Lainey's Life Style: Kittens (Plus a History of our Cats)

Hello!

Oh, goodness! We are a sick house! N is finally done with his antibiotics, but still on his puffers. C developed a cough with no fever so she's on puffers too! Last week I had some sort of sickness- stomach trouble, weak, tired, feeling awful and then I got a cough! Then K got a cough! AAHHH! I'll be glad when we're all back to our regular health.

Well, we got two new kittens! From C's friend, whose cat had kittens on the day that our other cat Lisa died. These weren't from that litter, though. They were from another litter so they're 12-13 weeks old. C's friend had 18 cats before we got ours and are looking for homes for most of them. There's a wild mother cat who lives outdoors that they can't catch who keeps having kittens, plus a couple of those kittens have had kittens themselves! That's why they have so many.

Anyway, meet Paris and Lilly...

Paris is on the left, Lilly is on the right .

They're both girls. Lilly was already named that and we liked it since it kinda sounds like Lisa, so we kept it. Paris was named Tubs (because she fell into the tub), but we thought that sounded too boyish so we re-named her. Anybody know the (loose) connection to our other cats- Elvis & Lisa? ;-)

BTW, there's no relation between Elvis and Lisa. K and I first got kittens when we lived in Dallas in 1997. A cat who lived in our apartment courtyard had kittens. We decided to adopt two of them. K had to catch them by throwing a blanket over them since they were always running away. We named them Elvis and Bebe (or BB). And not after Elvis Presley, but after Elvis Costello who is a fav singer of K's. We joked that we named Bebe after Bebe Neuwirth, but I guess it was really after BB King- even though our cat Bebe was a girl.

We moved to Kansas City, MO and the cats came with us. Here they are in our apartment.
Elvis is the one on the left with the white and Bebe is on the right.

Here's Elvis.

And here's Bebe.

We had those cats for many years. When K & I were travelling with K's work, my mom looked after them. Finally, my mom brought them up to PEI when she came for the summer of 2001.

Here's Elvis outside in the sun.

Bebe and Elvis in their beds.

Unfortunately, Bebe was a little more timid than Elvis and she ran away in the fall. We never saw her again.

But Elvis stuck around. Here I am in 2003 doing some "nesting" with Elvis on the table.

Here's a picture in the winter of the snow outside our front door (which is now our master bedroom window!).

Elvis trying out the snow.

Elvis remained with us for many years. He eventually went under the Canoe-zzi and died of old age.

We got Lisa and and Babba in 2007. They were barn cats from a friend of my FIL. The kids picked them out. We named Babba after these Little People N had when we lived in Cary, NC in 2005/2006. He had one named Nono and one named Baba. The name also reminded us of our cat Bebe. Babba was a boy cat.

We thought we might name the other cat Nono, but then thought it would be confusing to tell her "No"- "No, Nono, get down from there!"- so we called the girl cat Lisa, after Elvis Presley's daughter, and to remember us of our cat, Elvis. Plus, Lisa kinda looked like Elvis.