Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Music: Taylor Swift, "Better Than Revenge."

Life in the sea of blue cats.

So, as many of you have ascertained from this month's welcome post, I have a new member of my feline family: Thomas, a blue classic tabby and white Maine Coon. Like Alice, he hails from Seattle's fantastic Pinecoon Cattery, courtesy of Betsy Tinney. He and Alice actually share a mother, the sweet-natured and endlessly tolerant Arial (yes, like the font), although they have different fathers. Thomas joined the family on Sunday afternoon, heralded by a rather epic amount of hissing from my pre-existing cats, Lilly and Alice.

Thomas, it should be noted, has really not participated in the hissing. He's a goofy, sweet little blue boy, and he starts purring when I get within three feet of him. That is, when he's not racing through the house like a kitten possessed, sinuous blue tail flying out behind him like a flag, losing traction on the hardwood floor, and slamming into the nearest available wall. Yes. He does this a lot.

Lilly and Alice remain dubious of our new family member, but they're starting to warm to him. Lilly was grooming him yesterday (she is the lickingest cat alive), and he and Alice slept on my chest last night, together. Given that he's likely to weigh more than she does when he grows up, this may become a lot less endearing really, really soon. Then again, they eliminate the need for a space heater, so hey. All three of them spent last night's episode of Glee hanging out, purring loudly, and being cute. I have the cutest cats in the entire world. And all my cats are blue.

This brings me to two Maine Coons and one classic Siamese, which strikes me as a good place to stop, since going any further takes me into crazy cat lady territory. Besides, I'm already pretty sure that, if they wanted to, they could take me.

Kitten!

(No, there are not yet kitten pictures available. Yes, there will be kitten pictures...eventually. Making pictures uploadable is a long, manual process, and I'm getting ready for this weekend's Orycon Guest of Honor slot, integrating a new cat into my household, and trying to finish a book. Asking me for kitten pictures only reduces my desire to deal with formatting them. So please show mercy, and don't ask?)
Tags: alice, betsy, cats, good things, lilly, thomas
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slothman

November 10 2010, 21:58:20 UTC 6 years ago

We brought Yeti home (as a 3-month-old) when Cleo was 9 months old; he was about the right age to have been from her first litter, if we hadn’t gotten her spayed. She displayed excellent maternal instincts, and it was a couple of years before we could get her to play with cat toys while Yeti was in the room, as she was determined that he would learn to hunt them properly. Goofy and sweet sounds very much like the typical Maine Coon boy— if he’s anything like Yeti, he’ll still be goofy and sweet (but much larger!) ten years from now. Congratulations!

seanan_mcguire

November 10 2010, 21:58:48 UTC 6 years ago

Okay, that's brilliant.

Thomas is wonderful. I am besotted beyond words.