Thread: 5 more sleeps...

He is home!! Woohooooo

5hr drive back and forth, only to come home to torrential downpour and no phone lines (which means no Internet until the lines go back up). Piccies will have to wait til tomorrow :(

Lucky my phone has wireless Internet through another provider.

How adorable are MC babies? The meows and trills and noise that come out are gorgeous. He is such a character. He runs around full bore and skids on the floorboards haha. He plays with all the new toys I got him.

Can't say introducing him to his older brother and sister was a success. Lots of hissing and unhappy older cats. Leo was fine though, not a care in the world.

Caught my older boy Max giving Leo a sniff and when He noticed I was watching him started hissing at Leo haha funny boy.

Right now I'm laying in bed (7:51pm - total granny bedtime, but hey I was up at 4:00am) and Leo is attacking my feet and legs. He has slept all day and is now full of beans. The joys of babies haha

I loveeeee him!!!

Here is my beautiful boy. 12 weeks old and an absolute darling.
Coat/colouring-wise, it's an interesting one. He even had the breeder stumped! You don't see the full effect of his coat until you see him in the flesh.
His mum is a silver mackeral tabby and his dad a blackish/brownish smoke (with Leo's grandfather being a red and white).
His mum threw two silver mackerals, a classic black/brown mackeral, a black smoke and Leo.

Leo has tan on his face, paws, back and a tiny bit on his belly. He has a little bit of smoke brown around his neck on his shoulders and splotches on his back but the rest of him is black/silver. When you part his silver is fades out towards his skin, which his breeder tells me may be a sign his silver will lighten slightly.

He is a classic tabby and I think the breeder has put him down as a black/brown classic but told me I may need to change this if I show him and the judges disagree on his colouring.

Regardless of whether he be black, brown, silver or purple, I still love him!!!

P.S. Woke up at midnight to find this little man snuggled into the crook of my neck, fast asleep. So cuteeee!!!

Pic 3 and 4 look quite yellow due to the sun coming in at a funny angle. His coat is not yellow.

At last we see the litle fella too,what another little cutie makes the old broody feelings start up again,he does look like a brown classic by his pictures but will be interesting to see how / if it changes as he grows,will you be showing him ?
Wonder where he is going to be spending his night from now on...?
Hope his elders soon grow to luv him as much as mum already does,hugs & kisses to them all but a special one for Leo...x

The breeder said his colour will 'lock/settle' (not sure if thats the right word) at approx. 18months of age. The only problem is, I don't want him to grow up hahaha. I'm loving the kitten too much!!! He is a dream.

Yep I hope to show him. I'm probably biased because he is mine but I think he has a gorgeous coat and I want to show him off hahaha. Like one of those stage mums who put their daughters in beauty pagents!!! Haha (except I wont inject botox into him)

His older brother Max has spent today playing with him so there is light at the end of the tunnel there. Leo keeps going over to Max and sniffing his face. They were even sleeping 30cm away from each other before. Leo went up to Max and laid down right infront of him. I'm so pleased Max is giving Leo a chance.
Miss Jaelah on the other hand is not loving this at all. She has not moved from my spare room. She is as high off the ground as she can get and growls/hisses the second Leo is anywhere near the spare room door. It's not a nice feeling but hopefully she snaps out of it soon and falls in love with Leo.

I just gave Leo a big kiss and he sends a big kiss back to you >(^^)< xx

Congratulations!
You have got a winner.
Don't we, humans act like miss Jaelah? Newcomers always encounter this at any workplace and get picked on for at least a month until the novelty wanes,
and they become part of the pack. Primal instinct is alive forever.

Originally Posted by Halcyon

Congratulations!
You have got a winner.
Don't we, humans act like miss Jaelah? Newcomers always encounter this at any workplace and get picked on for at least a month until the novelty wanes,
and they become part of the pack. Primal instinct is alive forever.

That is very true!!! Although I'm happy to report Jaelah has left the spare room and has taken residence on the kitchen counter and 2.6mtr high kitty scratch post so she can have full view of Leo.

There are still hisses and growls but it's an improvement from locking herself in the spare room and sitting in the dark all day.

Feeding is proving to be a pain. Older cats are more interested in kitten food (although not enough to eat a lot of it), kitten is more interested in adult food and wants to eat all of it and more!!!
Kitten has decided he won't eat his food because the older cats food is way more interesting and yummy. He's like a Hoover. Turn around and all the food is gone before you even have a chance to pick it off the floor. Luckily no runny bums yet!!!