OMG Kittens!

News From Kitten Headquarters presents a very special post today: A compilation of both adoption success stories and cute, cute pictures of babies who are in foster! Are you ready for the adorabless-ness? I think not!

Meet Sugarplum.

Now called Holly Noel.

Holly N. came to us from Multnomah County Animal Services. Because she had lost some weight between when I got the notice and when she was actually transported, she had to spend some time in foster care. Fortunately she went to one of our best and most constant fosters, who immediately fattened her up and got her preadopted!

Mommy is the best bed.

Apparently Holly's new momma is the mother of a woman who adopted two fosters from the same parent several months earlier and decided it was time for a little sugar of her own! She spent exactly two days in the shelter- the day she came in and the day she got surgery. This is the ideal we go for for all of our kittens. And she was our last foster of 2010!

Looks like she's made herself right at home.

This is Aubie.

Wait, wait, get my good side.

Most of us know Monday as that fateful day when Auburn cheated and won the BCS championship. While good sportsmanship was not on the table, it did help one little feline earn himself a home, and fast!

There's a place out east of here where animal control is "go round up cats and shoot them". Fortunately there are kind people out there also who are fighting this form of control, and we often take in the result of that fight. Aubie was a kitten from just those people, and he sprang from his carrier and into my arms in a flurry of purrs and cuddles.

Love me!

Someone decided it would be a good idea to bet with a shelter out Auburn way that if Auburn won, we would name a kitten Aubie. On the flip side, if Oregon had won, they'd have a kitten named Oregon right now. While I protested this bet (I didn't even want to think about the game after we lost), I made good on it and named this little tiger-like darling after them.

He lasted 5 hours on the floor. That very evening a very nice young woman came in and fell in love with his lovey-dovey self. She didn't even mind that he was named after Auburn. ;)

Way to turn up the charm buddy!

You Are Not Prepared

If you aren't sitting down, please do so.

 

 

All together now: "D'AWWWWWW"

We had two groups of kittens come in from out east that needed to go into foster homes. That cutie above came in with two siblings and momma, below:

I'm a great momma!

Hang in there, baby!

RAWR!

 

 

Okay, okay, I could inundate you all day with adorable pictures of these guys, but I won't. Needless to say, they are now in a wonderful foster home where the sneezles and goopy eyes are being well taken care of.

It's actually kinda hard to clean tiny kitten eyes.

Here is our second group of young-ins, a little older but no less cute:

Yes?

We's sleepin here.

I know I'm cute, gosh.

Okay, one more:

Please, no more pictures!

Big shout out to Nancy, who puts up with my constant requests to take pictures of my darlings.