{"id":3708,"date":"2019-09-19T03:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T11:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2019-09-19T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T11:43:08","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-kittens-becoming-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3708","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013 Kittens Becoming Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everyone loves a baby anything\u2014horned toad, bird, rabbit, lion, buffalo, crocodile\u2014it doesn\u2019t matter. Babies are adorable. But kittens are the cutest thing going. I think it\u2019s kind of fun to see how a kitten matures. Sometimes it\u2019s hard to tell what a kitten will become\u2014whether she will grow into a lanky adult, have luxurious fur and a cobby body, grow into her feet, develop a fluffy tail, have a pretty face, be fat\u2026 While some kittens grow up to look exactly the same as their mini-me self, others change a little or a lot over the first year.<\/p>\n

Winfield started out white with blue eyes and a black \"\"smudge on his head. He grew into a beautiful pure white cat with one bright green and one sparkling blue eye. Lily never lost her cute kitten face as she aged, but her little pointy tail grew to be long and rather luxurious. A calico I had once\u2014Mandy\u2014<\/p>\n

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Lily<\/p><\/div>\n

didn\u2019t change her spots as she matured, but her fur grew longer than I expected. And another kitten I knew years ago appeared as if she\u2019d have nice fur, but grew up to have kind of coarse and short fur.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you can predict the outcome for a kitten and other times you might be surprised. And this can go for the cat\u2019s disposition and demeanor as well.\"\"<\/p>\n

I chose Katy, a gorgeous Himalayan, for her relaxed manner. She was four months old when I found her at a pet store and what a friendly little girl she was. However, Katy grew up to be shy. She hid from visitors and was terrified of loud noises. I\u2019ve also had cats who started out to be scaredy cat kittens, but who grew into confident, friendly cats.<\/p>\n

I guess it\u2019s a good thing that kittens are so endearing. They worm their way into your heart pretty quickly and when you find out an ugly truth about them, it\u2019s too late. Has that happened to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Everyone loves a baby anything\u2014horned toad, bird, rabbit, lion, buffalo, crocodile\u2014it doesn\u2019t matter. Babies are adorable. But kittens are the cutest thing going. I think it\u2019s kind of fun to see how a kitten matures. Sometimes it\u2019s hard to … 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\/3708"}],"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=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}