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seanan_mcguireToday is Alice's six-month birthday. (She was born on December 19th, 2008.) Today is the day where she officially makes the switch from "my kitten is N weeks old" to "my kitten is N months old," which is always monumental, and a little bit sad. Her baby days are coming to an end. Bring on the slightly psychopathic teenage years!
...only probably not, because Alice remains incredibly mellow, for all that she's the feline equivalent of a college basketball player. She's long, lean, and equipped with miles and miles and miles of tail. Also, puffy. Very, very puffy. Her adult coat is coming in nicely, and while she requires a lot more brushing than she did when she was a tinycat, she's absolutely gorgeous. I'm thrilled.
Alice is my first non-Siamese since Sarah Jane died in 2002, and Sarah Jane was a primarily outside cat. Learning the body language and cues of a new breed has been interesting for the both of us. It helps that Alice and Lilly are both such sweet cats, which means they just sort of sit back and wait for the translation difficulties to be resolved whenever they arise. (They mostly have to do with Who Gets Mommy Right Now. The answer has turned out to be "both of us." It's a good thing I have a lot of lap, or I'd be in some pretty serious trouble.)
In honor of Alice's half-birthday, I'm going to be doing a fuzzy-kitty photo post this weekend, and spent about half an hour last night calmly cropping and re-sizing pictures. I feel faintly guilty; since I didn't have a digital camera when Lilly was a kitten, I already have more pictures of Alice than I have of Lil. Not that Lilly cares particularly. If I want to point the flashy thing at the kitten, she's all for it.
Also in honor of Alice's half-birthday, I did not take my plush octopus away from her when she valiantly killed it and pranced off, trilling, with one tentacle clasped proudly in her mouth. The plush octopus is still almost as big as she is. This won't last.
My cats are weird, but I love them. Happy half-birthday, puffy girl!
...only probably not, because Alice remains incredibly mellow, for all that she's the feline equivalent of a college basketball player. She's long, lean, and equipped with miles and miles and miles of tail. Also, puffy. Very, very puffy. Her adult coat is coming in nicely, and while she requires a lot more brushing than she did when she was a tinycat, she's absolutely gorgeous. I'm thrilled.
Alice is my first non-Siamese since Sarah Jane died in 2002, and Sarah Jane was a primarily outside cat. Learning the body language and cues of a new breed has been interesting for the both of us. It helps that Alice and Lilly are both such sweet cats, which means they just sort of sit back and wait for the translation difficulties to be resolved whenever they arise. (They mostly have to do with Who Gets Mommy Right Now. The answer has turned out to be "both of us." It's a good thing I have a lot of lap, or I'd be in some pretty serious trouble.)
In honor of Alice's half-birthday, I'm going to be doing a fuzzy-kitty photo post this weekend, and spent about half an hour last night calmly cropping and re-sizing pictures. I feel faintly guilty; since I didn't have a digital camera when Lilly was a kitten, I already have more pictures of Alice than I have of Lil. Not that Lilly cares particularly. If I want to point the flashy thing at the kitten, she's all for it.
Also in honor of Alice's half-birthday, I did not take my plush octopus away from her when she valiantly killed it and pranced off, trilling, with one tentacle clasped proudly in her mouth. The plush octopus is still almost as big as she is. This won't last.
My cats are weird, but I love them. Happy half-birthday, puffy girl!
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Date: 2009-06-19 03:04 pm (UTC)YAY!! ...and Happy (half) Birthday, Alice!
(** pauses to reload exclamation gun **)
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Date: 2009-06-19 03:05 pm (UTC)Hee.
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Date: 2009-06-19 03:50 pm (UTC)Happy half-birthday, Alice! Tiger turns one year in July. :)
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Date: 2009-06-19 04:50 pm (UTC)Now, is that because kitty is growing up or because kitty is tearing apart mr. octopus? :)
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Date: 2009-06-24 01:01 pm (UTC)HEE.
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Date: 2009-06-19 05:47 pm (UTC)I know what you mean. I started using the 'Vincent is so many months' vs. 'so many weeks' at about 6 months. I know people who would still use weeks when the kid was closer to nine months.
But kitties are much better. They purr.
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Date: 2009-06-19 10:40 pm (UTC)You must come meet her. She is immensely blue.
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Date: 2009-06-19 07:49 pm (UTC)see more Lolcats and funny pictures
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Date: 2009-07-01 05:41 am (UTC)did i miss the pictures or are they somewhere else??
could we use one alice pic to print on the filk fund cd/dvd? we decided to inkjet the label on the discs ( thanks to larry our sign guy) rather than use a boring white label. plus your cd/dvd font is called "grave digger"
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Date: 2009-07-01 04:26 pm (UTC)You're totally welcome to use pictures of my kitties! I have a Flikr under the user name "Seanan," which has lots of options.
The pictures have not been posted.