I have a friend who loves kittens. More specifically, young kittens whose heads are walnut-shaped. I never gave it much thought, I mean kittens are plenty cute, but usually by the time they are out of the cute kitten stage they typically grow on you and you like em no matter how big/fat they become in adulthood. Not my friend.
I guess I sort of started this obsession for her when I gave her a kitten as a birthday present. She had been really sad and depressed about her domestic situation, and the kitten really helped her deal with it. The particular kitten I gave her was selected from a litter of farm kittens at my dad’s house, which is in a rural area. These cats are very hardy; they get all the food they need by hunting, though they won’t hesitate to gobble up food we give them. They are also great hunters, rapidly wiping out the local rodent population then moving on to larger game (squirrels, rabbits, large birds :eek: ) The kitten I picked for her was chosen for his hunting prowess, being the first among his 8-week old litter to catch and kill a mouse. She loved the kitten, but more because of its kittenish looks than talents. The fact that this adorable kitten grew to an enourmous killing machine wasn’t as impressive to her as when it was walnut-headed
A kitten with a walnut for a head would keep bumping into things. Eventually the walnut shell would crack; hey, there’s a nut in there! Then someone would eat it. And the kitten would die. That is sad. Don’t breed kittens with walnuts for heads.
Silly, they don’t have walnuts for heads. They’re heads are shaped like walnuts! But then they grow up and get big, and my friend wants a NEW kitten with a walnut shaped head!
May I be the first to point out that “My Friend’s Unhealthy Obsession with Walnut-Headed Kittens” would make a great—if somewhat unwieldy—rock-band name?
Okay, for the “ignorant-on-this-subject” among us (okay, just me), what’n heck does a ‘walnut-headed’ kitten look like, as compared to a ‘normal-headed’ kitten?
Would someone post a pic or two of each for comparison?
Okay, when kittens are really young, they have these roundish heads that are somewhat shaped like a walnut. Usually they also have their ‘kitten fluff’ downy fur at this point as well. Eventually though, they grow out of it, and reach this awkward adolescent stage in which they are just a smaller looking version of an adult cat.
My cat didn’t. She had - and still has - a tiny, pointed black face with eyes that gleam like jewels. She is whippet-lean, almost two-dimensional in her leanness, and has never been fluffy, or walnut-headed, or any other sort nut.
And she is quite indisputably the most beautiful feline ever to grace this earth…
