Five years of Alice.: seanan

Five years of Alice.

Today is Alice Price-Healy Little Liddel Abernathy McGuire's fifth birthday. We did not meet until she was ten days old, but this is the day when she began. I am still so very grateful to her for deciding to do that.

As a kitten, Alice's name was "Ado Annie," and she was a prissy, prissy princess who didn't really care for any of the human suitors who came to visit her litter. Until she met me, and went to sleep on my arm, and I asked in a strangled voice if her breeder (my friend Betsy Tinney) took checks.

It took a good deal more time and conversation before Alice was ready to come home with me, as a sixteen week old fuzzball with firm ideas about the world, her place in it, and my place under her. She was my first Maine Coon, and after the learning curve was behind us, she quickly became one of my best friends.

She is pushy; loud; arrogant; prissy; very stinting with her love, and very particular about who deserves it. She gives affection when she wants to, not when people demand it. She won't eat human food, but she begs for it all the same, only to disdain it with a sniff if allowed to get a closer look. She sits like a human, and likes to hug the remote. She is, as I often tell her, my favorite thing.

Happy birthday, Alice. Let's celebrate a dozen more.

slothman

December 20 2013, 01:47:06 UTC 3 years ago

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Happy birthday, Alice!

She picked you the way Cleo picked us! (Cleo fell asleep in the palm of Mara’s hand at the age of four weeks.)

seanan_mcguire

January 20 2014, 18:45:46 UTC 3 years ago

Awwwwwwwwwwww.

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January 20 2014, 18:45:57 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you!

offcntr

December 20 2013, 02:01:38 UTC 3 years ago

Quoted from Kitty Games by Flynn + Tiki (as told to us):

follow papa into the kitchen and beg for treats. sniff treats. beg for different treats.

Happy Birthday Alice!

January 20 2014, 18:46:08 UTC 3 years ago

ladymondegreen

December 20 2013, 02:41:27 UTC 3 years ago

I am so glad. Happy birthday kitten niece!

January 20 2014, 18:46:18 UTC 3 years ago

She is best.

dharawal

December 20 2013, 03:41:30 UTC 3 years ago

Happy Birthday Alice!!

I also have a Maine Coon who owns me, Bucky says happy birthday.

January 20 2014, 18:46:28 UTC 3 years ago

Maine Coons are best.

3 years ago

notalwaysweak

December 20 2013, 04:18:05 UTC 3 years ago

Happy birthday, Princess Bluefluff!

Seanan, do the three of them ever get approximately in the same location enough to be in one photo? I do know why you don't post photos; I'm more curious about whether they ever hang out close enough for you to have a group photo for yourself.

January 20 2014, 18:46:43 UTC 3 years ago

They do! It's rare, but it happens.

acelightning

December 20 2013, 07:18:33 UTC 3 years ago

Happy Birthday, Alice, and may Bast grant you many, many more! And may your days be filled with catnip-stuffed toys, things that make interesting crinkly noises, warm sunbeams and cool shadows to nap in as you choose, small moving objects to chase, and human servants to provide for your every whim!

January 20 2014, 18:46:54 UTC 3 years ago

Good birthday wish.

joecoustic

December 20 2013, 11:15:03 UTC 3 years ago

Happy Birthday Alice!! :)

January 20 2014, 18:47:03 UTC 3 years ago

hamletkitty

December 20 2013, 14:25:42 UTC 3 years ago

Happy Birthday Alice!

January 20 2014, 18:47:14 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you.

January 20 2014, 20:43:33 UTC 3 years ago

mariadkins

December 20 2013, 19:14:42 UTC 3 years ago

wow happy birthday!

i can't believe it's been that long already!

January 20 2014, 20:43:41 UTC 3 years ago

I know, right?

evieeros

December 20 2013, 20:04:08 UTC 3 years ago Edited: December 20 2013, 20:05:30 UTC

Yay Pretty Kitty!! Happy Birthday from my house which includes one large, fluffy, part Maine Coon, purr-bear! Reading about Alice and Thomas and a few other friends MCs has made me determined that my next kitty addition will be a purebred MC from a good breeder. Luckily we have several nice breeders here in Florida for when the time comes! If you don't mind answering, how large are Alice and her brother again? People are always commenting on how "huge!" my partbred boy is (12 pounds) and I laugh because I know how big the purebreds can be!

[Pics of my boy!]
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