A Tale of Ten Kittens

Over the weekend, Gordon and I went to our local feedstore to pick up some chicken supplies. The cashier must have seen the giant “SUCKER” sign flashing directly above my head, because she started telling me about ten little kittens that had been abandoned at the store that morning. That’s right. Ten. Like an idiot, I followed her into the back and saw a pen full of tiny sleeping kittens. The feedstore employees didn’t really know what to do with all of them. So…now they’re in my house. All ten of them. Luckily Happytails, the no-kill shelter I volunteer with, agreed to allow all ten kittens to become Happytails kittens, as long as I could step up and foster them. So…now we’re fostering them. I’ll be blogging about them as they get bigger and start demolishing my house.

If you can, consider making a small donation to Happytails. They’re the ones who will be footing the bill for everyone’s spays and neuters.

Now, without further ado, I present…THE KITTENS!!!*

(We haven’t picked names since we don’t really have a solid bead on their personalities yet.)

Kitten #1
White and Dark Gray
Male
DSH
Green food dye mark
9.3oz

Kitten #2
Black
Female
DSH
10.8oz

Kitten #3
Solid gray
MSH
Male
Looks terrible because he’s just been washed.
7.9oz

Kitten #4
Black
Medium sized male
10.8oz

Kitten #5
White and gray
MSH
Female
Dot on nose, blue food dye mark
11.3oz

Kitten #6
White and gray
MSH
Male
9.6oz

Kitten #7
Black
Jumbo-sized male
13.5oz

Kitten #8
White and black
Female
Stripes around eyes
Extremely talky
9.9oz

Kitten #9
White and gray
Male
Moustache mark on nose
Red food dye mark
9.4oz

Kitten #10
White and black
Female
Smudge on bridge of nose
Yellow food dye mark
10.9oz

Their beautiful crate. The clean lasted for about two seconds after we put them in it.

*I’m wearing gloves because at this point we thought they had ringworm. Fortunately I was wrong! Also, NOT STRANGLING THE KITTENS, holding their heads still so we could take the pics. Kittens are SQUIRMY!