KITTTTTENNNSSSSS!!!!
It's a long story! It all started off with a lady coming in to the office to see Iain. She had a very young kitten in her hands and explained she works in the vets next door and kinda fosters rescue cats and she always had kittens around her. I immediately fell in love with her (the kitten, not the lady!) but as Iain is allergic to cats we had to pass on her. . . I rushed to pick up Maaike to let her see and, waddyaknow - quicker than you could say "whiskers" she had said she would love to add a new kitten to her family.
Meanwhile, back in the shop, Iain has realised that he hasn't sneezed around a cat for ages and came in to announce that we maybe could take the wee kitten - she really is gorgeous .. . *rolls eyes at his timing*
Le-Ann the cat lady had another litter of three kittens and we arranged to go visit the, when they were only a week old. I put our name down for one, quickly followed with two, and by the time it came to go pick them up I said we would take all three "for the meantime", just to keep them together until Le-Ann found another family for the third. There are two boys and one girl, and David has to decide which boy he wants to keep, with Jessica already having decided on the girl.
Their names are Flossie, Jasper, and Jacob. Points to you if you can identify why the boys were called these names.
We got them the other day and have had lots of fun with them so far. They are great fun to watch and everyone is enjoying them. It will be extremely hard to decide which one to part with and I have a sneaking suspicion that perhaps we may not ever make that decision. As I keep being reminded, it is as easy to have three as two. Watch this space!
In theory they have been added to the family in order to keep the mice and rats away from the garden but whether this is successful remains to be seen.
I have finally taken the plunge and added a Flickr account so I can post more photos than the ones that appear here. You can find it here: there are loads more photos of the kittens online. I have already taken 221 photos of them, which would smother the Flickr account, but the best ones are all there.
And no, Iain has yet to sneeze because of them. So, YAY!
