Show and Tell Kitty Cats

It's another Friday and today I want to share how the Kihn's stay warm at night. It's called take a cat to bed (or two). I'll show our cats in order of joining our family. Here is Hemi. Dana picked him up and we called him our first anniversary present.



He is generally a pain and the most expensive cat we own. Not because Dana paid a lot for him, but a blocked urinary track set us back over $400 when he was about 4 years old. We also had to pay for de-worming him and to get him fixed. Plus when we picked up cat number 2, we had to give him a flea treatment. I realize that I said nothing good about Hemi earlier. He loves helping us when typing on the computer by rubbing in our faces. Also in the summer he catches the flies that get into the house.

Boomer was the scrawniest little cat at the Humane Society. I really wanted a female, but Boomie quickly won Dana over with how lovey he was. So we paid our adoption fee, and the next day picked him up from the spay and neuter clinic. Our vet came to visit (he's a mobile vet) and gave us meds for earmites & fleas. Within 2 days we had a snotty, sneezing, disgusting kitten. So our vet dropped off some amoxicillin. Who would have guessed the tiny 6 month old adoptee would become our huge 20 + pound cat. ( I tried hard to find something to reference his size. Hopefully you can tell somewhat by the cube of diet Pepsi) Hemi was none too happy when we first brought Boomie home. A year of being the only cat had made him anti-social. It didn't take more than a few weeks though, and they are friends. Except when Boomer decides to beat Hemi up, then it's pretty funny.

Next came Cinnamon Love. She is a pure-bred Burmese. She was even papered and had 1 litter. According to the cattery she was a show winner. For me she was just another beautiful burmese to love. My former burmese Mai Tai had no fear of vehicles, and she met her end when she ran under my parents car as they were leaving one day. My parents had chosen Mai Tai after our 16 year old cat Muffy died, because they had had a burmese named Princess when they were first married.

Dana surprised me by getting Minners as my Christmas present in 2002, when I was pregnant with Kaia. She is older than both of the boys, and she introduced them to Iams food. She co-exists with the other cats, but that's all. A true burmese, she prefers people, warm beds, & sleeping on the heater vent. She has always loved the kids, I would often find her cuddled up with newborn Kaia. I never worried though as Minners was always so concerned every time she cried, and the fact that Kaia weighed more at birth than Minners did.

Last cat is Callie, who may be the oldest (we'll never know) but definitely has the most interesting story.

Callie lays on the counter each morning while Dana takes a shower. She loves Dana and follows him all over the house. At night she sleeps at our feet.


She has good reason to love Dana. He saved her life. She was injured and crawled into the shop of someone we knew. She couldn't put weight on one back leg, and limped behind some machinery. He was afraid of her and had planned to hit her with a sledge hammer, if no one could come get her. Dana picked her up and brought her home. It was summer of 2003 and Kaia was a tiny baby. I locked Callie in the laundry room until I could give her a good bath. She was absolutely coated in grease and oil from the shop and surrounding area. The bath water was black when I was finished and she looked like the most pathetic drowned rat. Callie began to quickly gain weight, and soon the leg was well without any vet attention. The best part was that while bathing her I felt a scar on her abdomen and was 99% sure it was from being spayed. She never went into heat so we knew that at some time, someone had cared for her.



Now you have seen our 4 cats. We also have Rosie the Beta (according to Kaia Rosie can be a boys name too), 2 Cory Cats, and Sampson the dog. Hey it's a zoo around here.