{"id":2176,"date":"2017-08-24T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2017-08-24T04:34:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T12:34:00","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-adora-dorable-kittens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013 Adora-Dorable Kittens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Heart-melting, that\u2019s what a kitten is. They\u2019re so sweet, cute, funny. When you see one who’s lost or waiting for a home in a shelter, you just want to cuddle with it and take it home with you. How many kittens have you brought home this season? Those born in late June are ready to be adopted. There still might be some older kittens in your local shelters born in the spring and still waiting for a home. And, of course, you\u2019ll probably find older cats who have been bypassed. If you have an empty spot in your home and in your heart, this is a good time to consider adopting a cat or a kitten.<\/p>\n

Most of you reading this blog have more \"\"than one cat\u2014because they\u2019re like potato chips, right? You can\u2019t have just one. Most of us, in the past, have had as many as 8 or 10 cats at a time because it used to be less common to keep a cat inside. We weren\u2019t able to spay or neuter a kitten until they were around six months old. Put those two elements together and you end up with kittens. So the number of cats in your household naturally increased dramatically if you had a female. I\u2019ve allowed about three litters of kittens to be born in my watch–back in the sixties and seventies. And I fostered an additional three or four litters from cats I adopted who were with kittens or working friend’s cats with kittens.<\/p>\n

Truth is that most of us like to start out with a kitten when we decide to add one more furball to our home.<\/p>\n

\"\"How many of you have adopted adult cats or almost grown cats? I\u2019ve taken in half-dozen or so adult cats\u2014but I must admit\u2014I\u2019ve raised most of my cats over the years from kittens. I\u2019ve fostered cats\u2014certainly not to the extent that some of you do\u2014and found homes for them. And once I even inherited four beautiful adult cats\u2014all rescues belonging to a friend who died much too young. That story is in my book, Catscapades, True Cat Tales<\/em>. https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Heart-melting, that\u2019s what a kitten is. They\u2019re so sweet, cute, funny. When you see one who’s lost or waiting for a home in a shelter, you just want to cuddle with it and take it home with you. How many … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}