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POSTED BY: Kwicko
UPDATED: Thursday, November 29, 2012 04:25
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A new addition to the Kwicko family:
She came to us last night, via a friend.
She's tiny, she's sweet, she's bold and fearless, she's already bossing the dog around and standing her ground against the two other cats.
We're thinking of calling her "Khaleesi".
And yes, she has two different colored eyes - one blue, one green.
She also has a total of 24 toes, making her a polydactyl cat. She has five toes on each rear paw instead of the usual four, and seven on each front, instead of the usual five. Two of the front toes on each paw are acting as opposable thumbs, giving her quite a bit of extre dexterity.
But mostly she's just incredibly cute. Jeepie, my dog, already loves her, and just follows her around, not chasing, just slowly following, tongue out, tail wagging. She treats her different than the older cats, too, as if she realized this is just a baby, and doesn't yet know the rules or how things work. The other cats get near her food, she usually pounces at them and runs them off, semi-playfully. Khaleesi actually walked up to the food bowl while Jeepie was eating, and crawled inside the bowl. Jeepers didn't have any reaction - she just laid down in front of her bowl and waited for Khaleesi to jump out of it.
Her favorite thing to do at the moment is curl up in the crook of my neck and shoulder and fall asleep. I woke up at 3 this morning with her nose in my ear and her loudly purring in her sleep. It doesn't get much better than that, if you ask me.
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero
"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012
Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"
Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."
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Opposable thumbs??
Scary! 
King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa
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I for one welcome our new katten overlords! :D
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero
"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012
Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"
Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."
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Oh, how gorgeous!
If the other 2 cats are male, she'll be ruling the household soon.
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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Oh, how gorgeous!
If the other 2 cats are male, she'll be ruling the household soon.
They are. And she will.
She's actually pretty good at standing on her rear legs, too. She'll stand up and hold the position for 20 seconds or so. Kinda freaky ------------7ppppppppppppppppppppppppp
ETA: Apparently she's learning to type, too. That was her walking on the keyboard...
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero
"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012
Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"
Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."
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You're a lucky guy, Kwicko!!
True Love Rules!
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Oh. No. A CAT.
*crinkle TAKE A PILL TAKE A PILL TAKE A PILLLLLLLL!!!!!
Sniffle. *Tingle in my throat.
Sniffle sniffle sniffle scratch SCRATCH rub-rub-rub
Achoo!
sniffle-scratch-rub-sniffle *nose feels like a caterpiller is playing hide and seek in it......
Achoo....Achoooo. AAAAAH_CHOOOOOOO
rub-blow-scratch...BLOW! *throat feels like I just had a sandpaper milkshake.
Oh, god. here it comes... full blown allergic attack....
AAAAHHHHHHHHHCHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. For an hour and a half, until medicine kicks in....... By then I'm barely moving air, my eyes look like a crack addicts, and I sound like a frog... The repetitive sneezing has damaged my lungs to the point of causing pneumonia several times...
And everyone I know has one...
"We don't care you can't breathe, you don't need to come over anyway... Besides you are probably making it up to get sympathy or to be a nusiance anyway..." And you people wonder why I hate just about everyone. I could DIE from my allergy and they would sit there petting the fluffy kitty.
For some reason some breeds of cats have less of an effect, but most will cause that^. Also, I just read that some people that have cat allergies also have pork allergies because the protiens that cause it are very similar...
Not that anyone cares.
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She sounds adorable.
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
I for one welcome our new katten overlords! :D
We're doomed, DOOOOOOMED!
Ha, one of the residents cats has absolutely perfect polydactyl "thumbs", exactly one on each front paw and they do seem to be at least semi-opposable, kinda creepy when you think about it.
Ironically he's a rescued feral, and has the bad habit of bolting out the door occasionally when the owner comes home, apparently he "doesn't like people" so they tell me...
He ADORES me, to the point where I wind up extorted into petting or even carrying him around so I can do my job without stepping on him - at least there's this much, he ain't none too bright.
His actual name is Syban, but I just call him little-orange-twerp.
Lucky little jerk he is too, K-Ghost doesn't take him seriously - she's a stray who showed up three days after Kallista passed away and is just about a dead ringer, I was starting to wonder if grief hadn't crossed some wires in my head till other people saw her... she is NOT a nice kitty, early on in her abandonment she ran afoul of the raccoons while trying to raid the dumpster and has some nasty scars and chunks of fur missing, to which she retaliated by doing in one of the baby raccoons when it stupidly went dumpster-foraging unescorted.
She outweighs Twerp by about four times over, and when he foolishly challenged her she pulled her claws in and delivered a whack upside his head which all but scrambled what brains he has before striding off with her tail in the air - good thing for him!
-F
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Ack! So cute!
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
We're thinking of calling her "Khaleesi".
Perfect.
Quote:If the 28 Weeks Later virus gets here, she may be the savior of the world.
And yes, she has two different colored eyes - one blue, one green.
The place where I get my kitty food has shelter cats, and this summer they got 3 kitten brothers, so so cute! I was sure they'd go in days. One went, the other
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