A Milton and Bunny Ashby Update!

Most likely, it's going to be a little quiet around here with the holiday and all, but I've got several alumni updates left to share, so I'm going to go ahead and post anyway!

Today we have the adorable Milton and Josephine (Bunny) Ashby!   Christopher, their pa, sent some sweet photos of the pair for us to enjoy !

First, let's take a look at back to when these Ashby kittens were tiny. That's Bunny on the left and Milton on the right.


 






Here's what their pa had to say:

They still get along really well, and are often cuddled up together. Blossom (Bunny)  can never get enough attention, and Buddy (Milton) has perfected his "turn on the water faucet" meow. 

We're a happy little family here on Beacon Hill in Seattle.

Thanks so much for sharing your kittens with us, Christopher! It's wonderful to see how close they still are today! Please give them love from all of us!


Ok, folks. Get your kitties inside before the fireworks start flying and keep them safe today. It's a scary day for the critters in the USA.

We'll see you tomorrow with a couple of more updates and we'll start gearing up for our FUNdraise, too!  See you then!

Now You Know!

Below are the answers to yesterday's alumni quiz.

So, how did you do? It was really hard, I know.

No one got them all correct, but a couple of you got six out of seven right, which is really awesome, because it was difficult.  Thanks for playing along! We'll try another one before the week is out.

More alum updates to come today,  and don't forget, we've got a huge matching happening now and ALL that we raise will help build the new room for the foster kittens, and Cynthia has offered up a $5000 match, and we've got $4155 to go, so if you're in a position to help, please do!

To learn more about the match and the room we are funding and see a touching video from Cynthia, just scroll down to the previous post!

To make a tax-deductible donation for the new foster room, visit our FUNdraising page.


#1 Fern Lyttelton

#2 Cyrus Loudermilk

#3 Luella Draper

# 4 Perry Draper

#5 and # 6 Bunny and Milton Ashby

# 7 Graham Loudermilk

The Tuxedo Alum

Here's a little collection our tuxedos from the past...

Darla and Olly Musselman


Josephine "Bunny" Ashby


Trudy Livermore


Inez Davenport


Reva Von Trout

Ashby Update!

Hey everybody, LOOK! It's our old friends Milton and Bunny Ashby! They just celebrated their first birthday, and are looking quite grown up! Thanks goes to their pa, Christopher, for sharing the lovely shots.

Milton's tabby stripes are spectacular as are Bunny's golden-greeny eyes. Soooo good to see you both again!!

A Bigger Bunny

Bunny's no baby anymore.

Perfect Pairings

Reva and Rex Von Trout


Inez and Edward Loomis Davenport


Trudy and Lyle Livermore


Josephine "Bunny" and Milton Ashby

Keeping up our long tradition of adopting out tuxedo girls with tabby boys, Bunny and Milton went together.

Since they've left, I've had lots of updates from their papa, Christopher. It sounds like they are completely enchanted by Bunny and Milton, and are enjoying these little bundles of energy and fluff in their lives.

No surprise at all, they are fabulous kittens.

It's Milton Monday

Nice Whiskers, Charlene

Back at ya, Bunny.

Josephine "Bunny" Ashby

The kitten-naming process is not an easy one. With each litter, I spend hours looking for names in old census reports, year books, movie credits, album liner notes and phone books. I read signs and employee name tags. I'll search wikipedia for topics like "romantic composers" or "depression era bankers". I take it quite seriously, and always hope to find the perfect name for every kitten.

So,, after days and days of thinking about the new kitties,, I decided that "Josephine" was a good fit for the only little girl in the litter. Then Craig, who rarely puts his two cents in on the subject informs me her name is "Bunny".

I laughed at him at first, and then it sunk in, and I realized it made complete sense. She is a Bunny.

The next morning, I called Sue and told her about Craig's suggestion. She had a similar initial reaction, but after it sunk in, it made complete sense to her too.

So meet Josephine "Bunny" Ashby. She'll answer to either names, but at this stage in her life, prefers to be called "Bunny".