The kitten who came in from minigolf

So what’s the last thing a Sarah needs on a month with two cons?  You guessed it.  Another Kitten to train, right?  And integrate into the house?

Just before RWA and World Con we went minigolfing.  On the course was a little cat — starved, FILTHY (I’ve never seen a cat that filthy.  The "then" picture was after baths with normal kitten shampoo, Gojo AND Dawn dish soap (All recommended by our vet.)  Before that he looked yellow.  Take kitten, dip him in vat of corn oil.  Let him dry.  Rub some crisco on him.  When we got him, he looked about like that.  It further took three rubbings with corn startch and brushing out to make his fur stop clumping.  He was, our vet said, seven to eight months.  He’s been with us… three?  And he is a total brat.  He lives, as my older son says, in a permanent state of hunger, but then he’s grown a lot (both directions.)  He has a permanent purr and thinks EVERYTHING and everyone is a toy.  He has some sort of fight going on with D’Artagnan over Euclid’s affections.  (I’m SO not going there.  There are TWO girl cats in this house.   Well, they’re all NOMINAL girl and boys, but still…)  I think I’m breaking them of NOISY fighting.  A clap of hands usually does it.  NOT ON the cats, you sillies.  Just mid-air. Though I’ll admit particularly when they’re doing their fighting while I write "I have HAD enough of this," also brings instant, wide-eyed silence.

Anyway, attached are pictures of Havelock, aka Mr. Ridiculous Plume (his tail has a kink in the midle, so when he walks, it rotates.)  It’s really hard to get him with his eyes open these days, unless he’s begging for food.
Then, little waif disturbingly sure he’d found a home — can you tell he’s thinking "Suckers!"

Now — he KNOWS he rules us.  He just can’t understand why we haven’t — YET — got rid of the other mugs!

Is that elegant or what?

The Seamy Underbelly:

The rival and the disputed one (I don’t want to hear it.  NO, truly, I DON’T.  Poor Euclid is neurotic enough he suffers from Alien Tail syndrome.  Don’t wound his self esteem.)  Dan, btw, calls that pose with Euclid and D’Artagnan yin-yang. :D  Someday I must do a drawing of the symbol, with two cats entwined.