Kittens!!
Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 2:03AM
So we decided 5 weeks ago that we were going to get kittens from some friends of ours. They live on an acreage in the Alberta Foothills and someone had abandoned a cat on their country road. Our friends being the animal lovers that they are, decided to try and rescue her. They did manage t convince her to get in the car and brought her to their home. She was obviously from a home because she was well socialized and knew how to act around the family.
A few days later they discovered that Sabrina was pregnant. So as they nursed her back to better health they tried to figure out what to do with the kittens. Having 5 or so cats of their own already plus dogs, chickens, horses etc. there was no way they could keep them. Meanwhile in our household I had been secretly planning to get my wife an orange tabby kitten for her birthday. You see she had an orange tabby cat when she was younger, and she had been asking me for a cat for some years and at Christmas I had started looking for a kitten for her from a different friend of ours.
A few weeks later Sabrina had her kittens, two totally healthy and beautiful orange tabby kittens. Our friend, not knowing that I was looking had been sharing with my wife about the kittens and so around 2 weeks old she asked us if we were interested. I didn't let on that I was, but let my wife think I was opposed to a cat for a little longer and begrugdingly agreed to go and see them. After the first time we saw them we talked about it, I told Cindy that I had been planning to get her a kitten, and so if she really wanted to get one, we would get one of the kittens.
So we went out every 5-7 days to visit them and see how they were doing. However a problem started to emerge, we realized that we were going to have to split them up, and they were a lot more fun together. The other problem we realized is that my wife and I liked different kittens. So in the end they twisted my rubber arm and I agreed to get the second kitten. So we've been visiting them from about 3 weeks and just brought them home on Friday night. Below are some pictures from the past 5 weeks the last few are from when we brought them home this weekend.
- RoneTyne
A few days later they discovered that Sabrina was pregnant. So as they nursed her back to better health they tried to figure out what to do with the kittens. Having 5 or so cats of their own already plus dogs, chickens, horses etc. there was no way they could keep them. Meanwhile in our household I had been secretly planning to get my wife an orange tabby kitten for her birthday. You see she had an orange tabby cat when she was younger, and she had been asking me for a cat for some years and at Christmas I had started looking for a kitten for her from a different friend of ours.
A few weeks later Sabrina had her kittens, two totally healthy and beautiful orange tabby kittens. Our friend, not knowing that I was looking had been sharing with my wife about the kittens and so around 2 weeks old she asked us if we were interested. I didn't let on that I was, but let my wife think I was opposed to a cat for a little longer and begrugdingly agreed to go and see them. After the first time we saw them we talked about it, I told Cindy that I had been planning to get her a kitten, and so if she really wanted to get one, we would get one of the kittens.
So we went out every 5-7 days to visit them and see how they were doing. However a problem started to emerge, we realized that we were going to have to split them up, and they were a lot more fun together. The other problem we realized is that my wife and I liked different kittens. So in the end they twisted my rubber arm and I agreed to get the second kitten. So we've been visiting them from about 3 weeks and just brought them home on Friday night. Below are some pictures from the past 5 weeks the last few are from when we brought them home this weekend.
- RoneTyne
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