Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

Yes, they will be adopted out.  I haven't put a huge effort into finding homes for them YET but the time has come.  Skippy is beginning to wean them and spending less and less time with them.  It's also time to get HER into the vet...so we are working on trapping her as I type...if you don't ever hear from me again...SHE WON!!!   :crackup:   :crackup:   

I had really hoped to find homes with someone I knew or sort of knew and not STRANGERS.         I can't seem to convince any of my friends that they either need another cat or need a cat period.  How rude!!!

Hugs,
Shantell

I'd like to put my name down too, Jodi.  Have a wonderful day!!!

Thanks....I have to agree, Skippy does make some pretty cute little babies.  They are all very sweet even when they are wrapped around my ankles or crawling up my pant legs  :crackup:   :crackup:

I shared this in the comments on my blog...but it has been with a very heavy heart and MANY tears that I have decide to adopt out all the kittens and not keep any.  I already have FOUR outside kitties who have found me and decided I belong to them.    They all have some kind of issue whether it be health or mental    and I'm just don't think it's fair to any of them to add another one.  I have grown very attached to ALL of these kittens and quite honestly I'm not sure I could choose just one.   If it's possible to have post-kitty blues then I am suffering from it in the worse way.  I've been spending every moment possible playing with them...silly huh!?

I feel fortunate that at least one of them will be going to a friend so I will be able to get update on him like I do with Max and his littermates.  I'm not sure what will happen with the others as I have not found permanent homes for them yet...I'm being rather fussy about it.  I feel so blessed that Aleta and her family adopted the other litter...thank you Aleta.

Hugs,

I posted what will probably be the last of the kitten pictures on my blog last night.

Take a peek if you wish!!

Hugs,

Oh Millie...you have the biggest heart!!!   I think these little and not so little critters are purposely "dropped" at your doorstep. 

I think a few bears can wait to be born!!!

My friend, it doesn't change even when they are out of the home.  You are still Mom...your career just takes on another job duty...one that although different is just as rewarding.  Although I often miss my children being young, I relish in having watch them grow into young men/woman and know that I have done the best job I could do...and am proud of them and of ME. 

As I mentioned in my post, I never wanted children and came very close to giving my oldest up for adoption.  What a HUGE mistake that would have been.  I thank the powers that be every single day that I made a different choice at that very young age.  So I guess for me, I just cherish each stage of their lives because I almost gave it ALL up.

So, I hope that while you mourn and feel that time is passing you by so quickly, you will remember to celebrate it all too.  The best for both of you is still ahead.

I don't really have a favorite flower and I don't have a picture because the deer eat them....GRRRRRRRR...but I really love SWEET PEAS!  They are sweet (thus the name) delicate and simple.

I just love them all.  I may have found homes for two of them.  One to my dear friend, Sue.  She wants one of the apricot ones and the little orange one to a young couple I know (that is if her hubby says YES.)  I'm trying really hard to only adopt them out to people I know or through people I know to ensure they go to good homes.

Thanks for peeking!!!

Jodi, my prayers are with you.  I know how difficult divorce is whether it's your choice or a choice made for you...neither are an easy road to take. 

Take care of you...

Hugs,

By request, I've added some new photos to my blog...

Take peek if you wish... (link under my avatar).

Hugs,

I couldn't resist...

I have NEVER known what I wanted to do...seriously.  When I graduated from high school I had plans to eventually go to law school (I can't even imagine now) but well....I had a baby 18 months later.  Oops!!  This coming from someone who NEVER wanted to have children (another...I can't even imagine now).

I think I'm too much of a free spirit to actually settle on ONE thing.  I'm just too easily bored even as a child I fluttered about.

:crackup:   :crackup:   :crackup:

Another milestone...my third and youngest child passed his driver's test today.   I sat there in the DMV on pins & needles...I could hardly contain myself.  When the testing official came in and shook my hand and said 'congratulations Mom, your son did a fantastic job" I almost fainted with relief.

And...then on the way home I realized...all my children are now licensed drivers....EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!

I can see the wrinkles and feel the grey hairs forming as I type!!!

Shouldn't you be phrasing that? 

What DO you want to be WHEN you grow up?   :crackup:

Funny thing, Debbie...I did JUST that and sprinkled a wee bit of litter in one corner from Skippy's litterbox...they've been a lot more interested in it ever since.   :crackup:   :crackup:   They'll figure it out.  I also think Skippy was checking it out last night so maybe she's "helping"...in her weird way. 

I've gone and started calling them little names...I try not to do that because it only makes it harder to let them go...I'm in BIG trouble now.

Tigerlily

Marmalade

Scooter - this one's back legs are weaker and he can't quite stand up on them as well as the other...they kind of sprawl out like a younger kittens...doesn't help when his siblings pounce on him all the time either... :crackup:  so he scoots a lot.  I've been taking him out by himself and letting him wander a bit.

The Twins -- two kittens that looks so much alike I can hardly tell them apart except one is a crybaby...wants me to pick him up all the time.  I haven't quite settle on individual names for them yet.

Oh Mary,      

That is such a terribly sad story.  What terrible people to do that...GRRRRRRRRR.

These kittens are actually siblings of Aleta's Max.  She adopted Max from me last spring along with his 3 littermates that her son and daughter now have.  I was VERY lucky to have found wonderful homes for them with Aleta and her family.

I hope to be equally as lucky with these little bundles of energy and then get their mother in for her "attitude adjustment"...which as of about an hour ago she desperately needs.       

I introduced them today to some kitten food...well Missy Skippy thinks it's for HER.  She actually pushed them out of the way and ate ALL of it as they were trying to get some for themselves.  They also don't understand the litterbox...they just play in it...silly kitties.   I just keep tossing them in it and saying...kitties go poo here...not on the floor. 

I'm once again not getting ANY bearmaking done!!

You crack me up!!!!

That's kind of like stalking your stalkers, isn't it.   :crackup:   :crackup:

I don't get it either...and who cares.  Just be you!!  Your blog is wonderful.  I check it out all the time and love it.  If you post something new...great...if not I check back another day.  I think that's what blogs are about...just keeping in touch.   I hardly have any comments on mine and for about 2.5 seconds my feelings were a wee bit hurt and thought maybe it was stupid, and boring but then I just got over it and moved on with what's really important to me and comments on my blog is not high on my priority list.  :)

Do what you can...creativity comes in waves...at least for me it does.

They are so cute, Sonya!!!  You have probably said this already and I've missed it but are you keeping both puppies?  Please say you are?   

That picture of Max just cracks me up!!!

You know, Daphne...with the price of gas these days...$3.36/gal (what I paid last week) you could fly cheaper.  When we moved to Connecticut in 2000, we flew our cats (2) on the plane with us...in soft carriers...in the cabin.  They did fine...we slightly sedated them so they just pretty much slept the whole time.  Now...with one of the kittens (who sleeps all the time anyway)...well you get where I'm going...

Now, Aleta dear...you know where to find me!!!

I'd keep them all if I could...they are so sweet.  I just adore each one...the little furballs.

Hugs,

Here are pictures I took this evening of Tigerlily playing peek-a-boo with me...the little cutie pie.

The other kittens were busy having a little snack!!!   

She and the other little apricot colored kitten were busy terrorizing their mother.      They were on the other side of the umbrella literally chewing on her feet.  I tried several times to get pictures of them but they were all little furry butts, feet and tails flying around.  I tell you, these kittens were little spazettas yesterday. 

P.S.  Tigerlily has little smudges of orange showing through on her.   It looks likes she rubbed up against Skippy and some of her orange fur has rubbed off....like paint. 

Your wish is my command...

"Hello, Shantell...can I come out and play...Mamma is busy right now...hurry before she notices I'm missing."   

"Oh...me too, me too...don't forget me!!!"   Hurry hurry....

(seriously...this is TWO different kittens...I can barely tell them "apart)

Little babies starting to play.  You can see them turning into mini predators...pouncing on each other AND momma Skippy's feet.  (Which is where the other two little hooligans were the entire time I was doing these pictures.)

"Oooh...what's this big thing we can hide in...isn't this fun!!!  Let's stay in here, Marmalade (little orange kitten) and attack the others when they come back...or take a nap."

They are growing so fast.  They really aren't very big...they still fit in the palm of my hand.  Tomorrow I'm going to find a smaller litterbox and start litterbox training...it's time already.   They can't quite get in the one I have...it's too tall.  I need a shallower one.

Enjoy!!!

Edit:  I've added a couple photos in Post # 11.

Very nice visual aid, Laura...I could have used that a couple weeks ago...

I sat down today updated my links section...if for some reason I've missed you (and I may have missed someone) and you would like to be included, PLEASE don't be shy and just PM me and I'll be happy to add you.  I'm now cross-eyed and have a headache.         With all these beary links I think it's longer than my blog  postings 

Hugs,
Shantell

Louis & Garnet,

I too am so sorry.  Losing pets is such a difficult time...I don't care what anyone says...it IS like losing a member of the family.

Hugs to both of you!!!

:hug:   :hug:

Marlys,

Your blog looks wonderful...I'll be adding you to my ever growing list on my own blog...WELCOME.  It's kind of fun isn't it?

Your children are beautiful...they grow up so fast...sigh!!

Hugs,
Shantell