Kitties - Before and After

Our dogs have a monopoly on the spotlight in our household, but we love our kitties too.  I was going through some old e-mails in an attempt to clear out some space (thank you, gmail, for increasing the limit to 10GB!) and found some baby photos I thought I would share!

This here is Ham, somewhere in early 2005.  He was the cutest little floofball you ever did see.  We found him through a listing in the newspaper (newspaper.. do those still exist?) and he is ½ persian, ½ random barn cat.

 

Here he is all grow'd up.  Still a handsome devil!

We got Punkin in late 2005, and I couldn't limit myself to just one of his baby photos.  He was such a cute little brat!  When we brought him home, Ham hated him.  It was a chorus of hisses and growls in our condo.. for precisely 2 days.  On the third day, I turned around at my desk to find this.  They have been best friends ever since.

I hate it when the weather is bad and their fur gets wet because they're so hard to dry. Thankfully, I found the best cat dryers on the market and now I don't worry too much about drying their fur for hours.

So protective.

We never could explain what made Ham go from absolute hatred to absolute infatuation in just 2 days.. but he was crazy about his lil orange man.

.. and here's Mister Orange Man now.  He may be a clumsy oaf with chronic rhinitis (you don't want your cat to have this.. ugh.. my poor house) but he's a sweet lil guy.