NEW KITTIES

Hello Readers,

just wanted to let you know that there are kittens at my house now!  Their names are Sam and Leo.  They are about six months old and are brothers are very sweet and love-able.  I decided that you might want to see some pictures of them so I took many pictures of them during Thanksgiving break and took a few more pictures of them over winter break.  And I will also tell you all about them first before pictures.



Some of my parents' friends new that my parents were looking for kittens, partially because they thought my other cat, Cookie, was lonely.  I did not think this was the case but whatever.  Early to middle November one of my parents' friends were at a vets office and there were two kitties there that wanted to be adopted.  So my parents went to go see the kittens at the vets office.  They spent a half hour with the kittens and liked them very much so they decided to adopt them.

Around the middle/late of November my parents went to the vets office to pick up Sam and Leo and take them home.  At first Sam and Leo were very frightened and hid and my parents could not get them to come out.  My parents thought they would have to find another home for the kitties until my brother Jim thought they should keep the kitties in the patio room until they adjusted.  This was a very good idea because we had a place where we could talk to the kitties and they could get used to us being their new family.  Sam and Leo stayed in the patio room during the first half of my Thanksgiving break and got very comfy there.

After about a week in the patio room, we let Sam and Leo explore the living room.  My dad jury rigged some tall gates out of plywood since Sam and Leo could jump over the baby gate that we used to use to keep Buddy out of places.  Sam and Leo found some new favorite places to sit and had a much bigger space to explore than the patio room.  After about a week in the living room my parents let them explore most of the rest of the house and they are now very comfortable here.

Sam and Leo are brothers and are both white with spots (Sam's are black and Leo's are gray) and big fluffy tails, but I think they are not very hard to tell apart.

Leo is white with gray spots.  He has two spots on the top of his head right next to each other.  He has 3 spots in a triangle pattern on his back and one spot in front of his tail. The fur on his upper back legs is thicker than the fur on his lower back legs so it looks like he is wearing kitty pants.  Leo's face seems more pointy than Sam's and his fur sits down more than Sam's.

Leo!

Leo on the side table

Leo being sneaky

Leo being snoozy

Leo is the more explorative of the two.  He is more energetic and likes to play more than Sam does.  He likes to go see what new things are happening and what new people are in the house.  He likes to sleep in the rocking chair in the living room and he watches me with much curiosity when I am exercising.  He lets his paws dangle over the edge of wherever he is resting.  He is less likely to run away if you go to pet him if you are new in the house, but he is not a very snuggily cat and he is very quiet.

Sam is white with black spots.  He has a big spot over most of the top of his head.  He has two big black spots on his back and one narrow spot on his left side.  a lot of his back legs are black.  Sam has a little black spot at the bottom of his nose.  Jim thinks that Sam looks like Hitler and he kind of did.  He and Leo had one of their play time wrestling matches and Sam's nose got kind of scuffed up so now he looks like he has an evil villain mustache.  Sam has fluffier fur than Leo.[pictures of sam now]

Sam!

Hello!

peekaboo

Sam being sleepy on the couch

Sam is the more shy of the two.  He is not as interested in being in the middle of the action and does not care as much about new things.  He is more likely to run away if he does not know you.  When he does get to know you, however, he is much more snuggily than Leo.  He loves to be cuddled and will gladly curl up in your lap and sit there and purr.  He is more talkative than Leo.  Sam likes to perch on top of things more often than Leo does and likes to sit on the table and help me with my homework.

Here are some pictures of the cats together:

Jim being dumb

good morning!

what are you doing with that vacuum.
you cannot clean the carpet.
you are cats

sleepy sleepy cute cute

table cats!

Leo keeping lookout for Sam while he naps

Sam and Leo have some cat toys that they love to play with.  They have a toy that is a wire that you hold that has little rolls of cardboard at one end.  you can just sit and move the wire around and they will chase it around in circles and try to bat it out of the air and catch it.  Sam likes to try to chew the cardboard rolls.  If you want to get the toy out of their paws you can push on the wire instead of pulling on it.  Sam and Leo also have some green stuffed mice kind of like the ones here (but with no tails and red pom poms for ears) that they like to wrestle with.  Sam and Leo also have some catnip toys they like to carry around.  Sam carries the sausage shaped one around like it's a sausage.  They also have tunnels that they like to chase each other through and hide from each other in.

I am very happy to have Sam and Leo around the house to help me with my homework and to play with.  I will probably post some more pictures later, maybe when it is their birthday.

-Tom Anesta

PS: thank you to Mr. Kris Reisz for the humorous mustache post.