Showing posts with label pixie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pixie. Show all posts

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Kitten Update

As you know, we adopted a pair of kittens back in April. They are now about 6 1/2 months old, and they have certainly grown! This picture was taken in July -- they are still very close.

Pixie, the little female, is the most difficult to photograph as she tends to blend into one big blur -- especially at night, and even with the flash. This is a particularly good shot (I do get a few). One thing about Pix -- I think she's going to remain small and petite. But not her brother -- Specs is going to be a big cat!

Here are the two of them -- I distracted them from looking out of the window. Unlike Pixie, Specs is very photogenic. This is a good shot of him, though I have to be careful not to get too much of that pink nose! Our front window has a shelf on it just for the cats. It's been really hot out, and really cold in -- so our cheap windows fog up regularly....

...as did my camera lens as I made a quick "shot in the dark" out the front door to catch our neighborhood "bandits." They had been climbing on the treadmill (with the white cover in the previous photo) and trying to get at the birdfeeder. For a while they were nose to nose through the glass with the kittens. It was quite interesting, but they all moved too fast for me to get a picture.

More raccoon pictures coming...

Friday, May 11, 2007

Kittens

We have two new members to our family. Earlier this week, we adopted a couple of new kittens. I really wished we could have taken all four because the others will likely end up in a shelter. But two is really enough for us.

Marc wants them to be indoor-outdoor cats (once they're older, of course). We'll see... We decided not to name them right away because we wanted to see their personalities.


The little black kitten is the female. She's lively, inquisitive and has warmed up to us quickly. I worked from home today and she has slept beside me all day (when she wasn't walking across my laptop!) Marc decided to name her Pixie -- it's a really good choice!

This is "Little Brother". I love his markings -- he's a beautiful cat. However, he's very wary of us and runs at every chance. I think Pixie will bring him around. But we still haven't gotten to know him well enough to give him a name -- so he'll just have to remain Little Brother for a while.