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  1. 1. My favourite kitten is...

    • Black and white kitten in red basket
      16
    • Brown and white tabby kitten
      29
    • Black and white kitten sleeping
      17
    • Gray tabby kitten
      43
    • Calico kitten
      83


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This is just for fun and kittens.  I hope the attachments work.  Please just vote for your favourite kitten.

 

You can only vote for one and there is no "other option." 

 

The winning kitten gets a prize!

 

ETA: These pictures are owned by me and are of my own kittens.

 

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Seriously need an "all of the above" option.

 

Actually, I need more information ... like, more pics.  And perhaps little videos.  Sort of like we're doing a Miss America pageant, with evening gown competition, swimsuit, talent portion, interview.  Congeniality award, voted on by fellow kittens.

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Ok - I picked, but I want an all of the above option!  How can you function with that level of cute around you at all times!?  I'd get nothing done at all.  :001_tt1: :001_wub:

 

 

There are more than these.   :)

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Seriously need an "all of the above" option.

 

Actually, I need more information ... like, more pics.  And perhaps little videos.  Sort of like we're doing a Miss America pageant, with evening gown competition, swimsuit, talent portion, interview.  Congeniality award, voted on by fellow kittens.

 

They do all have back stories.  Some of them have truly heartwrenching backstories.  I didn't want to name them or give away their details for fear of influencing the vote.  Almost all of them have been named by my husband, who has a ... unique... sense of humour.

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We also need a vote for "It's time for Audrey to get an orange tabby." ðŸ±ðŸ±ðŸ±ðŸ’—

 

There are a couple of orange tabby barn kittens.  These are house kitties, though. 

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Seriously need an "all of the above" option.

 

Actually, I need more information ... like, more pics.  And perhaps little videos.  Sort of like we're doing a Miss America pageant, with evening gown competition, swimsuit, talent portion, interview.  Congeniality award, voted on by fellow kittens.

 

:lol:  :lol:  :lol: I'm thoroughly enjoying imagining how all of this would go down :lol:

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Adopt one!

 

Or forty!

 

I thought cats just kind of happened; I've never considered seeking one out :p But now we are down to 4 and it's lonely here :'(

 

But really, right now we have a cat struggling with kidney/urination issues, so I don't want a new cat to think it's ok to pee everywhere :/

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Dh brought a calico into our marriage. She became more my cat than his. She was the best cat ever.  We've had three tabbys since then. They've all been awesome cats. This was a hard vote. I went with calico because I miss Maggie.  :001_wub:

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I love polls and I love cats, so this is practically a perfect thread.  :)

 

I went with the brown and white tabby kitten, although I confess I thought he or she was an adult. Generally speaking I like adult cats even better than kittens.  :leaving:

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Kitties!!! Your comment makes me curious about their back stories. For awhile we had a trio of kitties we referred to as The Heads because we'd nicknamed them Meathead, Pinhead and Bonehead. It really suited their personalities. :laugh:

 

Almost all of them have been named by my husband, who has a ... unique... sense of humour.=

 

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Okay.  It seems the poll is quite clear, so I will tell you their names and stories.

 

First up is black and white kitten in red basket (I tried to re-add the picture but I can't figure that out, so see the OP if you forgot who is who).

 

She was named by my husband.  You will notice a theme in his naming.  This little girl was found when my dh was at the local dump.  He heard crying, but it was raining pretty hard and he couldn't find her right away.  Finally, he went around the metal pile and there she was on a bit of a small hill.  She came running to him when he did that sound he does that makes all cats flock to him.  When he went to pick her up, he saw the rest of what he thinks was her family.  The loader had been in recently to shove the metal pile and her family was in there.  She made it out. 

Her name is 8675309.  We pronounce it Jenny.

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Next up is brown and white tabby.  In this picture, she is about 6 months old or so.  When she was found (again at the dump), she had a broken leg.  She was very skinny and small but we took her to the vet anyway and they tried to set a cast for her.  The cast, however, was too big, and ended up sliding down, hurting her.  So they re-cast it, but this time it caused a pressure sore that left a huge hole worn into her leg.  It was horrific and I remember the vet saying, "she will be okay. It's amazing how well they adapt on three legs."  I just burst into tears.  I couldn't stand the thought of that.  Long story short... thanks to a boardie who recommended Manuka honey, this little girl not only healed her wound but also her break.  It was, to put it mildly, a traumatic few weeks for her, but she pulled through.

 

Dh also named her.  She is Maully Hatchet.

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Third up is black and white sleeping kitten.

​This sweet guy was abandoned by his mom in our woodlot.  He was micro-tiny when we found him and his eyes were crusted over from that kitten respiratory infection.  Quite literally, the first moment he ever saw anything was when dh wiped the crust from his infant blue eyes. He has a fixation on dh now and does the forehead bump/touch with him any opportunity he is given.

 

I named him Winston Smith, after one of my favourite contemporary artists.  He's a spunky little punk. 

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Fourth is the gray tabby.  We are not sure from whence he came.  He appeared one day on the farmyard lane.  He had baling twine wrapped around him, but it was not haying season, so it's odd where he would have gotten that.  At any rate, he just kept following me and walked right into the house, walked up to a kibble dish and settled in for a meal. Just like that. 

​I wanted to name him Ramon. Dh said that was ridiculous and I should know better.  He is now Joey Ramone.  Duh.  Of course I should have known better.

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Last up, and the crowd favourite is a little girl who had a very rough start in life.  Like Joey, we are not sure from whence she came.  I found her in a flower bed in front of the house.  I thought she belonged to a barn momma and tried to put her back there. The next day was rainy and cold and I must have walked by the flower bed half a dozen times that day.  I don't know when she was put back in the flower bed, but when I saw her again, she'd obviously been there a while. I went to scoop her up and she was limp.  I was so sad wondering how long had she been there? Why didn't I look? Why didn't I hear or see her?  I went going to find a dish cloth to wrap her in to bury her.  When I put her in the dish cloth, she lifted her head a bit, wobbly and weak.  We got her dry and gave her kitten milk, but we couldn't get the vet on the line and none of us thought she'd make it the night.  The next day, she was still weak, but alive, so we took her to the vet who also didn't think she was going to last another day.  She did, though, and is shiny and healthy now.  She pretty much runs the whole house. 

 

Together, dh and I named her Little Miss Stevie May Vaughan.

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I second Catwoman's motion to make this the Thread of the Month. They are all adorable, but I picked the calico even before I knew her story.

 

I miss being owned by a cat. When I was young, my family always had one. DH is severely allergic so we don't have any cats now.

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I voted for the calico, but actually it's a tortoiseshell, not a calico. It is my favorite color of kitteh. :001_wub:

 

Yes, this. 

 

We call them Galinha cats (pronounced Gall-lean-ya) because we had a little tortoiseshell kitten named Galinha, who was the best kitten/cat ever, but some evil neighbors of ours forced us to get rid of her. (long, awful story, and we're all still a little scarred by that even though it's been several years now). 

 

I think tortoiseshells will always be our family favorite, forever, because of that. 

 

But all of these kitties, and all of their stories, are wonderful and I wanted to vote for all of them. 

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I voted for the calico, but actually it's a tortoiseshell, not a calico. It is my favorite color of kitteh. :001_wub:

Oh yes, she is a calico.  She has white on her as well.  Her black and orange is tortie, but she has the requisite white to be tri-colour, hence calico, on her chest belly and feet.  From the definition of calico: "In genetic terms, calico cats are tortoiseshells in every way, except that in addition they express a white spotting gene."

 

ETA: I have another picture that shows her whiteness better, but it won't let me upload more as I've reached my limit.  I will see if I can post it elsewhere and link to it.

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Audrey, thanks for sharing all the kitty stories. I read them to dh...yeah, we're dorks when it comes to cats. Our Maggie was a true tortoiseshell. I thought she was but never had read the distinguishing features until you shared them here.

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