vampire Fang of Death:


CatZilla, taking a bit of shelter:


Kitty Porn, starring Zilla and Lewis:



The late, great, and still missed Atlas;

[Gregorian]

75. Wow. They're identical.

I find it hard to believe.

This was Cicero. He died around 1982 at 19 years old. The best cat to ever live. A total personality.

[yellowdogintexas]

76. The "A" (Atlas) was 9..and was a slam dunk cat.

We have had many cats since ATlas, but he was a very special kitty.

Lewis and Zilla are actually not identical, but they are brothers.

Clark is also their brother.

[Gregorian]

77. Oh, I was actually refering to my picture and Atlas.

It's too much.

Cats and personalities of cats. A whole world apart from ours. It's just me and my two cats. We live together like a family. We don't need to talk.

[yellowdogintexas]

78. your kitty does resemble Atlas a great deal. I LOVE black & grey

tabbies.

I also love Tuxedo cats, Siamese mixes, black kitties and cats with extra toes. The grey brothers came in the package with the black cat!

I have not been without a cat in my home for longer than 8 weeks since 1970. I grew up with cats, too but they were mostly yard cats and semi domesticated cats. Since I moved out on my own I have always had a cat except for the 2 months between Atlas and the next adoptee. Our four boys keep us entertained, comforted, and loved.

OH YEAH, I love Maine Coon Cats too. Have you seen Oberon?

Go to the pet forums and click on posts by Lorien and you will meet Obie the Great.

[Gregorian]

80. Yes.

I remember that post. The cutest thing I've ever seen, with those two little ones. Sadly, I went there just now and found that one of the little ones has just died. We love cats so much. I have to go hug mine now.

[Gregorian]

73. A barn cat.

From my last property. Cats would find their way into the barn.

[smbolisnch]

74. You all have beautiful cats!!

Here is Linus.

Taking a bubble bath:


Sneezing:


Snooping: