Took these with my Canon 10D with a Tamron 28-200mm lens. Obviously I need some practice, but they are cute anyway.

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Anyone else care to share?

They are cute! Good for you for getting a pair. People don't realize it's much easier to raise 2 kittens rather than one.
Nice action shot in the litter box.

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Yes, I definitly wanted to have a pair. I adopted them from the local animal shelter. They are brothers. They have a "better with a buddy program". You pay one kitten and they give you the second for free. I think it is a great program and I was glad to adopt from them as opposed to looking in the paper.

FYI: You should give them separate dishes for food and water. It's much easier to keep their water clean that way.

Cute little red menaces. Males?

I adopted two kittens 11 years ago. They are sisters and they were all lovey-dovey for the first couple years. Now they fight if they get near each other.

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Old page. I haven't updated it in ten years.

I got a pair of hand-raised orphan sisters from the vet's office about 8 years ago. One has CH (wobbly cat syndrome) & can be crazy at times, but they still get along & usually curl up together for a nap at least once a day.

This is the crazy one snuggling up next to Bud when they were both youngsters.

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Awwww...

I'm still trying to convince one of my brothers to take in a shelter cat or two. He's got one now, who could probably use some company...

Edit: interesting coat patterns -- one looks like an interrupted tabby stripe, the other a herringbone?

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Freya says, 'Hello from NOLA, baby!' (Laissez bon temps rouler!)



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Nice shots. Nice marmalade kitties!

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> FYI: You should give them separate dishes for food
> and water. It's much easier to keep their water
> clean that way.


Somebody told my sister ages ago that cats prefer that their water NOT be near their food, and that one way to get your cat to drink more water is to put the water bowl someplace away from the food bowl.

This rang true for me, as our 2 previous cats would always drink out of the dog's water bowl instead of their own. We stopped putting a water bowl down for them. We do have a bowl of water in another room for the current cat but he usually drinks out of the dog's bowl anyhow.

Does the dog get annoyed does he not even notice?

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He doesn't seem to notice. But then again, the cat has stuck his face into the dog's food bowl while the dog was eating with no repercussions. So this may not work for everyone.

Those plastic pet dishes with two compartments are such a bad idea that it's hard to believe they are still being sold. If you put in two types of dry food, it would be OK, but most people put wet and dry or water and food, annd what results is a mess that cats don't want to eat.

Some cats do better with metal or ceramic dishes.

When we adopted ours, two cats were cheaper together than separately. Can't recall the price break. And spayed/neutered is 1/2 the cost to license locally.

2 boys get along best, then a boy and a girl, and two girls least of all. Littermates get along better than strangers, so a pair of brothers are usually easy to live with.

BUT the allergen that people are allergic to is a protein in cat saliva, so it isn't actually cat dander that people are allergic to, it is the dried cat spit ON the dander. that is why a small scratch can really itch, as the claw may have been covered with dried cat spit. Unfortunately male cats have more of the protein in their saliva than females. So I am really allergic to cats, and of course we have 2 brothers......



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