Mancat Monday

Ok, no Momma Cat Monday today, gotta give the boys a chance...and this one knows his feminine side, he likes flowers, especially if they coordinate and show off his purrty furs. This is Taddy Porter, who now lives in Pennsylvania, and has a Jack Russell Terrier for a buddy!

Ps: these flowers are plastic, too MOL!

MommaCat Monday

No, Coco hasn't had her babies yet.

But here's a photo of her I took on Sunday,
with her round belly and her milk starting
to come in.

And below, some past photos of the kittening tent, and then, at about 4 weeks when they are starting to use the litterbox, they make the transition into my master bathroom, bigger and easy to clean up--baby kittens are messy! The step in their food as they are learning to eat, the have lapses in finding the litterboxes til they learn, and yes, they get underfoot!





During this time, from 3 days of age to 21 days of age, I take them out of the tent at least three times a day, I bring the kitten bed up onto my bed and kiss and nuzzle each one. At first, they sometimes hiss at me, til they become familiar with my "scent". Sometimes, they will even hiss if I have just brushed my teeth...that's how important sense of smell is to a cat, it tries to protect them from intruders in their territory.


During those days 3-21, I also do what is called Early Neurological Stimulation, which has been shown to help them in learning situations or when introduced to strangers, to be more active and more exploratory than kittens not stimulated like this and much more willing to greet and play with strangers.

Here is a link to more info on this technique:
Early Neurological Stimulation

Mancat Monday

This is Furrydance Bossiney, 1988-2005. My favorite, missing him still.

Mancat Monday

Disco NoFurNo, lookin' like the Sheik of Araby...

Mancat Monday

Looking quite the debonaire cat,
is Angelwaves Undeniably
Sentimental, known to his
girlfriends as Sexy Sammy...

Mancat Monday

We can't wait til Wordless Wednesday, though, cuz Teri said she is going to make it a Wordy Wednesday and catch everyone up on what's been happening at the Furrydance place.

Here's a Mancat for Monday:


This is a photo of Lomacitas Drunken Monkey, affectionately known as Monkey. He was the first daddy cat at Furrydance and he retired about 6 years ago and lives in Missouri now with another Furrydance cat named Xerxes.

Mancat Monday

Presenting Disco NoFurNo...

ManCat Monday

While little Jack isn't quite a man yet (his snip comes on January 21st), I thought he looked rather lion-like in this photo and I could imagine him posing just like this as a grown up cat, too.