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June 22, 2014 by Tien Chiu

Happy birthday!

No, not to me! To someone much more important. 🙂

On September 22, 2013, the vet estimated that our beautiful kittens were about three months old. Accordingly, we decided that their “official” birthday should be June 21, the summer solstice. It seemed appropriate to give them the longest day of the year, since they have brought so much light into our lives!

So yesterday was their first birthday – they are officially adult cats now. They celebrated by running around the house like crazy, then sleeping like crazy, then spending long periods in front of the screen door, watching cat TV. In short, they continued to do all the wonderful cat-like things they usually do. They are awesome cats and we love them very much.

In celebration, I thought I’d give you a series of photos, one or two for each month since they arrived in our lives:

Tigress at the shelter
September 22, 2013 – Tigress at the shelter, investigating my foot
September 25 - Fritz playing with a cat toy
September 25 – Fritz playing with a cat toy
October 3 - kittens attacking the photographer!
October 3 – kittens attacking the photographer!
https://tienchiu.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fritz-and-tigress-playing.mp4

October 12 – Fritz and Tigress tussling

11-22 - Fritz and Tigress cuddled together
November 22 – Fritz and Tigress cuddled together
November 26 - Fritz and Tigress harassing a human
November 26 – Fritz and Tigress harassing a human
December 10 - Fritz and Tigress playing with boot laces
December 10 – Fritz and Tigress playing with boot laces
December 13 - Fritz the incredible flying kitten
December 13 – Fritz the incredible flying kitten
January 20 - cats in the dyepots!
January 20 – cats in the dyepots!

 

February 20 - a sleeping Tigress
February 20 – a sleeping Tigress
February 24 - Fritz lounging about
February 24 – Fritz lounging about
March 22 - Tigress eating asparagus
March 22 – Tigress eating asparagus
March 24 - Fritz guarding the laundry
March 24 – Fritz guarding the laundry
April 19 - Tigress and Fritz exploring a new piece of furniture
April 19 – Tigress and Fritz exploring a new piece of furniture
May 4 - Tigress playing peekaboo
May 4 – Tigress playing peekaboo
May 11 - Who shredded the paper towels??
May 11 – Who shredded the paper towels??


June 9 – Feline harassment at its best!

So happy birthday to Fritz and Tigress! May they sleep like crazy, run around the house like crazy, and be their utterly adorable selves for many more.

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Comments

  1. helzhart says

    June 22, 2014 at 11:58 am

    Love your photos, sharing with us. Love kitties, have none right now so this is great. Asparagus? What taste.

  2. Carmen Martinez says

    June 22, 2014 at 4:20 pm

    Happy Birthday to them. They are adorable. Your Tigress looks exactly like my Pepper. I have an orange Tabby now named Tigger! I love(ed) them.

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