Friday Four and More: Second Breakfast, Please, May 8, 2017
In order, Mr. Sunshine, Jelly Bean, Mewsette and Giuseppe, all four on the cabinet, their eyes almost lined up, one of the best photos of them together from all the photos I’ve taken. It’s a great memory. I feel them in the kitchen sometimes, behind me on the cabinet, hanging out on the table, or laying all over the floor so I have to step over them. I never want to let that go, that little connection, and chance forgetting how lucky I was to share my life with them for 16 years.
Yes, this photo is in the sidebar in remembrance of the magic of all four siblings together, but it’s one I posted only as a Wordless Wednesday in 2017 so I got to say a little more about them. I think it’s a great way to remember all four today.
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Whatever you do next, make sure you first scroll down to see Mariposa sleeping in synchronized positions mimicking Giuseppe!
I’m still surprised at how she really seems to copy his position and still wonder if that was intentional. She was here out of her colony less than a year and was probably just about two years old, learning fast about living in a real house, not an abandoned one, and she just loved Giuseppe. She was the last kitten he fostered.
Plus lots of cuteness from Sienna and Hamlet in the year before these, and groups of black cats and others back through the years.
Photos from past years around this date
Synchronized Sleeping With the Big Ninja, May 2019
I just can’t handle it. I look in my bedroom and big, inky Giuseppe is stretched out on the bed looking very much like a big panther. Right next to him, less than half his size, is fluffy Mariposa, in the same position as Giuseppe, looking like a kitten and holding onto his leg with one white mitten, a serious sleeping expression on her face. And then they move into another position!
NOTE: These photos and the text are from May 14, 2019. I’ve been considering sharing them again because they are so cute! Because I’ve been thinking about them so much I decided to share them on Tabby Tuesday. Mariposa was still such a little bunny and she loved Giuseppe. He was the big ninja, the main foster who showed the fosters around and taught them how to be cats, finishing off their socialization with a flourish.
Then…
Time to flip over and stretch out. Giuseppe has his paws curled, Mariposa has her mittens stretched out like big cotton balls waving but she does have her boots curled up, tail also curled toward the side. I just want to touch them both!
Giuseppe’s face, sort of, upside down, ears flattened, paws curled.
Then, Mariposa works on that one.
Pretty close, if you ask me. I think she gets points just for the whiskers.
Then one more, just for cuteness.
Giuseppe isn’t big on cuddling with the fosters when he comes upstairs. He usually wants to just have a good sleep on the bed, but he will cuddle with his family. Mariposa has totally integrated herself into all their lives. Giuseppe doesn’t seem to mind at all.
He was the best foster, he was a natural for it. Mariposa may not have gotten much mentoring where she grew up and she absorbed everything he taught to her. Very loyal, she kept watch over him as his suspected brain tumor progressed and he needed protection from stairs and other dangers; she was right there. And she was there for Mr. Sunshine too, with her youthful energy. Cats are amazing creatures.
From Facebook and Instagram
Four directions, the four siblings.
Photos from years past.
Hamlet and Sienna Have a Cuteness Contest, 2018
I had no idea when I walked into my bedroom I was walking into a serious competition for “cutest foster cat”. I did notice right off that they were very cute, but it wasn’t until they both struck poses that I stopped and realized this was important stuff. Sienna was first, and as I moved toward her to pet her and reward her for greeting me, an important part of socialization, Hamlet watched, then rolled himself into his own pose in response.
Apparently there were three categories: cutest face, cutest full body, and cutest freestyle pose. Above, and below, are the cutest faces.
Hamlet regularly rolls over for me, but only on the wardrobe at the top of the stairs, never on the bed. Hamlet has his rules. That’s how he feels safe. But here he let it go. Perhaps Sienna taught him something.
Then there was the cutest full body pose. Sienna is a true professional, but Hamlet lost a few points with moving too much. But he is still cute.
Then the freestyle pose where each of them could choose a pose they felt most advantageous to their cuteness.
Again, Hamlet loses a few points with moving too much and not really holding his pose, but he is still cute.
Both kitties competed well and won lots of praise and petting for their efforts.
From Instagram
A nice, fresh, new, WHITE worktable cover, so of course…
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What other photos have I shared around this date?
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Wordless Wednesday: Fill Those Feeders to Turn on CatTV!
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Mimi’s Dream Vacation
I caught a nice photo of Mimi enjoying our old picnic table as I wandered the yard photographing whatever. I added an Instagram tilt shift and it was like Mimi’s magic place.
Below, Mimi tries her paw at some cattitude. “Can I just work on my tan without you getting in my face?”
And while she enjoyed the sun on the picnic table she was followed by rainbows, if you look a little closer.
And here are some of the things I photographed blooming in the yard while Mimi sunned herself.
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What other photos have I shared around this date?
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Bella Basking, 2016
We had some sun today. Bella settled down to bask in it for a while. She looks very sculptural.
What other photos have I shared on this date?
Because I will Charm’s rescue story soon…
Daily Kitten Photo: Fighting off the Hand Monster
I will admit that I have a lot of photos in this post. And I will admit that I enjoyed this little game just as much as the kittens did and it was difficult to stop because they kept wanting to play. But then I had to get work done, and then I had to sort through all the photos I’d taken of our little diversion that involved sisters little Splash and Zorro and later their brother Higgins joined them. I guess I’ll have to post kitten photos each day for a while…(poor me).
It started when I was working around in the bathroom in the morning and Splash saw my shadow—yes, that big puffy thing is me, mostly my hair—on the wall of the tub. She began chasing my shadow as I moved so I caught a few photos. Then I went to pet her and the shadow of my hand got both her and Zorro going and it looked so funny to me too, this big hand reaching out of nowhere to grab the tiny kitten! Making the hand gestures work as shadows with my left hand and snapping photos with my DSLR with my right hand was a trick, but worth it!
Above is fearless little Splash giving me one high five and then two ! Below nothing gets past the mighty Zorro as Splash gives commentary. After those two Higgins is determined to “get that thing” and almost gets gotten in his efforts.
Now it’s Higgins’s turn!
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Beautiful kitty crew. ❤️I love how black cat’s eyes stand out so bright.
That’s the most notable thing about black cats, that contrast between eyes and fur. Scares some people, but I always found it inspiring.
You’re a new reader so I’ll note that these four were siblings who I fostered with their mom and kept to one year old for medical reasons, but found them so inspiring I was hesitant to give them up. Black cats being difficult to adopt out, and I didn’t try too hard, they all stayed with me, five black cats, the best cat decision I ever made. These four stayed close all their lives and would gather and sleep in a heap as when they were kittens, always together, and they even left me at age sixteen all within nine months.
How sweet they got to spend their whole lives together. I agree, I love black cats, I find them magical.
I couldn’t even imagine breaking them up, and I’m so glad I didn’t! Black cats do have a special magic.
They certainly knew how to make what they wanted known. Such a beautiful crew.
Synchronized napping! That needs to be a Cat Olympic sport.
I think Mariposa and Giuseppe are winners!
I hope they got their second breakfast. 🙂 My Penelope likes about 5.
Honestly, no, I never gave in and that’s okay. It helped to keep their weight down and wow were they excited at mealtimes.