Inky, Jet, Baby and Ringo
This is what most of my pics looked like. For each of the good photos you see, I must have taken 20 pictures that I threw out.
Inky, Lion, Jet, Baby, Ringo
Amber, Baby, Ringo and Lion
Amber once had a sister marked much the same as her, only lighter, named
Opal because she had a round mark on her forehead that reminded me of an
opal. Amber was named as a bad joke (from a detective
novel 'Darker Than Amber')
Amber's coloring is quite striking-including a black 'strap' around one leg.
Baby was named by mom.
Maybe because she's such a 'pretty baby'?
Ken named this cat 'Bernie' because the poor thing had been dreadfully scalded. He was very patient about me putting antibiotic and A&D ointment with lanolin on his wounds, and eventually regrew most of his fur.
Bernie is a sweetheart, although he looks grumpy. It's just the way his face is.
Bertie was born at Easter. His real name is Eggbert the kitchen countertop spy, but that's too long to yell when he's stealing the butter dish. He once had a sister named Bunny.
He's dressed like James Bond in Casino Royale. And he ate the answers to my puzzle book. So I was pretty sure he was a secret agent, although I wonder why he likes to fetch a feather ball for Ken-- maybe he's playing courier and thinks there are secret documents inside?
Bertie listening to 'M'.
I proved he was a crook when I looked at the bottom of his left hind paw.
It has the mark of the 'Mad Cat' criminal organization from the cartoon/movie Inspector Gadget.
Billy the kid showed up one day, as a starving kitten.He could barely stand, but we still couldn't catch him. Cats are like that.
He was too weak to stand up to the other cats, so he'd wait until they finished eating before he'd come. There would be nothing left. Once I put out 17 cans of food trying to fill up the others so he could eat.
My brother took Bert to the vet one day, and the vet said if he didn't take this other kitten they'd kill her. Bonnie was the ugliest kitten I've ever seen, so I gave her a pretty name to encourage her.
We considered naming Bonnie 'Yoda' because her ears stuck straight out, her eyes were bulging yellow balls, and her fur was a dingy grayish spiky mess.
But Bonnie certainly turned out nice, didn't she? She was supposed to be an outside cat, but went on a hunger strike until I took her in.
Bootless's mother, Missus Hisses, was the ancestor of most of our cats. I think his was her last litter, and the other five in his litter were all brown tabbies with white feet. He was the only 'unbooted' one.
This is a strange pose, I know. Bootless was getting ready to wash his chest fur.
Bootless thinks it's always nice to follow up a wash with a good scratch.
Eric the Red is the second of that name. Names are very important. Eric the Red was a viking explorer and this Eric constantly gets out of the house to explore.
Once when he got out he was bitten by a dog and got a punctured lung.
Which meant the vet had to wrap Eric up like a cat-mummy until he healed. Here he's snoozing in a window, so he can see when Ken comes home.
Eric likes squeezing into boxes too small for him.
Eric and Bert begging to go into Ken's room.
Eric in the front, and Roy behind him. Roy has a tiny nick out of one ear. I think he said something rude to Bonnie and she smacked him.
Eric and Roy. I think this photo is funny.
Foxy was another of Missus Hisses kits, and was too shy to let us catch her as a kitten.
Foxy was sick as a kitten, and her right eye's been clouded ever since.
It doesn't seem to bother Foxy, though. She's sweet, loving, has been known to catch lizards, birds and mice (not that I asked her to) and is the only cat I know who can not only climb a ladder to get on the roof, but can descend the ladder to get down.
She's named Foxy because I thought her face-mark reminded me of a fox's mask.
Inky is a sweetheart. She loves to be petted, and goes crazy meowing when you do. She's probably a full sister to Bert, but not lucky enough to become a house cat.
Inky is probably the best mouser of all of the cats, and the smallest cat. She's a tiny thing.