The Kittens' Christmas Sweater Party - part four

Next up, Kreb

Kreb took to the sweater okay at first.. see he just sat there with a "whatever" face on..

But he didn't quite understand that he could move his arms forward once he was on his own. See the sweater is made for a wine bottle so the sleeves are on the side of the sweater, not under it like it would be if it were made for a kitten..

If one foot was done, the other was up in the air like there was a chopstick in there.. Once again, I quite rudely laughed at his situation, but he took it in stride..

Since we had another case of clothing paralysis going on I let him off the hook pretty quickly as well. I so wanted to do a photoshoot with all of them in their different outfits, but that has never gone well for me, and with so many kittens I would run the risk of losing track of what was one was doing and have there be an issue, so, we did it pretty much as you are seeing this, one (or two) at a time and keeping the kitten's best interest in mind.. Fortunately, this time around no one objected (one year I sent out a Christmas Card with three dressed kitties and one nekkid kitty because he did NOT want to wear anything)

Tomorrow, we meet Santa Kitten

The Kittens' Christmas Sweater Party - part three

I put Milo's sweater on and he sat there and waited for me to take photos. I did, he didn't move, so all the photos look exactly like this one.. so.. we have a one photo part three.

I'm going to take this opportunity to remind you of the Michaela and her Minions Calendar and of the Tails from the Foster Kitten's Christmas card

The kittens are all over two pounds, so we are just waiting for a time for them to be able to get into the clinic to be neutered. Most of the kittens have a home already lined up and the rest have serious inquires on them - so I imagine they will all be home for Christmas.

The Kittens' Christmas Sweater Party - part two

Several of you commented that Onyx didn't look too thrilled with her outfit.. She was a bit annoyed with me because I had to discourage her from playing with the pompoms to get her photo. As soon as I stopped distracting her she grabbed the strap in her mouth, jumped down and ran off with it.. it was adorable.

Zephy didn't mind the outfit so much, but it was simply much too big for her.

Unlike someone else (cough, Romy, cough) who developed an immediate case of acute clothing paralysis.. I mean an acute case of it.  She seemed fine when I got her into it, not reacting at all..

But when I put her down to get a photo...

She sunk like a stone and did not move so much as a whisker. The irony that she wore the "Joy" sweater was not lost on me and, despite my nearly uncontrollable laughter, I quickly picked her up and cuddled her. She wasn't upset in the least, simply frozen by the fact that she was 'surrounded'. Once I took the sweater off she was mobile again and we spent some time cuddling and playing. I really wanted to try again but I simply couldn't do it to her.

The Kittens' Christmas Sweater Party - part one

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I was out shopping the other day and found a couple of festive wine bottle covers that looked like holiday sweaters. If you have been a fan of this blog for any amount of time you know I'm pretty partial to them (if the arms aren't sewn shut) to dress up kittens.

I ended up taking so many photos, that I think this is going to be a multipart post..

I thought I would start with Zephy and Wyatt.  I wanted to recreate a card I had of Skippy and Kit from a few years ago..

But it didn't go nearly as well.

As you can tell Zephy's dress was quite large on her. It is an x-small dog outfit and not really designed for two-pound cats. Wyatt's sweater stayed on a little better but not by much.

I originally tried to get the sweater on Zeph but that did not go well at all..

but it was freakin cute.. as kittens in clothes often are.

let us never speak of this again.. 

**for those of you wondering why I do this, I believe it helps socialize them. It gives them something weird to endure and then come out the other side with nothing bad having happened to them. I coo over them the entire time, give them lots of love and kisses and do not leave them unattended for any length of time. The CatMan and I were watching them very carefully and any kitten that told us this was absolutely not their thing has the experience end faster.

Our Christmas Tree 2018

Guess what time it is..

Yup, it is that time of year that I raid Muffin's stash of toys and stick them on the tree we erect in our living area.. This confuses Muffin to no end, but everyone else seems to like it.

Guess who was the first one to take a toy off the tree.

That toy was NOT allowed on the tree, according to Fleurp it must be on the floor. Once she put it on the floor she immediately lost interest in it and started to walk away so I picked it up and put it back on the tree so Fleurp turned around and batted it off again. When the Catman showed up I shared this trick with him and she told us both that this toy belongs on the ground.. so on the ground, it stays.

Unfortunately, we lost a number of toys this year as something got in the basket and started consuming them. The feathers were stripped down to the spines and other natural fiber toys had holes in them. Whatever it was set off my allergies something fierce so I had to stop going through the basket halfway through and stuck it in the garage I fear we are going to lose a great number of toys once we go through it. Ah well, a good excuse to buy more.

If you would like a Christmas card from us you can send me your address, fill out the postable form Previous trees:

• 2008
• 2011
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• 2015
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• 2017