Biscuit, Marie-Noir and a Match

We're starting off today with a lovely little pair from our past - Biscuit and Marie-Noir Suprenant!

Here's dear Biscuit as a wee little lady.

And the floof beauty, Marie-Noir.



And here's an update from Molly, their mom!

Hi Laurie,

It's been a few years, but I thought I'd send you an update on the girls. They've turned into wonderful, talkative, floofy, happy cats. They have a brother, Jean Luc, and they all adore each other. They take turns sleeping, grooming each other and zooming around the house at top speed. Often I'll end up with all three napping on my lap.

 Biscuit (or as we call her, Temperance, or Tempe for short) is just as excited to give nose-kisses and knead as when she was a kitten. She sloooowly scootches up from your lap, to your tummy, to your chest, to around your neck if you'll let her, kneading all the way. Her noises are amazing and she is just absolutely beautiful. Sometimes she decides she's tired of being beautiful and zooms around the house with her ears pinned back, a goofy look on her face, causing trouble with her siblings (she never finishes what she starts) and making the most outrageous and amusing sounds.

Marie-Nior (or Constance) was definitely the shy one, but especially over the last year has become a delicate-voiced, richly-colored and outgoing lady. In the sunlight, she shines reddish with tabby markings (almost impossible to photograph!). She is by far the best hunter - despite being an indoor-only cat, she's caught two birds!! She loves burrowing under blankets and will even paw at you to get under a blanket-tent made by your knees. She is also the most aggressive for cuddles in the morning, if we let her in. She digs under pillows and blankets to find hands to nudge under and demand pets. It is incredibly endearing. Jean Luc is a squashy-faced, snuffly-nosed and super-plush buff boy, found by a friend and taken in to give him a good home. They love their big brother, and he loves them. He's the goofiest, chillest of the bunch.

 Hope you enjoy, 

 -Molly

I did enjoy!  Thank you for sharing, Molly!  It's so nice seeing the girls again and meeting their brother too!  What a happy little bunch!


If you like Alumni Week, and I think you do,  you're going to LOVE today!   Let me explain..

Our awesome anonymous donor is back to today with a huge $2500 match!  She'll be matching our donations, dollar-for-dollar, until we reach the $2500 cap.   The match ends at 9:00 PM tonight (Pacific TIme) so we've got about 12 hours to make it happen.

To make things a little more exciting,  and help us meet the match sooner rather than later today,  I'll be posting another alumni update every time we bring in another $500 in donations.   SO if we meet the match, we'll see five more updates before the day is out!   I'm prepping the posts now, and I'll be watching the FUNdraising site close, so I'll do my very best to post the moment we roll past each $500.

It's going to be FUN!

To have your dollars doubled, and help us get closer to our goal, please visit our FUNdraising page!

Thank you awesome anonymous donor for bringing yet another great match to the table.   And thank you Molly for the update.  And thank you everyone for all this amazing support.

Goodbye Girls

The kitten population in our house has drastically decreased. In the past few days, we've said to goodbye to two pairs, and now just Ve Ching remains.

First to go, were Miss Biscuit and Marie-Noire.

For quite some time, Molly had been following the IBKC. She was wanting to adopt a pair of kittens, but was waiting to finish up college and do a little traveling before committing to a pair.

When she was ready, Molly , who just happens to be the twin sister of Claire, who adopted Thelma and Ridley Lyttleton, sent me an email introducing herself. She came down to meet the girls shortly after they moved in with us. Even though she had her eyes on another pair, she ended up choosing Biscuit and Marie-Noire. As you can see, Biscuit worked her magic, and Charmed Miss Molly immediately.



Molly waited patiently for her kittens to grow. As soon as they hit two pounds, off they went for surgery, then off they went to Molly.






She's sent me an update already. The girls settled in fast, and everyone is happy and doing well. There's lots of kitten antics and neck nuzzling going on.

So, I guess technically, Biscuit and Marie-Noire and now cousins to Ridley and Thelma. Yay for kitty cousins!

And YAY for happy kittens and happy adopters!!

Focus Girls, Focus

Getting them to sit still is one thing,,,, getting them to focus is another...

And while I have YOUR attention,  I would like to announce ANOTHER matching donation challenge from our dear friend, Cynthia!  

She will be matching all of our donations, until they reach $1000. So for every dollar we donate, she'll be donating a dollar too!!

Here's a chance to double your dollars and help turn ONE squillion into TWO squillion!!  And once we do that, we'll be pretty dang close to $35 squillion! 

This is the fifth of our matching donation challenges.  Last time we came really close NOT to making it.  Thanks to some well timed checks in the mail, they put us over the top in the final minutes, and turned our 1 squillion into two.    Whew. It was a nail-biter.

The challenge ends at 3:00 Pacific Time,  today.   Let's rock it, friends. 

Click HERE to double your donation dollars. 

Thank you , Cynthia!!   Thank you,  EVERYONE!  

Suprenants Settling In

A little squabbling, scrapping, then napping...   I love watching the kittens wind down.  

Miss Marie-Noire

Sweet Marie-Noire, wispy little beauty,  is always happy to spend some time in your lap.  

She's lovely, and loving.  

Keep Your Eye on the Prize

Kittens of Mass Destruction

The other morning, I heard an unusual rustling coming from the kitten room. I went in to investigate, and caught some naughty kittens in the act.

I had left their little kitten climber too close to the table I had set up our little telethon set on. Betty and Marie-Noire had climbed up there, got on the table, and were trashing the joint. I'm not sure they were the only ones responsible for the mess because the others weren't too far away, involved in similar merriment.

The tiny chairs were turned over, tote board numbers with teeth marks were on the ground, the telephones were strewn about. One kitten was behind the curtain and batting at the other on the other side.

I got there just in the nick of time. It seemed it was only a matter of moments before the walls would be literally coming down.

Naturally, I grabbed my camera to document the mad scene.

After a few pictures, I plucked the kittens from the set. I had to laugh, Betty had a number two stuck to her foot. Not a number two as in poo, but an actual number two from the tote board.

No major harm done, no one got hurt, and I got a few pictures...

So, if you were planning on making a donation, please do so online. It might be a while before our phone system is up and running again. Thanks kittens... great timing.

To make a donation, please visit HERE. Thanks!

Another One Named!

Nanette was the lucky bidder who won the floofy gal's auction, and now another Suprenant Sister has been named!



I know you're all dying to know what it is.  I thought first I would share with you Nanette's kitten-naming thought process.  Here's a bit from her email.

1.)    Her surname, if I am not mistaken, is French, probably by way of Canada.
2.)    A pic with one of her sisters leads me to believe she possesses a bit of Gallic cattitude.
3.)    She has a classically lovely coat; luxuriant, yet subtle in its color complexity.  She is the Chanel of kittehs.
4.)    She cries out for an elegantly hyphenated Francophile name.


Therefore, I propose that we call La Petite Mademoiselle..........

MARIE-NOIRE SUPRENANT

And so she is....

Nice work, Nanette.  I appreciate all the thought you put into assigning this floofy gal the PERFECT name.    It suits her so well!

By the way, Nanette is a repeat customer!  She was the one responsible for naming Luigi Fortunato in last year's fundraiser.    And  Eleanor, who named  Betty June, was also responsible for naming Dominick Fortunato last year!     Thanks to you both for your generosity!!  

Tune in tomorrow when we reveal the lovely little lynx-point's name....