#kittens in boots

[luxjii]

kitty

PATREON

[solar919]

I made a wheel of all my favourite fictional cats!!

[obieandboots]

🥹🥹

[sexthefinale]

puss in boots lookin ahh

[catfindr]

[allcatsconstitutethesamefamily]

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My collection of vintage Puss in Boots imagery is stepping out.

[creelarke]

BEHOLD!!!!!! PUSS IN BOOT

photo found on Pinterest

[himbionn]

Little piece inspired by the RP me and my partner are doing

(Yes the kitten is named Chat)

[detroitlib]

View of an advertising card for J.V. Lisee, depicting a cat watching a butterfly on a shoe. Printed on front: "School shoes a specialty. High and medium-cut home manufactured. J.V. Lisee, 146 Woodward Ave. Lowest prices guaranteed."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[sleepy-truper]

this is my first time sending a draw request; but... if its okay with you, little cute kitten hissing + proctecting Colonel könig from a cockroach...?

Oh absolutely :)) <3

The small kitten is a fighter at heart. So is Konig but don't let the kitten know. It's its duty to ptotect the strong colonel :}

[sharpestasp]

Learning from Boots

I mentioned that we acquired a kitten back in ... June? Late May? What is time.

I don't know if I remembered to mention here that Boots, our very baby boy, is deaf. Not just hard of hearing, but truly deaf. Demonstrated to the vet who, the week prior had said 'his ear drums look fine' by her being present when the carrier fell down with a loud bang... and Boots didn't notice because he hadn't been looking that way.

I've had cats who went HoH or functionally deaf. Because his ear structure is fully intact, it appears that Boots was born deaf. He's never known sound, and it is an experience for me to adapt to his needs.

First thing we did was learn what was encouraged. Walk heavier, drum fingers on couches to get attention, basically use vibrations to keep from startling him.

He does not notice these tactics. But for all he can sometimes be startled, for the most part? He's chill about us, or Mischa, or even Hissy Miss Evie, being suddenly in his space.

He prefers a light touch to wake him. He wakes into full purr mode. His meows range from practically silent beeps (when he has your eyes in his sight) to the loudest foghorn meows of pitiful woe is me if he cannot see a person.

He is extremely tactile. As in MUST be touching you to fully allow himself sleep in the open. Otherwise? He finds small spaces to sleep, or he sleeps in a position that is reminiscent of a Sphinx or Resting Anubis pose.

He makes a POINT of making eye contact when he wants something, be it food or attention.

He MUST help with cleaning the litter box (I don't think we can pin this on his lack of hearing, but it is the strangest litter box behavior in any of my cats ever) by inspecting each scoop lifted.

He wants to snuggle Mischa, but Mischa was not cat-socialized as a kitten, and mistakes it, so it turns to wrestling every time. However, I have found them sleeping in be-beside pose, so it's fine. And Mischa will purposefully twitch his tale for bait.

He doesn't understand Evie's hisses/growls. We have yet to hear him growl at all, but he figured out hissing -- and thinks it is the face/sound that goes with 'play'. This has not endeared him to Evie. And his own attempt at it can only be described as the sound a spray can makes before the product actually comes out.

All cats talk with their body. His body language is a tiny bit different from most cats, and I can't describe it more than... silent actor emphasis?

We still talk to him, then laugh at ourselves a bit. However, I have gotten him to understand a firmly pointed index finger is the equivalent of 'no, bad'. And if he plays too sharply, a very gentle tap on his nose will see claws and teeth gentled. (I'm talking barely touching his nose, but quickly after the offending action)

In short? I am DAMNED glad we took THIS kitten from the litter. I don't know how the others turned out, if they can hear, or anything. But this little fella has taught us to adapt to him, while learning how to be clear to us.

[weirdkev27]

Kitten: That was horrible! Your actions were horrible! YOU'RE HORRIBLE! You're an irredeemable monster!

Pyotr: Oh...Oh... What took you so long, IDIOT!

[obieandboots]

The dynamic duo

[thebean-17]

[catfindr]

[crustyfloor]

Maybe (and I have a suspicion) that this cursed haircut will make a comeback in round 7...as the aliens aim to clean Till's appearance up a little more. If he becomes so willing enough to deal with it.