In My Garden

I spent the other evening hanging in my garden. It was nice to relax, and feel the grass between my paw pads.

And we can't forget playing, which is the super most fun thing ever! Mum likes this picture, even though you can't really see it clearly.

But the whole time I thought there was something a little amiss. I'm not sure what it was.

I don't suppose you have any ideas of what it could be?

P.S. We have great news! Freja and Athena were both adopted on the weekend! Hooray!

Hello and Goodbye

Hi! It's Polly Smitten-Kitten here.

I wanted to share these nice photos of Freja and Athena hanging out together.

They are two kitties who really enjoy being sisters:)

Our foster mum didn't come home with an empty carrier, though. She came home with FIVE more kittens! There are four boys and one girl, and the shelter workers named them after Oscar nominees- Sean, Heath, Mickey, Brad and Meryl.

Speaking of Oscars, guess what! Fin has announced the winners of the Acatemy Awards, and I won in the Best Review of '80s Television category! I am so excited!

I would like to thank Fin and her Mom for hosting such a fun competition, the Dell laptop that I watched the show on, the students of West Beverly High School, and my foster mum for transcribing my thoughts on Beverly Hills 90210.

Have a happy week:)

Sunday Snoozin'

It's Sunday.

Time for sleeping


For sprawling


For dreaming

For snuggling

For cuddlingFor relaxing...

For...
Guys?
Hey. guys!

That's better.

Athena and Freja are going back for their ladygardenectomies, and leave tomorrow. It's going to be a big week for them, and we wish them lots of luck!

Have a great week, everyone:)

Weighty Wednesday

Bet you thought this would be a Fui post, right? Hahahaha!

It's not though. It's me, Freja!

and it's me, Athena, too! We found something today that shocked us a LOT.

Can you believe how little we used to be?!

I guess that's what eating your dinner will do :) Remember how we were christened the Little Litter? Compared to our little sisters now, we should be called the Big Strong Litter.

Our foster mum forgot to give some great news! Remember this cool guy, Thor?

He was adopted on Valentines Day! He is a Valentines Day baby! Hooray!:)

Love from Athena and Freja Brady.

It's Apollo!

Hi! Remember me? I'm Apollo!

This was me when you first met me. My foster mum said I was light as a feather!Did you know it has rained every day for 23 days straight?! Our foster mum said she is going to go troppo very soon. One of the roads to the shelter is washed away! It's not there anymore! We know we are lucky though, because our home and and the shelter are safe, and we are safe. We are sending our purrs and our prayers to our countrymen, women, kitties, woofies and everybody affected by the horrible fires and floods. We hope this cosmic joke will right itself soon, and our friends down south will get the water that they need.

The shelter vet couldn't get to the shelter for a few days because of the cyclone we had last week. Because of this, a lot of kitties are caught up in the desexing backlog. Thor and Loki are stuck there, but I was lucky to get through. Mum was going to bring them home yesterday until things settle back down, but the entire kittens were having a ball in their section, so she decided to leave them. Mum's friend at the shelter is going to keep a close eye on them, but she thinks they are continuing to thrive. If that changes, they'll come home with Mum.

This was me when she came to the shelter yesterday! I'm almost looking mancatly! I am up for adoption now at the shelter.

I am picking on kitties my own size now! My foster mum was giggling at how tough I was trying to be. Before I left, I was bashing my sisters, and they started to wee outside the box. Now things have settled down for them again, and I have other kitties happy to wrassle with me all day if I wanted!

Polly went home yesterday! My foster mum was shocked when she saw her. She is SO skinny. Foster mum could feel every individual bone in her spine and chest, and thought it was a little bit scary. Polly has also broken her tail. It's up at the tip though, so it wont bother her. It's been a bit of a struggle getting her to eat- she just doesn't want to. Foster mum has been forcing kitten formula into her, and late last night she got some Whiskas gravy into her. Today foster Mum learned that if she puts Polly infront of a dish with one of the other kittens, and Polly can watch the other kitten, Polly will start eating on her own! That makes it much easier than trying to force the food into her, especially because Polly might be very weak, but she is one fiesty little girl kitten! She has put on a little bit of weight today, and her eyes are brighter, so that is good. The other girls are cuddling with her, and being good big sisters.

Have a super week, dudes and dudettes!

Freedom!

Hi Peeps! Guess what! After lots of observation, we are being allowed downstairs to play with the big cats! It's enough to make a kitty jump for joy, even if it does make a picture come out blurry (especially when our foster mum is the wriggly one taking photos! MOL!).Freja put her prettiest face on for the occasion, with lasers:activated.

There are outside things inside! Isn't that weird? It's for the same reason we have the windows in our room taped up and covered, incase the bad wind comes. It gets a bit scary, and we hide in our hidey spots when it gets loud. Silly storms. But enough of that, back to the fun stuff! The Smitten-Kittens have never seen plants before. The two remaining Bradys have, but that was when they were too small to really appreciate it. Cat grass is a pretty good introduction to flora!

And a spot of watering can wrestling can never be discounted for it's fun value.

Neither, of course, can hanging out with the Moimoi cat! He was sitting in his corner. It's the spot he likes to chill in when it's really hot, because he gets a good breeze and the cold tiles.
We hope you have had a happy start to your week:)

From Freja & Athena Brady, and Penny & Sally Smitten-Kitten.

Hello there!

Right, that's it. It's high time we got some blog time around here! So I am taking it upon myself to tell you a little bit about us.We were brought in to the shelter with our mumcat when we were still in her tummy. Our mumcat is very sweet, so the shelter made the decision that she should be allowed to have the kittens, and then go through to adoption when we were ready to be seperated from her. As it was the busiest time of the year for the shelter, we were very lucky that our mum was such a lovebug, or it would have been a different story.

We stayed in a special area with our mumcat for several weeks after we were born. Then, on the day our foster-mum-to-be brought Odin and Thor in to be desexed, the shelter decided it was time to seperate us from our mumcat. We were driving her loopy, and had learned how to clean ourselves and use the litter box.

So we came home to meet our foster brother Fui and sister Suey (through the door, foster-mum is obsessively cautious after the Blossoms), and our new sisters Athena and Freja, and brothers Loki and Apollo. After a hiccup with super ear mites, we are settling in nicely.

This is my sister Sally. She is the biggest of our litter, but is also the biggest scaredy cat. When we first came to our foster home, she spent a lot of time hissing at shadows and growling at gusts of wind, but is getting better. She is getting better though, and even comes over to say hi to our foster mum when she comes into our room to visit. She likes playing rough and tumble with Apollo.

This is my sister Penny. She is the friendliest of the three of us, and loves to climb into laps. She has a monster purr, too! Her ears are pretty froot batty, don't you think?

We are getting along well with our two new sisters. This is me and Penny with Athena, who also loves to play games. We have learned that Freja is good for cuddles. Loki was the best big brother ever, he took such great care of us. He would even clean our faces after dinner!

It is great having brothers around, as we are a litter of just girls. We have fun with them. And since we're not related, I can say they are both pretty spunkalicious!

Loki and Thor will probably have his hoohaectomy at the same time as our mumcat, tomorrow. We are purring for them all to have speedy recoveries and find fabulous families.

I hope you are having a lovely week:)

From Polly Smitten-Kitten.

Eeeewwwww!

I heard something very funny! Really really very funny! Before my foster daddy went away, he and my foster mum went to a place called the Hervey's Range Heritage Tea Rooms. It is about an hours drive from where we are living. It's quite a pretty place.

This is my foster daddy making friends with their horse. He was an old boy, and very friendly.

But that's not the funny thing. Do you know what the Tea Room specialty is? It is a drink called
Kopi Luwak. See this animal? It is a Civet Cat.See this? It is a preserved Civet Cat poop.

Do you know what that is in the poop? Coffee beans!!!

Civet Cats eat coffee berries as part of their natural diet. The beans pass through their system undigested. These beans are then harvested, and made into coffee!! And it's expensive coffee, too. One cup at the Tea Rooms was AU$50 (US$32.83 as of Saturday night). It is thought that the digestive enzymes break down some of the proteins in the bean, making it less bitter. If you or your humans saw The Bucket List, you would have seen that they had trying a cup on their list of things to do.

Did you read that!? People pay to drink pooped out coffee beans! Humans are bananas, kitties. Bananas! The tea rooms sell 4 cups a week!

By the way, my foster mum had a strawberry milkshake, and my foster dad had a chocolate milkshake. They are not brave:)

My big ginger foster brother Odin has found his Forever Home!!!! He found his yesterday. Thor was held back last week, and will be desexed this Wednesday. Loki went back today, and will also be desexed on Wednesday. Hooray for the Big Litter Boys!:)

LOLed at you by Athena the pretty kitten (see how pretty I'm getting now that my face is filling out?).

I Can See You:)

Hello Everykitty!
Thankyou for your helpful advice yesterday. We were particularly appreciative to see that mum should not try to comfort us too much, or we would think something was wrong. We didn't know that. So she will do her best to try and keep things normal. Whicky, you are a very clever kitty:)



My friend Goldie asked how my eye is, and this is mum's report:
"Great! He is not blinking or squinting, and it all seems to have cleared up on it's own! The vet is mystified as to what went on, as are we. Looks like Fui is even weirder than we first thou-".

That's quite enough from you, thanks mum!
This morning mum and dad took Odin and Thor back for their hoohaectomies. They bought three little girl kittens home with them! They had horrible ears, so mum took them right back. They had one of the worst cases of ear mites the shelter people had seen, and spent aaaaaages getting all cleaned out. Hopefully they are more comfortable now, and can get forward with the business of being a kitten.

Without further ado, I would like to introduce:
Miss Polly Smitten-Kitten, a cute little floofball.
Miss Sally Smitten-Kitten, a lovely little tabby (like me, except I'm not little).

and Miss Penny Smitten-Kitten, a little tabby and white cutie pie.

The girls are about the same size as Freja, Apollo and Athena. Loki has taken on the role of kitten sitter, and seems to be really enjoying it.

Apollo is coming along in leaps and bounds. When they first came home, mum was a bit worried about him, as he was very lethargic, and not too interested in food. With some TLC, and some special attention from Loki (he is such a good kitten sibling!), he is now thriving. He is very funny, too. When the Smitten-Kittens first got here, they were pretty nervous and hissy. One of them was lying on the floor by Apollo, and she hissed at mum. Then Apollo looked at mum and gave a little half hearted hiss. Mum told him he was a silly billy, and reached forward to give him head rubs. At that point, he started purring his head off. He's a funny kitten head:)

I'm staying up tonight to watch the Inauguration with mum. We have to stay up till 3am before it starts! After seeing what I looked like in my Obamicon picture yesterday, I have Presidential aspirations.

(Fui, Australia doesn't have a President. We have a Prime Minister).

Yes but mum, I didn't want to leak my desire to be World Overlord too soon! So shush! Anyway, we hope everyone is having a happy week so far:)

We've Been Playing!

And having oodles of fun doing so! We've been biting toesies,


Bunnykicking heads,
Then bunnykicking other heads,Bopping each other on the noses,

Bobbing each other on the conks,

And playing Thundering Herds of Elephants all over the room!

It is such fun! We hope your weekend has been fun too, and you have an even funner week. It wont be too much fun for two ginger boys though, who are so ready for their hoohaectomies that they stand to lose half their body weight on Tuesday. MOL!!! (don't tell our foster mum we made that joke, we might get in trouble!).

By Athena and Apollo.