Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Six years of Alice: happy birthday, baby girl.

Today is Alice Price-Healy Little Liddel Abernathy McGuire's sixth birthday.

Alice is a blue classic tabby and white Maine Coon, bred by Betsy Tinney of Pinecoon Maine Coons in Seattle. She was my first Maine Coon (although not my only for very long), and I'm not kidding when I say that it was love at first sight. It still is.

Alice is stubborn, sweet, intractable, opinionated, devoted, loving, my little angel, my little devil, and often threatened with becoming mittens. Like a toddler, she never wants love more than when I get on the phone. She's sassy and awful and sometimes takes showers with me, and she's probably the best cat I've ever had. A year with Alice is worth five with any other cat, and I've had six of them.

Happy birthday, my terrible girl. Let's have at least ten more.
Tags: alice, cats, good things
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mysterysquid

December 20 2014, 08:30:01 UTC 2 years ago

Happy birthday, Alice!

seanan_mcguire

December 21 2014, 17:16:06 UTC 2 years ago

It was a good one. :)

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seanan_mcguire

December 21 2014, 17:16:17 UTC 2 years ago

Thank you.

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December 20 2014, 22:07:40 UTC 2 years ago

I look forward to the day I can have a cat again! I have Siberians so it is a no go. Maine Coon is high on the list. VERY high. :) Happy Birthday!

seanan_mcguire

December 21 2014, 17:16:34 UTC 2 years ago

Siberian Huskies, you mean?

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December 21 2014, 17:22:46 UTC 2 years ago Edited:  December 21 2014, 17:23:26 UTC

Yup, my brain wrote "Huskies" but my fingers didn't. :) They both have high prey drives, especially my girl who was a street dog for some time, we think. My boy is from a breeder, and I swear she taught him to chase little things as he didn't at first. Someday... Someday a cat will be mine (and no more huskies - they are a LOT of dog for a single, working full time person!)

imogen_blue

December 21 2014, 05:41:35 UTC 2 years ago

Happy Birthday Alice!

(I often threaten to turn my cat into a hat. )

seanan_mcguire

December 21 2014, 17:16:52 UTC 2 years ago

They'd make such good hats.

notalwaysweak

December 21 2014, 08:53:15 UTC 2 years ago

Happy floofday, Alice!

Also, a podcast episode rec for you, o Lady of Horror - 'No, The Other Slash'

seanan_mcguire

December 21 2014, 17:17:06 UTC 2 years ago

Excellent, thank you.

alicetheowl

December 22 2014, 05:57:48 UTC 2 years ago

What a lovely tribute. I hope my same-named feline counterpart had a wonderful birthday.

seanan_mcguire

December 22 2014, 17:52:20 UTC 2 years ago

Alice always has a good birthday, because she gets my full attention.

kat_merle

December 22 2014, 20:46:24 UTC 2 years ago

Happy belated birthday Alice!

seanan_mcguire

November 10 2015, 19:27:16 UTC 1 year ago

Thank you!

auroradawnstar

December 23 2014, 05:27:20 UTC 2 years ago

Happy belated birthday to Alice from Robin Augustus, who will be 21 in August. (That's him in the picture.)

seanan_mcguire

November 10 2015, 19:27:27 UTC 1 year ago

He's beautiful.

vettecat

December 23 2014, 15:31:43 UTC 2 years ago

Happy fluffy birthday!

seanan_mcguire

November 10 2015, 19:27:36 UTC 1 year ago

<3
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