Greetings Catnip Chronicles fans! The Raz here - Senior Spokescat for The Fab Five. Hope everyone's enjoying their summer (or winter if you're on the other side of the globe).
I have LITTLE News - The Fab Five are once again Foster Parents - to three young kittens! Having once before fostered a little rugcat, Celia, about a year and a half ago, we consider ourselves quite experienced at this. Even though it takes a bit away from our napping time, we're enjoying the fluff balls. Unlike the first time, when we just had ONE kitten, three is actually easier on us, as they have each other to play and wrestle with, and pretty much leave us alone, except for some exploratory sniffs - we can live with that!
Given diana, our own human, is up to her whiskers with pet sitting this month and experiencing major sleep deprivation (not something we cats are familiar with, thank Bast!), and we're raising the three little ones much on our own, we don't have a "real" article this month. We'll be back in September though, with further adventures of our part-time roomie cat, Antonio. He's a true indoor/outdoor cat - we're indoor/outdoor balcony cats. Suits us, suits him - no complaints in the suggestion box around here!
Want to see pictures of our three foster kits? Check out the "My Favorite Cat Photos" page. Our babies are Apollo, Venus, and Pandora (diana's gone all "theme" again with naming this latest batch of fosters). We indulge her…
See you in September and don't forget - your local feral colony caretakers and shelters need whatever personal and/or financial assistance you can offer them. LOTS of kittens born this spring out there needing loving fosters and forever homes. If you've never been a kitten foster or adopted a kitten into your home - you're missing out on an extraordinary experience - the early development of a new life and all the joys of having playful babies in your home! We cats grow up a lot faster than human kids, which makes our brief kittenhood all the more special. We're bona fide "adults" long before your human babies graduate from diapers!
If you'd like to read about our previous foster Celia (now in a happy forever home with her adopted brother), here are the links to her articles:
http://www.catnipchronicles.com/dec2007/fab.htm (part one) and
http://www.catnipchronicles.com/apr2008/fab.htm (part two).
Antonio's debut was in March 2009: http://www.catnipchronicles.com/march2009/fab.htm
Purrs and Whisker Kisses,
Le Raz
[Note from diana- Please don't adopt a kitten just because it's a "cute" baby. Baby becomes adult in just a couple years and cat adoption should be a lifetime commitment, as it would were you adopting a human child. Like human babies, kittens grow into their purrsonalities. Perhaps cats mature faster because they don't have the longevity most humans have - just my theory. Your human baby might live to be 100 years old. Your kitten, with proper care and nutrition, might make it into her 20's…]
Visit The Fab Five and diana at http://www.geocities.com/newagecatcare. diana is a pet sitter in Carroll County, MD; Vice President of the Howard County Cat Club, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, no-kill cat rescue/adoption agency http://www.howardcountycatclub.org; freelance pet photographer, and Catnip Chronicles columnist and consultant.
