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Kitty Update

by John Cole|  September 10, 20228:27 pm| 57 Comments

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Gary went in for his spay/neuter, and while all his brothers and sisters were being attended to, the mother tested positive for feline leukemia. This means he has to be quarantined for three months and then be tested.

Here are some pictures to sate you:

Kitty Update

Kitty Update 1

Kitty Update 2

He is ornery as hell and purrs so loud it sounds like someone through gravel in a coffee can and is shaking it.

Oh yeah- his name is Gary.

*** Update ***

Gary is quarantining at the foster. They will not adopt him out until he has been tested in three months.

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  1. 1.

    scav

    September 10, 2022 at 8:29 pm

    That’s a proper cat that.

  2. 2.

    Spanky

    September 10, 2022 at 8:29 pm

    Oh yeah- his name is Gary.

    You’ve been watching too much Sponge Bob.

    Congratulations.

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 10, 2022 at 8:30 pm

    He’s a darling.

  4. 4.

    Spanky

    September 10, 2022 at 8:31 pm

    Where is he quarantined? Your house? Sounds unpossible.

    Steve is vaccinated against Feluke, I assume?

  5. 5.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    September 10, 2022 at 8:35 pm

    Congratulations on the new cat!

  6. 6.

    geg6

    September 10, 2022 at 8:38 pm

    I love his name is Gary. 🐾❤️

  7. 7.

    Soprano2

    September 10, 2022 at 8:38 pm

    Congrats on the new kitty. I have a cat named Gary who turned out to have feline leukemia, and he’s been just fine. I’ll cross my fingers that your Gary doesn’t have it.

  8. 8.

    CliosFanBoy

    September 10, 2022 at 8:41 pm

    Did something happen to Steve????????????????????????????

  9. 9.

    Kayla Rudbek

    September 10, 2022 at 8:44 pm

    KITTY! Thanks for feeding my cat jones, John!

  10. 10.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    September 10, 2022 at 8:45 pm

    What a cutie

  11. 11.

    Elizabelle

    September 10, 2022 at 8:46 pm

    Quarantining.  It’s what all the cool cats do.  He is a pandemic kitteh.

    Gary.  Welcome.

  12. 12.

    rikyrah

    September 10, 2022 at 8:46 pm

    Gary is a nice name👌🏽
    He should fit in at Casa Cole😊

  13. 13.

    Elizabelle

    September 10, 2022 at 8:49 pm

    Info on Feline Leukemia Virus, from Cornell.

  14. 14.

    Jackie

    September 10, 2022 at 8:50 pm

    John, I had a cat that tested positive for feline leukemia. She lived 20 1/2 yrs. She was an indoor/outdoor cat, and looked very similar to your Gary. He’s adorable, btw!

  15. 15.

    Elizabelle

    September 10, 2022 at 8:50 pm

    Is he being quarantined elsewhere?  Or already at Chez Cole?

  16. 16.

    PBK

    September 10, 2022 at 8:51 pm

    @CliosFanBoy: No, he’s just getting a buddy 😀

  17. 17.

    Joy in FL

    September 10, 2022 at 8:52 pm

    Gary is a lucky kitty, and I’m glad for his new human : )

  18. 18.

    CliosFanBoy

    September 10, 2022 at 8:53 pm

    @PBK: WHEW.

    Cute kitty!  I hope he comes out of quarantine OK.

  19. 19.

    Raven

    September 10, 2022 at 8:57 pm

    We have a huge issue in our neighborhood with missing cats. It seems that the coyotes are picking them off and, when people (on the neighborhood FB page) suggest that cats shouldn’t be allowed to roam it starts flame wars. Not much you can say if people let ‘em roam and they go missing.

  20. 20.

    Alison Rose 💙🌻💛

    September 10, 2022 at 8:59 pm

    BABY

  21. 21.

    Mai Naem mobile

    September 10, 2022 at 9:03 pm

    Gary looks adorable. Are you supposed to have 2 male cats or does it get territorial wars going or does it not matter because Gary is a kitten?

  22. 22.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    September 10, 2022 at 9:04 pm

    He’s a cute little bugger! My fingers are crossed that he’s clears the three months and tests fine!!

  23. 23.

    Trollhattan

    September 10, 2022 at 9:05 pm

    Last pic definitely a cat figuring how he’s going to take a shit in such a tight space.

  24. 24.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    September 10, 2022 at 9:07 pm

    @Mai Naem mobile:

    We have three guys and they all get along well. There are hissing warnings here and there with Chuckie, our one year old little ginger monster.

    The old guys have to warn him to cool it once in a while but other than that, they get along well. Never a fight among them.

  25. 25.

    SFAW

    September 10, 2022 at 9:08 pm

    @PBK:

    No, he’s just getting a buddy

    That should work out splendidly.

  26. 26.

    Princess Leia

    September 10, 2022 at 9:10 pm

    OMG he is adorable.

  27. 27.

    zhena gogolia

    September 10, 2022 at 9:11 pm

    Gary and Steve. Sounds good. Like a couple of guys on a football team.

    He is very cute.

  28. 28.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 10, 2022 at 9:12 pm

    @SFAW:

    No, he’s just getting a buddy

    That should work out splendidly.

    You have mastered the art of understatement.

  29. 29.

    zhena gogolia

    September 10, 2022 at 9:12 pm

    @SFAW: It will! I once had 5 cats, acquired at various times, and they got along splendidly. The one female didn’t like newcomers, but even she would deal with it fine.

  30. 30.

    CaseyL

    September 10, 2022 at 9:13 pm

    Congrats on the new family member!  Hello, Gary!

    Love to see he’s already in checking out/claiming territory mode.

    Can’t wait to see him come out of quarantine and join the rest of the menagerie.

    What’s going to happen to Mom? Does she have a home to go to?

  31. 31.

    C Stars

    September 10, 2022 at 9:15 pm

    Gary! As one of your 400 fairy godmothers I gift you the power of a very pointy tail.

  32. 32.

    sab

    September 10, 2022 at 9:16 pm

    @Mai Naem mobile: We have five cats. The three males get along fine. The two females fight with each other and with two of the males.

  33. 33.

    Albatrossity

    September 10, 2022 at 9:16 pm

    @Raven: Indeed. I always root for the coyotes in that situation. But yeah, flame wars on neighborhood lists or FB pages are the inevitable result!

  34. 34.

    PaulWartenberg

    September 10, 2022 at 9:16 pm

    Gary Seven, from Stark Trek???

  35. 35.

    Elizabelle

    September 10, 2022 at 9:18 pm

    @Albatrossity:   Yeah.  I can understand why you say that.  The toll on birds.  I am not fond of outdoor cats, for that very reason.

    And re coyotes:  yes indeed.  Was a real issue in SoCal.

  36. 36.

    Benw

    September 10, 2022 at 9:18 pm

    What a cute lil guy!

  37. 37.

    cbear

    September 10, 2022 at 9:18 pm

    Good for you, Cole! Now go back and get one of his brothes or sisters so he’ll have somebody to play with!! C’mon, dude— in for a penny, in for a pound.

  38. 38.

    Raven

    September 10, 2022 at 9:33 pm

    @Albatrossity: UGA took the cat cam down!

     

     

    Cats are spending their nights looking for animals to murder.

    That’s according to new research from the University of Georgia showing many house cats spend their nights looking for birds, chipmunks, voles, frogs and reptiles to kill. But they aren’t doing it because they’re hungry; Time Magazine notes the cats only ate what they killed 30 percent of the time. Half of the time they left their prey to rot and about 21 percent of the time they brought their kill home.

    “Kitty Cams” were put on 60 pet cats in the Athens-Clarke County area by a UGA research team, partnering with National Geographic. The cats wore “lightweight, waterproof units with LED lights to record activity at night,” which recorded a total of more than 2,000 hours of fairly high quality video on a mini SD memory cards.

  39. 39.

    Raven

    September 10, 2022 at 9:39 pm

    @Raven: 10 years ago!

  40. 40.

    SFAW

    September 10, 2022 at 9:50 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    We have four cats. Ages 18, 13, and two at five years. The 18-year-old has always considered the 13-year-old an interloper, but now that she’s ancient, she’s more tolerant. The 13-year-old is psycho, so she hates all the others. (She had a male litter-mate, he served as a buffer between the two females; he died at the start of COVID, and the dynamic has been bad since).

    The five-year-olds are litter-mates that I inherited almost a year ago. They get along fine with each other, a little less so with the 18, and not at all with the 13. [Not really their fault re: the 13.]

    So, it can work out, but I think it’s difficult with significant age differences.

    ETA: That said, I’d get another cat if I thought they could all handle it.

  41. 41.

    MazeDancer

    September 10, 2022 at 9:57 pm

    Perfect baby is perfect. What a love!

  42. 42.

    prostratedragon

    September 10, 2022 at 10:03 pm

    Gary!! He’s sure growing fast. Hope he leaves quarantine in good form.

  43. 43.

    thruppence

    September 10, 2022 at 10:07 pm

    Our best cat was named William, scary smart and incredible loudmouth. Some visitors scared him once, he got out and we never saw him again. :(

  44. 44.

    randy khan

    September 10, 2022 at 10:14 pm

    Kittens are such fun.  And I can see that he will be into everything.

    Fingers crossed on the test.

  45. 45.

    Albatrossity

    September 10, 2022 at 10:15 pm

    @Elizabelle: I have had many cats. All were indoor cats, including a couple that were rescued from the outdoors and who had lived outdoors for months before capture and domestication. I have no patience for folks who insist that their cats need/demand to be outdoors. They simply don’t. Even my most feral cat (who actually believed that he was a Doberman) decided eventually that his indoor life was better than any other life.

    People are actually in charge of their pets, and that means not taking their protestations about outdoor living seriously.

  46. 46.

    zhena gogolia

    September 10, 2022 at 10:20 pm

    @Albatrossity: We adopted three kittens from our back porch. We never let them out, and they showed no desire to go out.

  47. 47.

    eversor

    September 10, 2022 at 11:40 pm

    Gorgeous.  Penny is a tux cat we got as a feral and turned out OK, we had to do the first vet check after we took her.  We tried to get her a sister but it had FIV and it wasn’t worth the risk.

  48. 48.

    Wombat Probability Cloud

    September 10, 2022 at 11:50 pm

    @Trollhattan: He’ll have a bit more space to maneuver after he eats the entire plant.

  49. 49.

    Danielx

    September 11, 2022 at 12:01 am

    Have lost two to coyotes, now they only get to go out on screened back porch. Result: no more missing cats. Case closed.

  50. 50.

    sab

    September 11, 2022 at 1:55 am

    @Albatrossity:// You are biased as a bird guy.

    We have five cats, all indoor.Three of them were semi-ferals (ferals occassionally fed by friendly humans.) The other two came to us as tiny kittens. The only two cats we have who would even consider going outside are the ones we got as kittens. The semi-ferals are horrified by open outside doors.

  51. 51.

    FelonyGovt

    September 11, 2022 at 2:02 am

    Gary is a little sweetheart.

  52. 52.

    Joey Maloney

    September 11, 2022 at 2:53 am

    @Mai Naem mobile: Female cats are territorial, at least that’s the pattern for ferals. The females form colonies of usually 2-5 + kittens. The males roam “doing things a man will do” as the song says.

  53. 53.

    J R in WV

    September 11, 2022 at 4:05 am

    deleted.

    ETA, Gary is a darling, best wishes for his continued good health over the next months at the foster home, where it looks as if he will have the best of care while waiting for a pass to proceed with adulthood cattiness.

    We’re down to two cats right now.

  54. 54.

    sab

    September 11, 2022 at 4:59 am

    John Cole  shouldn’t have cats because he lets them roam. He loves them, but he lets them be endangered.

  55. 55.

    A Man for All Seasonings (formerly Geeno)

    September 11, 2022 at 9:34 am

    I took in a stray. He knew just how good he had it indoors. You could leave the door wide open, and he’d be like “you’re letting a draft in – did you grow up in a barn?”. Absolutely no desire to see the great outdoors again.

  56. 56.

    WaterGirl

    September 11, 2022 at 9:38 am

    @A Man for All Seasonings (formerly Geeno): Thanks for my first chuckle on this Sunday morning.

  57. 57.

    Teddi

    September 11, 2022 at 11:14 am

    @zhena gogolia:

     

    @Elizabelle: I have never believed the statistics on cats killing birds. I have had cats most of my life and never had one interested in birds. Humming birds come right in my cat’s faces and they just walk away.

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