PhotoHunt 232: Natural. September 25, 2010

 
What’s more natural for mammals than to care for their babies, like Felicia cared for her kittens last year.

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Cats without Kittens - Papas short report

Mieoow,

We are back to normal. Allmost.

No more Kittens around.

Mother Felicia relaxes. But she are back to her habit of waking us up very early in the Mornings:

Puurr puurrr, mieuwing for Breakfast.

Auntie Rosa some times miss the opportunity to play with the Kittens. But she as well relaxes and waiting for the Spring and moving to the Summer Home.

PS. Both Felicia and Rosa do play like Kittens during the Nights. Oh, yeah, we can hear them. And even feel them in our Bed.  Felicia has even coming back to her habit of licking my armpits.

Her Tongue is rather rude, it hurts, but papa let's her do it.

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Kittens and Hurricanes

My regular readers do know we are Cat sitters for two of Felicia's kittens born on July 17 this year.

Mieooow , we are Sister and brother. Visting our mom and aunty during the two-legs season.
See how sweet and inocent we are?

Sister, listen: We need to have some fun. Right?

Hi, brother, jump up and let's play on this large, green plain.

We will have Family Gathering tomorrow, but wit the Hurricane Twins, we need to plan otherwise. Serve the Meal in the Kitchen and devide our appartement  in order to let the "Hurricane" siblings have their freedom. They are after all young Cats. 


And there is more to think about, not only regarding humans, but also Cats

And you might also remember Felicia got new Kittens on Dec1?
Here you see the only Black and White, while to two twins are playing in the background.
You also observe the litter Box to the right? Oh, yeah, they know where it is and how to use it.

They are very beautiful and very Manx and their body shape and mind.

First evening in a Human Bed. What does it smell. Food around? Let's find out.

Hmm, who is the real Manx here? Except for the Tailless, they all have a Manx's body shape.

And Rosa is observing her Sister kittens. She behaves very well, and even play the the Hurricane Twins.


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Kittens on Tuesday

My regular readers may have observed we have been busy the past weeks and not very active as bloggers.

Below you will see one of the reasons.
Before the photos:
Felicia had new kittens on December 1. 
Three have survived. Here you see them the first Day they walked. 19 Days old.

Besides, we are Cat sitters for Felicia's twins, both born July 17, this year..
They will return to their new human parents firts week next year.
They are both great and very healthy Cats and loves humans (after a while).

Five months old. He looks majestic allready

She is the Female, named "Kviten" - "the White" due to her nose. She really adores us. But her Mother are not that satisfied. Predators life.

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PS. Sorry, I'm for the time beeing not able to comment as I normally do. 
But will be back asap. This post is just for giving you an update from our daily life with seven Cats.
Just before X-Mas
But that's another story.

Kitten tragedies

My regular readers my remember Felicia gave birth to 6 kittens on December 1 - 2009?

Well we are so happy as we was at that day.

However, this is not a happy post about Cats. So be warned. Photos taken with my iPhone in order not to be to detailed.

One of the Kittens died last Saturday. Gene failure.

On Sunday we discoverd another two of the Kittens were born with serious defects. One of their back legs was only half size. This is the curse of the Manx-gene.

To Day I went to the Vet. It was only two solutions: Amputate the misformed legs from knee and down or give them a sleep-in injection. After a relative short pro et contra discussion we decided to end their life one week old. They would never could have lived a good life as Cats. Not even as indoor Cats.

 Here you see the Vet with the tiny black kitten. Missed half her right back leg.

It was, however very heartbreaking to hold them in my hands while the Vet gave them the injections.

Except for their handicaped legs they were very healthy and large, even their eyes were open, kittens to be only one week old.

The Vet told me she has never seen so large kittens and with open eyes so young before.

While they passed away, the Vet opened Internet to read about the Manx breed.

Then checked the kittens. They needed a double injection. So they were strong. In their too short life.

 

Rest in Peace our dear little ones. They will be cremated. 

More Cats on Tuesday here. Hope there will be many lucky stories

The Kittens are Back - Update Wordless Wednesday

This Kitten has the cutest zig-zag Tail!!

This Kitten has a short Manx Tail. The patterns are symetric on both sides.

Here you see all the 4 kittens and Mother Felicia.
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Story (from yesterday):
Due to circumstances, we had to pick up Felicia and her 4 kittens this Tuesday.
Which means they are back, where the kittens lived their first 4 days of their lifes. In fact, they have not seen the place (our Summer Home) before. They were still blind when they left.

And Stompa can not go back to his Winterhome due to the same circumstances.
So, at the moment we have 7 cats here.

The Kittens were more or less very shy when they arrived. (It is 3 of the in the Cage)
You can see from the following photos. They are very cute and special. Two of them are invisible.

Mieoow - I'm clean

I feel safe under this bed

I do play when mother Felicia have a meal

We hope it all will end luckely.

More to come....

PS. If you want to know more about the reason, send me an e-mail

Kittens on a Tuesday

My regular readers do know we have kittens. But we do not see them every day. They stay at Solvis home. However, here you can see some photos of the very lively kittens.

Miuew - do you like us? We are the children of Felicia.
Here you see us with our wonderful mom Felicia. All of us. Do you see the one in the center of the Photo? A real Manx. Read about the breed here. I have had several Cats in my life. Of different breeds. Manx have become my favourite breed. Lot's of reasons for that.

mieiow . we like to play. We must be Twins. Don't you think?

Miauuu - this is really exciting playground.

Mieooww - did you find us in our secret hiding place.

Mieeeew - what are you looking at? Me?

Miuooow. Look at me as well. Even though my Mother is a Manx, well I do feel like one.

Do you think I'm charming? Well even after a good meal?
See my Tail? My Mother is a Manx. I'm a Manx too, even though I have a very short Tail.

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Cats on Tuesday - Sept 1 - 2009: Kittens

Here you see the 4 Kittens.
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Cats on Tuesday - August - 25 - 2009 - Kittens

My dear readers,
you my have noticed our Cat Felicia was mother of kittens some weeks ago?
Just before we went down from Norway to the South of France to a unforgetable blogger reunion.

Felicia and her Kittens were taken care of by Sylvi and also Ingelin.

This Tuesday, Anna and Papa did see the kittens for the first time since about a month.

Here is some photos (You know kittens are even faster than a Camera, so it was a very difficult task to present them here on COT).















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