Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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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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ladyphoenixia

November 10 2010, 22:30:46 UTC 6 years ago

No such thing as too many cats - I am looking forward to being a crazy cat lady as I get older, when I have my own house - good thing my boyfriend is also a big cat fan, although he's so attached to siamese he doesn't like considering other options.

Personally, I have three moggies -
Cassie (black) is about six and a bit of a grump sometimes, but lovely. Loves to hide in boxes, but getting a bit heavy to be able to climb around like she used to.
Tiger (grey tabby, ~3) my brother adopted against my parents wishes from the markets about two years ago, as she had five newborn kittens and they would all have been putdown as their owner was a bastard. She's a little bipolar sometimes, so you never know when she'll be a sweetheart or randomly attack, but she's become much friendlier over the years.
Hardy (ginger tabby) is her son from a second litter (we didn't get her spayed in time), about one and a half. He's a big boy, and a massive softy, tolerates everything. His mum hates him though, is always attacking him without provocation.

...I want more cats, though!

mythusmage

November 11 2010, 00:07:55 UTC 6 years ago

Let me guess, Tiger doesn't seem to be all that serious when she attacks, it's more like she's playing at being all fierce and fiendish.

I'll bet it's more play fighting than anything else, and that over the years she's learned that you don't like to play fight.

ladyphoenixia

November 11 2010, 00:21:03 UTC 6 years ago

Sometimes it's a play, but she can be downright vicious when inclined, claws and everything (we don't mind playfights, and can usually tell the difference between a playing cat and an angry one). She's very easily startled or annoyed, friendly only on her terms.

When we got her she was emaciated and had a bad leg (a break that was clearly not looked after and never truly healed) and had just been abandoned by her owner, so I think she's overcoming a natural tendency not to trust humans.