Location: Boynton Beach, Florida, USA
Coco, three weeks old, saying “Hi World, here I come!”
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Coco-licious!
Im secont weeee
Hi everyone, I wish I had more time to read all the posts, as I really like this site. Anywho, Look at the fur ball learning how to walk.
Sad looking but oh so cute
Isn’t he? He’s so adorable! I wish I had a kitty like that!
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Now that’s cute fuzz!
LOVE those stripe-y pajamas!
I like it when they’re that tiny!
she is so cute! you just want to pick her up and never let her go. welcome, little lady!
This reminds me of when I first met my Shadow. He was small and sad looking but has grown into a beatiful and big boy. I’m sure this little lady will be just as loved.
Am I first?
Please give us an update on Bob.
I miss Bob, he’s taking a day off from work today! He did work very hard here sleeping in the drawer yesterday, so I suppose he can have a day off.
The last 3 days he’s started something new: He’ll wake me up around four in the morning, purring loud enough to wake up the whole house. He crawls under my neck and will lay there for about half an hour making sucking noices while purring. Lastnight, he found me shirt and sucked on that, sometimes he gives me hickies instead.. I’m sure he’s trying to nurse and he keeps me awake, constantly moving around searching for the “right” spot. Does anyone else have a kitty who does this? Why does he do that? Does he miss his Mommy? Does he need some nutrition in milk? Does it just make him happy? He’ll walk away all calm and purring after about half an hour
He’s nursing! You are his mommy and he’s feeling insecure. My Booger did this to me and then starting sucking on his belly hairs and then his mane hairs on his chest (he’s a Maine Coon and they have a ruff of fur around their necks like a lion’s mane). He was with his mommy cat until he was 4 months old, so it wasn’t because he was weened too soon. He outgrew it eventually. He’s probably just insecure and he is comforting himself. AND, of course, he loves you!
You have a Maine Coon? I just love their wild shaggy appearance. I hope to get 1 or 2 within a year or 2. How’s the grooming regiment?
Hi GD
I think Bob is suckling cause you are his mommy. Poor guy he is searching for the nipple. He wuvs you
Bob does it because he loves you and thinks you’re ‘Mama’. All of my cats did that to me with the exception of Maverick, who was still young when I got him, but not a baby like Huddy and Sebastian were.
My son’s college kit, Charley, does this every night. He is getting better about it and is now sleeping nose to nose with me. But he still gets fidgity and nuzzles and suckles from time to time.
It is very special when they are so trusting. I’m sure you won’t forget this sweet experience and the bonding that is happening.
I have a number of cats that still try to suckle and they aren’t babies anymore. The one’s that still have the need love to use one of my fuzzy soft sweaters, which of course is now theirs. They actually do suck while kneading and go into a deep trance. It is so cute.
Thanks Gals! I’m going home later and kissing little Bob from all of you. It IS sweet, having him laying there with me in the early mornings, purring his little heart out!
My Bosley likes to knead while sucking on the nightshirt I sometimes leave on the bed. What’s funny is that he travels in a circle while scooting closer and closer to the end of the bed. For a while, I couldn’t figure out why my n/shirt looked like it was ready to be wrung-out–it was twisted so tight! He will do this to the flat sheet if my shirt isn’t there and the sheet will be at the end of the bed twisted tightly. I had to catch him in the act to realize what was going on!
Hi Great Dane:
When my litter was tiny, one of the boys, Leopold, would try to suckle on his sister, Desdemona. He would try this anywhere, not necessarily on her nipple(s). She, of course, would just look at me as if to say “Please get him off me”. He never tried to suckle on me, but Desdemona did and still does.
I think it is the feline equivalent of thumb-sucking; some babies outgrow it, and some don’t. Desdemona still leaves hickies on me, and I revel in it. When I am traveling with my boyfriend, I often complain that I can’t get to sleep without Desdemona washing my face. He has offered to take her place and wash me, but it just isn’t the same.
I too love it when the kittens start kneading and get this really stoned look on their faces. They’ll be kneading my tummy or my leg or whatever, and when I look up, whoever is kneading has this half-lidded drooly look, and they look high. It’s great!
I must tell you once again how lucky you are that you get to take Bob to work. I would love to do that. Oh well, maybe some time–
Huddy ALWAYS looks stoned out of his head when he does that. And he really does drool all over the place. Purring, drooling, kneading, eyes crossing - lol. I’d laugh at him, but it’d probably offend him.
I know! I love it! They are just like big noodles when they are kneading. My kitties drool as well; there’s really nothing like being jolted awake by a splash of hot cat drool as it plops on your closed eye, and yet I wouldn’t trade it for anything!
give him some kmr in a bottle that you can get at the pet store with the KMR (kitten milk replacment formula) when he suckles as he needs the extra nutrition and bonding.
my lil girl (now 2yrs old) still does this, BUT she has taken a large soft fluffy teddy bear toy I had & is calling it her own & this is what she “works out” on by kneeding & suckling …her brother has never done it….They all have thier own ways as I’m sure everyone knows…This lil one is such a sweetie & I’m say HI right back at ‘em…
Sorry, you missed by 40 seconds.
I’m coo-koo for Coco-Fuzz!
Dang! I wanted to use that one! (lol). Cuckoo for Coco indeed! What a darling little face, so curious and innocent.
I had a brain fade when trying to spell cuckoo…happens to me a lot lately!
GOOD one!
What a sweet little blue-eyed face! And such tiny paws! I’m going to faint from cute overload.
She’s so small! Small enough to fit in my purse. BUT I will leave her to SHARE with everyone else.
I agree she is adorible love the color and little nose She is absoluly so cute
God bless the kittens
Oooh, how little and sweet and precious! Itty bitty kitty alert!!! Momma wants to love you and hold you and just kiss your little head!
Coco-Loco!!
Thanks Tiger. Come here you beautiful kitty.
*drops Coco in backpack and feels no need to brandish the pitchfork today*
I don’t know if I can leave her. I just want to pick her up, snuggle and kiss her all over. I can’t help myself, into my pack she goes. Sorry everyone, I will bring her back later.
You’re too late hunny-bunny. I grabbed her first. lol
HM, Could you give her a little kiss on her head from me? I wouldn’t dream of trying to reach into your bakcpack!
*kisses Coco for Mary*
What HM doesn’t know is that when she walked by, AmyLou gently reached into said backpack and grabbed said adorable fuzzy Coco and ran off with her. Shhh…. don’t tell.
BUSted, Missy! lol
Boy, HM is soooo fast. Not fair-not fair-not fair!!!!
**stomps and pouts**
Fair is a place where you ride on rides, eat cotton candy and step in animal droppings
Instinct, I just love your quick wit.
Yeah, I know. I tell my son all the time that fairs are for tourists.
I always say that God has promised us many things, but He never promised that life would be fair.
When I worked in a high school and students moaned about something being unfair, the usual response is that life’s not fair; get used to it!
My 11th grade history teacher would get this priceless sneer on his face and growl “Fair? Is ANYTHING ‘fair’ ?!?”
We lived for those moments in class!
A friend of mine would always say to her students at school that “fair” was something that happened in the fall for a couple of weeks.
Life is always unfair….it’s just that sometimes, just sometimes, the unfairness is in our favor.
You’re right about that Arcalian!
Instinct, to answer your question from yesterday, my roomie was on the Saratoga
Ah, good ol’ Sister Sarah. I was on the Nimitz and before that was on the Kitty Hawk
And the Kitty Hawk always blocked the parking space of the Chicago…or the USS Pigboat as the crew called it. But that was an older time.
We had the USS Carl Vinson out here before they decommission the Naval yards on Treasure Island. Anyone on that boat? I worked with three ladies whose husbands would go out on six month leaves. Two of those ladies ended up in divorce as they couldn’t keep their hands to themselves.
When my husband was single and stationed at Hickam AFB (next to Pearl Harbor), he went looking for an apartment off-base. One of the first high-rises he visited was rejected immediately because the place was full of Navy wives “showing their wares.” He wasn’t about to move into that episode of “Desperate Housewives”!
Yea, I did a tour as an MP (Military Police) and when a squadron would go out half the wives would be over at the enlisted club looking like they were ready for their um… shall we say “night job”.
Worst one was a young airman who was having an affair with an officers wife. The officer called use because his wife had gone to ge lunch and it was 6 hours later and she wasn’t back yet so we decided to do a basic sweep and see if we could find her car.
We found it in the enlisted parking lot and then found where she was. Turns out the enlisted guy was brand new to the Navy as was just getting ready to go to his squadron - where the officer of the wife he was sleeping with was assigned.
Well, he didn’t have to worry about that too much since he ended up doing time. In the military Adultry is a crime under the UCMJ (Uniformed Code of Military Justice)
So glad I’m out
There certainly are women like that but most Navy wives are not. I was a Navy wife for 4 years and knew so many wonderful women that formed close community with each other while the husbands were on long cruises. In that time I only met one who would “show her wares”. I really think most are to busy holding the home fort together and missing their husbands very much.
I have heard my husband talk of the WestPac widows…when their husbands were out to sea you’d see them out in the bars and then the bars would empty when they came back. Lawyers would be lined up to serve papers when the sailors came back, too. My husband said it was pretty sad…
I think that it’s like most things, the ones who are “party girls” hit the bars and the ones who aren’t don’t.
Being on the badge side of things, I always saw the ones who were at the bars so my view is, of course, biased
Elene….yup, there were plenty of the loyal and lonely, too…they just aren’t good gossip fodder.
True
I was a legal specialist in USAF. The only way adultry is punishable under the UCMJ is if it’s rape or sex with a woman not yet 16. Consentual sex with a woman over 16 is not punishable. (Article 120)
Coco looks like she’s always going to be into something you don’t really want her in! She looks so curious. “What’s that? What’s that? Can I have that? What’s that?”
It falls under Article 134, not 120
Psssh! In my experience 134 is only used as an add on to other offenses - never as a stand alone.
Hi Instinct,
I read your “Home remedies”, on yesterday’s blog. Very funny! lol
yea, I should put them up here
I think Coco looks a bit worried. Don’t worry little girl you are much loved. Kiss her for me please :))
Lots of kisses on furry little tummy! Looks like the latest pics of kitties with big heads and little bodies — WAY too cute!!
Most of my cats have had what my family likes to call ’small head syndrome’ –where their heads are really small in comparison to their bodies. Or, maybe their bodies are extremely huge in comparison to their heads. . .hmmmmmm
My youngest son (who is home on leave from the Navy!) started calling my calico “Stegosaurus” instead of “Princess” because of the small head, big body.
Where do you buy one! I’ll take a dozen, please…
In a Little Debbie Honey Bun box?
And Ginny gets an X in the corner square for the win!
Awww–I wanted Paul Lynde in the center!
What about Charlie Weaver and Wally Cox? They deserve props too! lol
Coco is saying, “Please get that camera out of my eyes. You can take plenty of pictures when I’m asleep.”
Looks like it is difficult to stand, hold all the weight of her/his head… lol What a cutie pie !!
I love it when they’re at that bobble head stage. Too cute.
yup, it’s so adorable and vulnerable when they first start exploring….looks like they are suffering from a neurological disorder….
The first night I had Huddy he went exploring behind the entertainment center. When he came out of the other side he was SHOCKED to see me still sitting there. He stood up on his hind legs and got all puffy like he was trying to scare me. What a silly baby he was.
That’s hysterical!
Dang! I miss those ferocious little kittens! Its so funny when you pick up a three-day old kitten, his or her eyes aren’t yet open and they hiss at you! yikes, don’t hurt me kitty! or when they are still all bobble-headed and play-fight with each other. I could spend hours watching!
That is so funny! My daughter (14 at the time) brought home a tiny kitten without my knowledge or consent. She ran up to her bedroom and came right back downstairs and left. I was upstairs folding laundry and with a sigh reached into her room to turn off the light and saw a tiny grey kitten staring at me. Of course I melted and began petting her, but she hissed at me! How cute! My kids know I’m the biggest softie in the world and my daughter still has her grey cat, now 13 years old!
At three weeks, her tummy is so full after a lunch that it drags on the floor and her legs can hardly hold her up. They grow out of this problem in a couple of weeks.
BIG HEAD fuzz
Coco, you are so cute everyone will be smiling today. Would love to nuzzle this little baby.
Oh, what a cutie!!
Hey everyone I am back. I haven’t caught up on the posts from last several days of TDK. I hope everyone is doing ok and everyone kits are well. The story about the tainted catfood broke while I was away, but my alert cat sitter checked to make sure that nothing in my pantry was on the list!
The very day the story broke was the day my husband wanted to go to Wally World to get some canned dog food for Destructo Dog, who was very “out of it” following her spay that day. Good thing we never made it to the store!
My friend’s kitten died of kidney failure a few weeks ago because of the tainted food. She got another kitten the same day I got Bob, and the new one kept throwing up, so she took it to the vet, who gave her different food for sensitive stomachs. My friend was feeding her new kitten the same food as the one that died, but because she threw it up, she was lucky and and lived!
Has anyone else lost faith in these pet food producers? I’m almost afraid to serve any canned food until they discover the reason and suppliers of tainted product. I think I will use the recipe Rosie posted today. Cooked chicken and a few veggie’s will be safe and is good healthy food. Probably less expensive too.
I already had been reading the ingredient labels looking for foods that don’t have grains as an ingredient so I really dodged a bullet. My kits love the Meow Mix fish flavors in the pouches and tubs. I like them because they don’t contain the grains and they are actually fish and shrimp and not mystery tofu-looking chunks. It is getting scary our there. First the Spinach, then the peanut butter and now cat-food. Sheeesh!
I have always fed my babies Purina and have never had a problem. They are all on Purina One now. I’m sorry for everybody who’s animals have been sickened. That’s so sad. They had different people they were talking to this morning - they were all cat owners, which I thought was odd - and the things they were saying just about broke my heart.
I seldom give them canned food because they wolf it down and then get the *ick* projectile yakk that mama gets to clean off the carpet.
Oh so true about the yakk, I think that’s why I hopefully dodged a bullet about this pet food. I’m not giving my cats any more wet food until they figure this out. Maybe some chicken tho.
I too only give Sylvester Purina Pro Plan cat food. He also gets Science Diet dry food for indoor cats. I am watching him as he threw up his dry food twice today. Hopefully he is okay. I told my husband if Sylvester throws again, I am taking him to the vet.
I think Coco is saying “What the HECK is that thing you are pointing at me??!?!?”
So cute!
Coco IS the world!
goodness what tiny, tiny little toes!
Good-morning all. This evening will be the start of Spring. I hope this new season will help cheer all those from yesterday who are dealing with some difficult issues. Hopefully it can be a new beginning for all, and remember one of my favorite stress reducing mantras, “NOW IS NOT FOREVER”.
I need to borrow that-how wonderful! Thanks Elene.
How’s the “community” doing?
Wild thing!
You make my heart sing!
You make EVERYTHING
Groovy…
Wild thing, I think I love you!
—I wanna know for sure….
Come on and….hold me tight…
oh my goodness… how big is that head?
but what a darling!
Hey that there is a baby Bengal
spot em miles away I do…….I was at petco today t oget Elija Blue a harness and leash, cause he is taking a trip to Georgia……My son is in basic and had 2 request Please come mom and bring a fuzzbutt………..(evil laugh as I have now infiltrated the army with my fuzz) Yes its true people a Big 101st Airborn has a Gimungus cat lover………..so Im in petco and there in the adopt a kitty windows is this Big Fluffy Orange boy, he was rolling around, pawing at the window………..Life is so tough when I have to walk away………….but just one more could not hurt right……..discuss…….:)
One more? Elija Blue will be sooo jealous!
The BFO sounds like the cat my aunt had when I was a child. His name was Sassafras (”Sassy” for short). Or, if he’s really that big, you could name him Sumo (or Konishiki or Akebono). Maybe even “Fridge” for William “The Refrigerator” Perry.
I vote for the “new kitty road trip”! He clearly wants you!
I second that vote.
I think it was harder to incorporate my 2nd after having had one for 14 years. With Zasha & Munchie I then thought that was all I could handle. After I began feral kitten rescues, I was told after five I would be considered the “crazy cat lady”. Each time I’ve added it has been easier and easier. With 16 now, my therapist asked me if I had a number which I won’t exceed. I said 20.
Brandi Lee, I think the only one that would notice a difference would be the Big Fluffy Orange boy. He would notice that life just got so much better.
I second that. Cats are not onlies…They are pride critters.