Kittens as they grow

Just wanted to start a new thread so that people just looking for progress on how the kittens are doing didn't get fed up of pics! So this is for info AND pics.

Cute kitten pictures. They grow up so fast. *sniffly*

Oh what sweet kittens.

thanks luna! It will be fun to watch them grow

Sooooo cute!! Keep em' coming as they get older luna!

OMG that second pic, I need that kitten.

silly little kitties

Awwww.....I like the one sticking it's tongue out at me!

Tickly pink toes! I'm going to pass out from cuteness!
Luna, take a close up of those little feet for me.

Lol..........just the feet? Are you sure? Of course, your wish is my command but do you really want a pic of just the feet??

Well, the rest of them are cute too, but look at those little baby feet in the last picture!

Maybe just a close up in general. With some toes visible. :o)

Awww! I can't decide which one is cuter.

I love the second one. He's reaching out saying cuddle me. That black one is an Alien, him I'd be too freaked to have in the house.

OMG, that black one. What an attitude!

They are just too cute to be true. Thanks so much for sharing.

#15 I could see that little face appearing at 5:31pm if his normal feeding time is 5:30pm. "where is my food? It is now past my dinner time you lazy serf'

They are all so sweet, Luna!

Awwww, they're adorable!!!! My fave is the black one, what beautiful eyes that one has! :D But they're all amazing Luna!

Go here for video of the kittens. Its very poor quality as is just on my camera but its something :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n2IQY64Bv4

Awww, that's sooo cute Luna! Luna seems to be proud of her kitties! :D

Oh they are lovely lunacat I enjoy my grown cats but it is so long since I've been around kittens.

My kid sister just owwed and ahhed over the pictures. She's a fan of the black kitten but likes them all. We love the video!

Another video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlFexdc9YFs

and couple more pics!

oh man, i want to cuddle with all of them!

So Luna, where have you been sleeping? It looks like the kittens are very comfortable in your bed! :o)

#26

Yup, they are very happy there, of course they came into the world there as well! They sleep in my room in a dog cage that is padded and with the door open of course. They only go on my bed when we're in there.

Luna wants to move them either to my bed or into one of my drawers but we are dissuading her :)

Gosh, I can't imagine why you wouldn't want kittens in your drawers! LOL
One of our cats, Rosie, will jump in any drawer that I open and then dig her way through the clothes as far back as possible. She also the hardest to pick up, so imagine trying to pull the Tasmanian Devil out of your drawer.

Um is Rosie the one you are going to smuggle to me?

No, I was going to send you Romeo (the lover boy).

Here is a picture of Romeo:



And here he is making himself comfortable:

Wouldn't you love to have this elegant little guy in your home? Look into his adorable face. Resistance is futile.

what a little love bug!

Am I the only one imagining kittens in drawers. You know....pants?

uh...no not really kirby......

*snicker* drawers!

Update:

Last night I didn't manage to get much sleep thanks to the little darling, or more specifically their darling mother.

The black one (now named Zita) ended up being put on my bed SIX times, and the whole family ended up on my bed 3 times. I consistently put them back in their nest but noooooooooo, that clearly wasn't where Luna wanted them last night.

However, today she has been perfectly happy to leave them in their bed, when she would be able to put them on my bed if she so wished.

Cats, eh???? They are adorable though, and walking a lot better without falling over quite so much. They are also much more aware of their surroundings and focusing on the people around them.

Now, if I could just get some sleep, I'd be very pleased to coo at them!!!!!

LOL! You're persistent. I would have given up after the second time and either slept with them or moved to the couch. :o)

Lol.......seemingly I gave up after the 3rd time cos my friend poked her head in this morning and woke me up and I was curled round Luna and kittens then, hadn't woken up until she said 'Did you put those kittens there?'

ROFL!!!
Been there. With children and cats.
I think Luna must have been cold and figured it would be much warmer for her family if they all cuddled with you!

Last night, as I settled into bed, Luna again persisted in bringing the kittens to me to sleep.

We came to a compromise though, and I allowed her to keep them in my drawer :)

Whoever said grandkittyhood was going to be easy???

Awww! They are getting cuter every day! The black one is cute and always seems to be curious about the camera. The grey one is my favorite though. But they're all so pretty!

Oh oh oh!!!! luna, that video is gorgeous!!!! They're just beautiful!!

That is just so cute!!!! The little black one seems to be full of energy!!!

OMG! I want that black one! Oh he/she is sooooo cute! Send it to me! Send it to me! pleeeeeeeaaaassssssseeeeee!

you're really making me want a cat...but if i brought one home my husband would kill me.

#48 polly

Lol..........nope, she's ours. Her name is Zita, which means Little Hope according to a naming website and even if it doesn't, thats what we're saying it means! She is the runt of the litter and mostly gets bottlefed during the day and mummyfed overnight. However, she is the most inquisitive and aware of her surroundings, and is so active! She spends nearly all her time looking around and beating up her much bigger brothers.

Agh I need a whole litter of kitties.

I don't, but man these pictures.......

Awwwwwwww!!!!!!!!! Look at the little fuzzballs!

This thread is putting me in real danger of forgetting I'm a dog person... ;-)

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I was just thinking the same thing, LadyN.

Agh, they ate someone. I want a whole army of cute kitties to do my evil bidding.

Awww, look at the little cutie pies!!! They're so small and fuzzy and....just so weeny.

LOL! I was waiting for that in the last one! Mama was looking a bit perturbed!

Did Luna find them all? I'm very worried. When is the next episode?

awww all the fun of having kittens with none of the work! thx

We killed a mousy. :)

I hope you didn't have those books in some sort of order...because i think the kitties have destroyed that....silly kitties :D

I got you leg! Give up now and I let you live!

Maybe you should list them for mooching. I'd pay extra points for any of them.

News on kittens:

Weaning has started! Both little girls watched Luna eat some food and then Mouse started tucking in and ate nearly as much as her mum! Zita then came over and saw them eating, and then ate a lot as well.

We're so pleased, especially as Zita is now eating as she always misses out on milk and has gone off being bottle fed, so now we can do more to help her grow and catch up with the others.

The boys, however, are showing no signs of wishing to start weaning and are instead just desperately drinking from Luna.

Litter training is also not happening. Mostly, I have had little puddles all over my floor today, in different places!

So sorry about the litter training luna! I know how hard that can be. Do you have a low sided pan for them? Sometimes they have trouble climbing over a regular sized litter box.

#70 Isn't that just like boys! Just sit around waiting for mom to dish them up some dinner instead of going and getting their own. LOL

#72 I thought exactly the same thing.

I've never had trouble training cats to use the box. We never taught Slinky, who's sort of wild. Something funny about her is that she will be let out of the house and demand to come back in just to run to use the box.

I agree with JP about considering a lower-edged litter box for the kittens.

They've got a low edged box already which is different from the big one downstairs. There is no problem with them getting in and out cos they play in it, even though we put a small amount of wet litter in it from the downstairs one so they could get the idea.

Well there's your problem! They think it's a toy! They don't want to get their toy dirty!

Did you deodorize the spots where they had their accidents? Because if they still smell it, they will keep going where they shouldn't. We had a huge problem with one kitten that kept using the newspaper recycling bin. I realized it was because I used newspaper to line the bottom of the litter box, so he assumed he was in the right place.

Just trying to find out whether people still want/are interested in pics of kittens or are you fed up! I don't want to keep flooding your computers with pictures, especially those with slower connections!

Please let me know, thanks.

I love the new pictures.

More pictures please!

don't stop the pics! more!

#75 luna -76 jp:
My younger two cats had thought the box was a play place, too.

Luna, maybe there is somewhere in your home you could accidentally make look appealing as a play place. All it takes is a box or to move a piece of furniture and their curiosity of a possible new play place will distract them. And I, too, would love to see more pictures.

Luna, I love looking at baby animals. Especially baby animals I don't need to take care of. :o)

Yes please. I think there are healing properties in kitty and puppy pics.

Aww, I love those kitties. I want to be a cat lady (rescued kitties only) when I'm old.

I have a quick ethics question. If you accidentally selected a pic someone had posted on let's say for example LT, and it took you to their photobucket account is it ok to look at the rest of their pictures? Especially if that link took you to the motherload of cute kitty pictures that were impossible to resist.

I love those kitties too MsD! The pics are adorable Luna!

MsD: I don't see why you shouldn't but thats just me. I madea photobucket account a while back for the pupose of others looking at the pictures...

::sigh:: the more I see the more I want to get Pepper a little kitty friend...but she's had some bad cat experiances in her life...they just don't seem to like her much.

Sooo cute! The mirror confused me for a second. I thought you had twins. :o) My cats were never able to climb our bed so well at that age.

Second to last picture in #87 with the kitten toes is adorable.

Mandy, if you got a kitten and it grew up with Pepper, wouldn't that work out? Or is it kittens that don't like her? I've seen some really mellow kittens. On petfinder they usually list if the kitten is used to dogs.

Oh, I hate when they go under the couch. Our second to last pair of kittens used to get stuck in it. One has caught it's little tail. I've never seen a kitten crawl up a cat scratching post. I wonder after seeing the video, do they ever all sleep at once?

#85 Donna:
I don't know how others feel about it but any pictures I post as public view are okay for anyone to see. Some are posted as friends only and can be seen only when signed into the group photo account, unless your name happens to be kirby. We're friended there. :)

#89 Mandy:
I think the dogs take to the cats better than the cats take to the dogs here. We have sweet shelties who would never hurt the cats but everyone only seems to be friends when there's a screen between them.

Mandy, I had a dream last night that I ended up with a dog that looked like Pepper when she was a puppy.

Very short video showing what has been happening so far this morning.............again and again and again. Poor kittens!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAEpdrDaRTU

I guess mom cat doesn't want to admit her babies are growing up. :o)
I don't think she'll be able to lift them like that much longer!

No, she appears to be struggling slightly! She's now given up moving them and is calling them for them to move themselves. They are resiliently ignoring her........as only children can.

EDIT: I spoke too soon, just as I posted this she's brought merlin over in very undignified style!

THIS is what we've been waiting for!!

92: LUCKY!! :D ;)

Awwww! lookit them eating! sooooo cute!

Awwww i wqas never a cat person but kittens are so CUTE!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDQ2pLLBniE

This is them pulling our clothes off the clothes horse. Its one of their favourite games.

I like the fierce one in #100 who is chewing on someone's thumb. Reminds me of our sweet Dustbunny when she was a kitten. :o)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEwo3rMEH7A

this is what occurs any time they are not eating or sleeping! At the moment I am sitting in our livingroom watching one kitten pulling clothes off the clothes horse, two fight within their tube and one play inside a box a package came in.

Our attitude has turned into: Roll on the 18th May when the boys go to their new mummy! I know we will look back and wish for that time again but they are so exhausting..........

Years ago, when we adopted a 6-week old kitten from the local shelter we soon decided he had only two speeds, on and off. Just watching him was exhausting...

I love the picture where one of the kittens filed itself.

#104: I agree! That one would make a great LOLcat- "File under K for kitteh"

They are so cute *let's out a girly squeel

Oh all those pictures are adorable. I love cats especially kittens. I own two cats and we just added a stray kitten. The vet thinks he is about 2 years old. My two original cats do not like him at all. They are always hissing and growling at him and he just looks at them like what did I do. I think he thinks the male one is his dad and always looks at him like come play with me.

These pictures are making want to have kittens again. Hubby would kill me if I brought any more cats into the house.

Thanks for sharing and can't wait to see more.

107> Not being argumentive but I never think of a cat over a year old as a kitten

Well compared to my other two it acts like a baby more then anything. It looks younger in the face too. I don't think of it as a cat because of his face. Yet he really isn't a kitten. We don't know if the cat had a home or if he was just left out by some one who didn't care. Plus the vet isn't positive on the age. The stray looks like the size of a normal cat but just doesn't have the look of an older cat, if you know what I am getting at.

I still think of Moo as a kitten and he is over 8yrs of age.

Just a few pictures of the kittens, they're about 13 weeks now :)

Oh so beautiful!

Aww they're so cute.

They're gorgeous! They grow so fast!

Adorable! I thought the gray one in the last picture was leaning its head on its paw!

How come everyone else's cats can deal with leashes? I've tried a leash with my cats and they act like I just threw Wonder Woman's lasso over them!

Last week when the fire alarm went off at my building one of my neighbors brought her cat out on a leash. The poor thing was terrified (there were a couple of big dogs outside too) but all I kept thinking was Noah never would have put up with that!

JP, if it makes you feel any better, Larry is the first cat I've ever had that tolerates a leash.

#116 kik! Poor kitty though.

Luna, they are beautiful! I love the outdoor pics.

They are so cute!!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=103406&id=567535317&l=117ac69041

there are more pics of the kittens on this album on my facebook. I believe it is public!!

>#115: They tell the truth?

Silly. They can't move. Powerless. They flop to their side and lay there.

And our cats tell the truth anyway. They give you a look that says "Yes, I did it. And I'll do it again as soon as your back is turned."

Hehe, those pics are adorable. My first cat, Sebastian, was a really wild cat and didn't put up in a leash even when he had surgery and we had to prevent him from going out. Then he ran away.

Then we got Wilma. She kinda put up with a leash when we moved, but she didn't like it, so we let her go wild. Then she got hit by a car. :(

And now we have Lily and Elvira. They started out on leashes but then Lily got really annoyed at the leash so we let them go wild. Thing is, I think they're pretty used to staying close to the house because Elvira rarely goes out and when Lily does, she usually comes back in before we go to bed. But I've never tried walking any of them...

Those are beautiful pictures of your cats. I love cats!!

We have a neighbor who walks her cat on a leash. She doesn't like the fact that I let my cats roam free. I have seen her cat get off the leash and she has had to run after it before it gets away. I have tried leashes on my cats and they don't like it.

Just to clarify: We let them run free and they're lead trained. Best of both worlds!

That's amazing. I didn't know anyone needed to train a cat to lead. ba-dum ching!

#111 The kitties are gorgeous! I love the second pic with the flowers.

#122 Why do you need them to be on leashes to not be wild?