43 Comments on “Kitten Update, 11/6/15”

1. I see through your little ploy John. First you hook us on cute kitten photos and updates. Then you cut us off cold turkey. Until we are willing to pay for cute kitten photos and updates. and thus Athena’s college tuition is funded.

   well played sir.

2. Was someone pretending they didn’t want the cute kitten pictures? Because they were obviously lying…

3. How goes the quest to banish the dreaded fleas from the Things?

4. Awwwwww! Awwwwwww! Made Friday even better!

5. I love how utterly fearless kittens are. “Oh, you are roughly 100 times my size and could mangle me with one snap (not that Daisy would). Meh.”

6. Thing One and Daisy look like the best crime-fighting duo EVER.

7. I am now completely zonked out on kitteh cuteness. I suspect that kittens are the new opiate of the masses.

8. Thing One, so tiny and yet so intrepid. LOL

9. Has Athena chosen names yet?

10. I presume the gate is meant to be a dog gate? Because having owned cats, you’d know that would barely slow one down.

    Though looking at it, I suspect Daisy could get over it. Or knock it down. Big dog!

    Thanks for the pictures.

11. Daisy is a lover, obviously

12. i love tiny kitten voices

13. You’ve nearly convinced me to go out and adopt a kitten myself.

14. So I was watching the video of Daisy and Thing One (awwwwww!) when my own cat came over to me and started demanding attention. My initial instinct was to ignore her, until I was struck by the irony of the fact that I was ignoring my own (much loved) cat in favor of kitten videos on the internet. Cat videos: warping priorities since…well, probably since the invention of the internet, actually. I mean, who can resist??

15. These help while I am at work, away from my own kittens.

16. My goodness, but Thing Two’s eyes look bright blue there! Are they? How about Thing One’s? (They are slightly shadowed in the picture and I can’t tell.) Anyway–adorable, as usual. I particularly enjoyed the way Daisy followed Thing One out of the room . . .

17. If a contracting company associated in anyway with John Scalzi makes a bid to build the border wall with mexico, it would be a theft of the tax payers money to let him build it. He can’t even put up a wall to contain an 8 week old kitten.

18. Awwww! And great taste in books. Sixty-one Nails ROCKS!

19. I like Daisy’s tentative tail-wag on meeting Thing1.

20. ….If we purify this cuteness, it will become a new wonder drug.

    We need more of these pictures.

21. And will you be requesting a refund on the cat-barrier?

22. Awww, Daisy! Good girl!

23. I love Daisy’s expressions throughout: “What is it? Is it lunch? Where is it going — oh, crap, better follow it and see what it gets into”, and then the tail wag at the end!

24. I’m sure Athena’s doing fine for names, but I always name my female cats after notorious women. Hence Rosalie (after the folksinger Rosalie Sorells), Emma (after Emma Goldman), Murasaki (after Murasaki Shikibu (when I went to visit the temple where she wrote the Tale of Genji, they were still saying prayers for her soul for the bad things she said about the Japanese Emperor 1000 years ago!) and currently Frida, named after Frida Kahlo, one of the art world’s great troublemakers.

25. According to my daughter: “The kitten is giving the doggie a treat!”

26. I’m not a dog person but Daisy is an absolute sweetheart; she definitely deserves her starring role in the video. And, of course, the Things continue to be utterly delightful…

27. Are Gilgamesh and Enkidu sufficiently literary enough to be the names of Scalzi cats?

28. Ooh, love Sixty-One Nails!

29. You are shameless!

30. Awww, Daisy is such a gentle giant. She reminds me of a wonderful dog I had for many years. Very cute.

31. At this point, I am primarily reading for the kitten pictures and videos. I love how at the end they walk off into the sunset.

32. When are they going to get christened with their bacon strips?

33. Daisy looks smitten with her itty kitty pal.

34. My kitten did the same thing when I brought her home – right up and over the baby gate.

35. You have the sweetest dog EVER.

36. Lord, what a gentle and good-hearted dog Daisy is. (“Hello weird but interesting tiny furry thing. I will watch and follow you with interest.”) Give her many hugs, pets and scritches, please.

37. I am having flashbacks on our pets with the baby gate and the dog introductions.

    The entire Internet is now waiting for Athena to name the kittens. Daisy’s Lunch One and Daisy’s Lunch Two?

38. Yes, Jimmy, adopt a kitten! There are so many lovable cats waiting for homes and they’re fairly low maintenance. I got mine four years ago (a one-year-old) and it’s been one of the best decisions I’ve made. She’s sitting in my lap now, purring, not at all jealous as I coo over baby kitteh mews.

39. Daisy and Thing have a Merry/Pippin and Treebeard thing going…

40. Awwwwww… The cute is strong.
    On the sunject of notorious women for naming inspirations, why not Julie- Émilie D’Aubigny?
    “Beautiful, valiant, generous and supremely unchaste.”

41. Careful, Our Host: your dog may have a new boss.

42. Oh, god. That vid is intolerably cute.

43. My not-quite-two year-old daughter just saw that video, and might be in love. :-)