For those who've already seen my newest deviations, you'll probably have noticed that we've got a couple of kittens terrorizing my two cats. Kaelin and Rose were found by my wife, Stacy, and her mother were out doing some geocaching ( [link] ) which is kind of like real world treasure-hunting with more emphasis on the thrill of the hunt than the prize in the box, and well... they found something a little different than expected. They heard some mewing and discovered the pair in some weeds and leaves.

It appears that they'd been abandoned recently, since they were still pretty clean and dry, despite the rain earlier that day. They took them to MSU's vets and had them checked out - healthy, thankfully, but only three or four weeks old, so they should still be with their mother. I'm told that when they asked Stacy if she was going to be giving them up, she almost cried just at the thought of it. It didn't help that she'd read a news article just the day before about the Humane Society being over-crowded right now, but that aside, the girls already had their hooks in her. She was going all maternal and stuff.

Anywho, so for now we are taking care of them, which includes feeding them from syringes every four hours and keeping them cooped up in a plastic storage box (which Rose can damned near climb out of already, the little scamp) and giving them both lots of lovin'. Needless to say, the last one is easy and the feeding is absolutely killing our sleep cycles, but we're managing. Rose is the louder one and reeeeally likes to wander while Kaelin really loves nursing on fingers and cleans herself a lot. They both love to climb around on us! (Tiny little needle claws that hurt and tickle at the same time!)

Rose is slated to be taken by Stacy's sister once they're old enough (and will be named Taz, I guess, unless she changes her mind again) and Kaelin will be staying with us. We'd been talking about getting another cat, but this wasn't the manner we had expected. Life's tricky like that.

The only real bad part about all this (other than constantly interrupted sleep ) is that it does cut into my free time considerably between feeding and entertaining (and trying to keep my cats from feeling ignored), so not much time for writing or anything else remotely artistic. I've got stuff in the works, but it's slow-going right now.

Oh, and btw, Namphie and Izzy are both pretty freaked out by the kittens. Don't really seem to know what to do with them, and won't get close enough to touch them. They just watch from a distance and run if the kittens get too close. Scaredy-cats. Although I did get to watch Izzy sniff at the kittens, then walk over to one of her fur toys and sniff at it like "when did these things start growing legs?" They'll get used to 'em eventually!

We'll have to get some of you locals around to see them sometime. Their cuteness will overwhelm you!



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My family on DA! My lovely and entirely wonderful wife and my still-young-but-already-brilliantly-talented sister !!
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