COT - July 21, 2009 - Kittens

Felicia gave Birth last Friday.
It startet around midnight.
Number one arrived around 2 am.
She struggeled for around 17 hours.
This time you can click on each photo to enlarge)

Feets first. We helped Felicia. But in vain.

Dead. Wrong way out. Besides too large for a first time Birth.
No Tail. You See?
Summary before more photos:
At 4 am #2 arrived.
Healthy. Great.
At 4:30 am #3 arrived
Papa went to bed.

Her is # 2 and 3. The Black one is #2.

At 8.00 am # 4 arrived.
Healthy.
Proud mama Felicia .

Here you see the 3 living when papa wake up.
Mama Felicia was very hungry and was away eating for a short while.

At 4:45 pm # 5 arrived. Papa did not want to disturb the new Cat Family, so this is what he was allowed to publish.

Result: 4 living kittens. They seems to be very healty.

I would have liked to post more from this very special event.
You see, we have waited many years tho give Felicia and Rosa the opportunity
to have kittens. Last year was in vain.
This year, Felicia succeeded. We are very happy she did.
Rosa still struggles.
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Besides, we are going on Vacation.
So what to do?
Planning is one side of the challenge.
The other is what's best for the Cats.

The result will be:
Felicia and her 4 kittens will stay with Sylvi - indoor. While we are away.

Rosa and Stompa (Sylvi's Cat) will stay in the Summerhouse
with Cat-sitters, who will live here, when we are on Vacation. Here they are Tuesday Evening.

We think this is the best and safest result for both the Cats and people.

I hope you, my dear reader, understand, this situation has caused us
some logistic challenges. When talking about the Cats.
Our Garden, travel logistics, and my work, my daughter's pregancy, well,
you might understand papa have had not much time to post or comment.

Felicia and her 4 Kittens will be transported from our Summerhome
on Wednesday to Sylvi.
While we are on Vacation: No Photos of the Kittens. Sorry.
(May be I will take and post some photos from the Move of Felicia and her Kittens from Summer Home to Sylvi, during our Vacation).

More Cats here at Gattinas.

Cats onTuesday - December 2 - 2008

Cats on Tuesday friends my have missed us. Papa has been a shadow of him self as blogger since the trouble with pictures started a month ago.

During the Winter the Sun is very low above the Horizen here at 60 degrees North.
We do not complain.

We can play with shadows

Form shapes

And papa can play with his Camera

And fix the contrasts and colours

We have fun all of us then - in the Sun and Shadow

More Cats here

PS. I discovered Only 257 photos in my Pica web-album. Average size around 20 kb. How can that be 1 GB?
Well I had to delete some pictures, in waiting for a new permanent solution. For the time beeing it's the only way to have posts with Photos. Still tooooooo muuuuuuch to do at work.

Cats on Tuesday August 5 - 2008

Ost og Mus - Cheese and Mouse

My Son and DIL do have two kittens, named Ost and Moo.
I have hardly seen them, even more shy than Felicia.

Only late in the evening they come to look at that new strange animal in their Home.

I'm sceptical - Moo ensures herself

Moo is the most shy - she has yet to come close to me.

Ost tries his best to show his courage - even wash in front of me.

While I was reading this morning, something happened on the Deck.

A Mouse entered the Scene. YOU MUST ENLARGE.

Mats went out to take some pictures of the new visitor, but who but Ost (means Cheeze in English) quickly followed him?

Hi, stop there. Who are you?

I'm Mouse.

And I'm Cheeze (Ost in Norwegian)

Nice to meet you

more Cats on Tuesday

Cats on Tuesday - March 4 - 2008

Cats on Tuesday

Rosa in front and Felicia behind

Last Saturday Rosa and Felicia did wash each other. The ancient Norwegian word for Saturday is Laugardag, meaning Washing Day. Our Cats, of course, do know that. (Had nothing to do with Springtime and the fact Sundays is Half-a-Pill Day)

Here you see them when working together





And here, Felicia. What is she mieewing for? Her sister Rosa? A Male? Could it be me? LOL.


Five things you should know about Cats
1 Cat's sense of smell is 14 times stronger than a human's!

2 Besides their noses, cats can smell with something called the"Jacobson's
organ",located in the upper surface of their mouths. This is what cats are using when they scrunch up their eyes and open their mouths after sniffing something intently!

3 Cats have 244 bones in their bodies! (About 40 more than humans!)

4 Cats have 32 muscles in each ear!

5 Cats only sweat from the pads of their paws; ever noticed how wet the examination room table gets when you take your cat to the vet?

More Cats at Gattinas