Kittens!

For some time now we have known there was a cat living in our shed--today we discovered her kittens! My dad called me out to help him catch the three kittens he had seen when he went out there to do some (very late) spring cleaning, and we ended up finding four, as you can kind of see by the picture to the left. There are two orange, one of them lighter than the other--they're hiding out in the back, as well as a gray and a brown one. All four are girls, and the brown one is very protective, she always is watching me and hissing if I get too close.

When I was picking them up and putting them in our cat carrier (from our previous cat, Pippin) they were scared and feisty, but the orange ones were noticeably cuddlier, though they are all cuddly when they calm down.

Right now they are curled up together protectively, the cat carrier is on the deck table, and my nephew is running around squealing and meowing, too excited about the cats to sit still, but always running back to peek in and giggle whenever little miss brown hisses at him.

Right now the current plan is to get some kitten formula (which my parents are on their way to do now) and then take them to the Animal Shelter within the next few days. Would be the Humane Society, but we've had bad experiences with them in the past (I still miss my Pip!)

Of course I would love to keep one, well, all of them, but half the family is allergic, and I must admit--deep breath, here it comes--I have some responsibility issues. Very forgetful I am, especially when all I want to do is curl up with a book and cuddle with my little fuzzball.

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I have just paused to venture to take each of the kittens out to photograph them separately. In reality, the light orange one is much closer to an off-white, and is much fiercer than the brown, she snapped at me when I tried to take her out, but she was so curled up and shivering I decided she was terrified and let her be. The brown one I've noticed only hisses when the white one does. And now they're meowing! Oh how adorable!

So here are each of the kittens separately. The orange:

The gray:
The brown one:and the white one (only 1 pic):
My favorites are, well, they're all my favorite but if I had to pick I'd choose the brown and the orange. They're all cute and cuddly and love-able, but the orange one is the most adorable and had a beautiful color, and the brown one has such big eyes, and seems very loyal to her sisters.

Well, before I go I'll leave you with one last photo of the four of them together. Aren't they cute?

I do intend on taking more photos, so keep an eye on my flickr account for those.