yet more gratuitous kitten pictures

As you can see, Worrals is taking great care of 'her' kitten, even letting him share a bowl of food with her and washing him into oblivion and sometimes with enough vigour to hurl him off the back of the sofa onto the seat, whereat he gets up, shakes himself and scrambles back up for more.

More gratuitous kitten pictures

with a little sweater made from an old sock we licked the problem of Hurricane getting cold ...

He likes to help

Worrals keeps him nice and clean and cuddles him warm

 Biggles has mastered the difficult art of catching his tail tip; the third pic here is of him replete and happy after his evening milk.

 Bought them a feathery toy ....

 He still has a milky nose ... they like to cuddle up together

 Gimlet 

they like to dig in to breakfast.

Gimlet, wondering if he can get his brother's tail

And now, just to remind everyone that once Worrals was this tiny, I came across a pic of her and Rebel when we first had them ....

Way back in 2011....

Gratuitous kitty pics

Fostering Kitties

We got very depressed after losing Kelly and Leo in short order, but the rest have been doing very well and have been looking after us.
And then we were asked to foster 3 kittens, whose mother had a litter of 7 and could not cope.  So 3 little boys arrived.  initially dubbed Huey, Dewey and Louie they quickly got other nicknames ... Biggles has flying goggles; Gimlet, grey and white, really went with Biggles, in literary terms, and the third is a little dark grey panther who has lavender toes and is definitely part blue ... and so as he also has a merlin engine of purr, the reason Merlin was Merlin, he became Hurricane.  If he'd been a girl he would have been Spitfire; and Lancaster, the other plane to have the engine, was a very big name for a very little boy.

And the first night we thought we were going to lose him. He is definitely the runt of the litter.  Simon cuddled him all day, giving him little and frequent meals suitable for a younger kitten than the 3 weeks old they are.
Well, he seems to be doing well, but where Biggles and Gimlet burst suddenly out of being balls of floof into being regular kittens, learning to play, he is still a bit like a drowned rat. 

Hurricane ...

Biggles and Gimlet

 Biggles, all foresquare and at the front of all things

Gimlet still a bit behind Biggles but working on that

Ace adopted Hurricane and helped nurse him

And now some gratuitous pictures of the others

  As you can see, they are enjoying the room of doom becoming the rumpus room - note Cecil's lion cut for the summer! 

I appear to be missing pics of Rebel and Pixie ... will have to rectify that.