Alice Price-Healy: six months and still puffing.: seanan

Alice Price-Healy: six months and still puffing.

Today is Alice's six-month birthday. (She was born on December 19th, 2008.) Today is the day where she officially makes the switch from "my kitten is N weeks old" to "my kitten is N months old," which is always monumental, and a little bit sad. Her baby days are coming to an end. Bring on the slightly psychopathic teenage years!

...only probably not, because Alice remains incredibly mellow, for all that she's the feline equivalent of a college basketball player. She's long, lean, and equipped with miles and miles and miles of tail. Also, puffy. Very, very puffy. Her adult coat is coming in nicely, and while she requires a lot more brushing than she did when she was a tinycat, she's absolutely gorgeous. I'm thrilled.

Alice is my first non-Siamese since Sarah Jane died in 2002, and Sarah Jane was a primarily outside cat. Learning the body language and cues of a new breed has been interesting for the both of us. It helps that Alice and Lilly are both such sweet cats, which means they just sort of sit back and wait for the translation difficulties to be resolved whenever they arise. (They mostly have to do with Who Gets Mommy Right Now. The answer has turned out to be "both of us." It's a good thing I have a lot of lap, or I'd be in some pretty serious trouble.)

In honor of Alice's half-birthday, I'm going to be doing a fuzzy-kitty photo post this weekend, and spent about half an hour last night calmly cropping and re-sizing pictures. I feel faintly guilty; since I didn't have a digital camera when Lilly was a kitten, I already have more pictures of Alice than I have of Lil. Not that Lilly cares particularly. If I want to point the flashy thing at the kitten, she's all for it.

Also in honor of Alice's half-birthday, I did not take my plush octopus away from her when she valiantly killed it and pranced off, trilling, with one tentacle clasped proudly in her mouth. The plush octopus is still almost as big as she is. This won't last.

My cats are weird, but I love them. Happy half-birthday, puffy girl!

phillip2637

June 19 2009, 15:04:46 UTC 8 years ago

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"fuzzy-kitty photo post this weekend"

YAY!! ...and Happy (half) Birthday, Alice!
(** pauses to reload exclamation gun **)

seanan_mcguire

June 19 2009, 15:05:56 UTC 8 years ago

She possesses the fuzzy, it is true.

Hee.

kyrielle

June 19 2009, 15:23:09 UTC 8 years ago

Happy half-birthday to Alice, and YAY PHOTOS!

June 19 2009, 19:36:17 UTC 8 years ago

I know which side my bread is buttered on, it's true.

June 19 2009, 21:14:02 UTC 8 years ago

If your house is like mine, it's the side the cat's licking when you turn around from getting your water or other drink. :P

8 years ago

aryana_filker

June 19 2009, 15:50:59 UTC 8 years ago

Yay, pics!
Happy half-birthday, Alice! Tiger turns one year in July. :)

June 19 2009, 19:36:27 UTC 8 years ago

Yay, kitty!

stakebait

June 19 2009, 16:25:22 UTC 8 years ago

Awwwh!

June 19 2009, 19:36:42 UTC 8 years ago

Bit by bit, she grows longer than the house in which she is contained.

unpissenlit

June 19 2009, 16:50:43 UTC 8 years ago

"The plush octopus is still almost as big as she is. This won't last."

Now, is that because kitty is growing up or because kitty is tearing apart mr. octopus? :)

June 19 2009, 19:37:13 UTC 8 years ago

The former. Oleander (my octopus) is very sturdy, and Alice has made no headway on actually causing damage. I am thankful for this small blessing.

vixyish

June 24 2009, 13:01:22 UTC 7 years ago

Your octopus is named Oleander??

HEE.

7 years ago

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June 19 2009, 22:40:01 UTC 8 years ago

I shall pass them along.

semy_of_pearls

June 19 2009, 17:47:20 UTC 8 years ago

Fuzzy kitty happy birthday win!

I know what you mean. I started using the 'Vincent is so many months' vs. 'so many weeks' at about 6 months. I know people who would still use weeks when the kid was closer to nine months.

But kitties are much better. They purr.

June 19 2009, 22:40:33 UTC 8 years ago

I mean, I guess I could do weeks for the duration of her kittenhood, but Maine Coons are kittens for two years. It seems a bit much.

You must come meet her. She is immensely blue.

June 19 2009, 23:05:15 UTC 8 years ago

Nah. Call her a kitten for life, that way no one will ask how old she is until she's at least 3 years.

all_ephemera

June 19 2009, 18:26:20 UTC 8 years ago

Yay for kitty pictures!!

June 19 2009, 22:40:55 UTC 8 years ago

Thought you'd like that.

ladyqkat

June 19 2009, 19:49:39 UTC 8 years ago

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

June 19 2009, 22:41:04 UTC 8 years ago

*has the glee*

melissajm

June 19 2009, 22:33:17 UTC 8 years ago

Happy half-birthday, fuzzy kitty!

June 19 2009, 22:41:22 UTC 8 years ago

I'll pass it on!

janmagic

July 1 2009, 05:41:47 UTC 7 years ago

floppy ears? too much fur to hold up on their own??

did i miss the pictures or are they somewhere else??

could we use one alice pic to print on the filk fund cd/dvd? we decided to inkjet the label on the discs ( thanks to larry our sign guy) rather than use a boring white label. plus your cd/dvd font is called "grave digger"

July 1 2009, 16:26:58 UTC 7 years ago

...floppy ears? Huh?

You're totally welcome to use pictures of my kitties! I have a Flikr under the user name "Seanan," which has lots of options.

The pictures have not been posted.

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