Kittens!!

Saco

Monty

After the passing of the last of our cats in October, we decided to wait a while before we got any more.

On our return to Lockeport in March, we contacted Pet Projects to get on their pre-approved list for acquiring pets and we also spread the word around town that we were looking for kittens. Well, Terry (Home Hardware) told Kevin Snow who told Scott Cotter, who called us because he had 7 kittens to give away. We went to visit them on March 29, chose our 2 and picked them up April 29.

We had a ton of excellent suggestions for names from friends - thanks for all the input. I plan to save some of them for future pets (I especially liked Oreo - first black and white cat I get will have the name). They ended up being Saco for the Saco River in Maine and New Hampshire (and the rocks Wayne would bring home as well as his famous one word Saco song - memories of many happy vacations with our kids and others) and Monty - short for Monterey, a reminder of a couple of lovely vacations which wayne and I took together in central California (our favourite state).

The kittens had their first vet visit yesterday and turn out to be only about 6 1/2 weeks, both are male (yeah! cheaper to neuter than spay) and healthy. They had a flea/worming treatment and will go back May 11th for their first shots. Their total weight is 2 lb 5 1/2 oz and the black one is heavier by 1 1/2 oz. Dr. Caulder has assigned them March 14th as their birthday - since it's also Will's that will be easy to remember.

After 3 days they can get on any furniture they want without help (those little claws make great grappling hooks) and are completely litter trained (you have to love how fastidious cats are). They eat well, purr well, play well, and are a lot of entertainment.