Our Kitties Come Home

MAY 29, 2009
We contacted Hood River Cat Rescue in hopes of adopting a couple of kittens. On May 31, we met with Jen Schwab, the foster mom raising the rescued kittens we wanted (and about 10 others). We picked out littermates — a brother and sister, and agreed to pick them up near the end of June, after they're 8 weeks old, weigh more than 2¼lbs, and have had their shots etc.

JUNE 10, 2009
Today, we emailed Jen Schwab again and she mentioned that the kittens are growing and are very playful and socialized. Then she mentioned that "they sleep in each others arms, with Winston in between." Winston is the brother of the two kittens we adopted.

Pennie and I looked at each other and immediately emailed back that we could not break up the trio of siblings, so … we will be the proud (and frazzled) parents of THREE kittens as of 4pm on June 26.

JUNE 26, 2009
We drove across the bridge to White Salmon to pick up our three kittens. As we placed them in the carrier, we received instructions, medical history, toys and food from Jen’s assistant. We found out earlier that instead of two boys and a girl, we have two girls and a boy. Thus their names currently will be Louise & Clark and Sacagawea (we were going to name the black kittie York until we were told “he” was a “she”).

Louise is gray and white, is tiny (1 lb 8 oz.) and very cute. Clark is black & white with a distinctive black stripe on his chin, weighs 2 lbs 5 oz., and climbed the carpeted stairs to the second floor immediately upon arrival. Clark the explorer — we’ll have to keep an eye on him. Sacie is all black, the largest at 2 lbs 8 oz., and very frisky.

After a couple hours of discovery — including finding a hole in the kitchen baseboards that led to a secret place behind the cupboards — they began playing in earnest. Pennie and I settled into our chairs and after a few minutes we both noticed the silence. “Where are they?” we both asked. After a few minutes of searching we found all three asleep under the TV stand. Home and safe at last.

Name correction: It turned out that "Sacagawea" was just too clumsy to say. Originally Hood River Cat Rescue identified the black kittie as a male named Winston. When "he" turned out to be a "she", we decided to change "Winston" to "Winnie".

We have been watching and laughing as winsome Winnie, sweet little Louise, and Clark the Explorer alternate between full-speed hyper-kittie play and time-out, purr-laced coma-naps since morning. :*)

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