# New kitty! This is Holiday **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 7, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978 "2024-04-07T18:20:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/1 "2024-04-07T18:20:22Z")
“Holly” for short, who is currently hiding behind our futon. She’s with us on a two-week trial basis to ensure she and our [existing kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-new-kitties/705639/16) get along. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/y8iqlkR.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/y8iqlkR) Holiday came to us from a foster family via [the Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation,](https://www.lostdogrescue.org/) which obtained her from an organization out in the Blue Ridge area. Nobody’s quite sure about her age but she is approximately 6 years old and on the small side. Word is, she had a hard life on the streets after getting loose as a kitten; no idea if accidental or intentional. She has marks on her neck as of she was in a collar for too long. Will have more images when she starts venturing around. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/2 "2024-04-07T18:45:34Z")
Well, hey there, Holly! (_said softly, while looking away & not making direct eye contact_) I’m glad you’re off the mean streets. I hope you will be, too, once you have some time to look around & get your bearings. Please enjoy the upcoming food and, when you’re ready for them, pettin’ and scritches. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/3 "2024-04-07T18:54:33Z")
Hello, Holiday! (said like @purplehorseshoe said it.) This is an improvement. Really. I know you need to take time to decide that for yourself. But I suspect you’ll figure it out soon. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/4 "2024-04-07T19:28:58Z")
Gave her a bit of moist food in a bowl behind the futon and now she’s off exploring somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/5 "2024-04-07T19:49:19Z")
Exploring the kitchen. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/ZyS7UGV.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/ZyS7UGV) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/6 "2024-04-07T19:51:31Z")
Cute Kitty. Hope all works great between old and new. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/7 "2024-04-07T19:55:37Z")
Keep the photos coming! ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/8 "2024-04-07T21:37:30Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Gave her a bit of moist food in a bowl behind the futon and now she’s off exploring somewhere. Out from behind the couch already! A very good sign. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/9 "2024-04-07T23:11:27Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Hope all works great between old and new. 👍 They’ve had a brief introduction, no hostility reported. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/10 "2024-04-07T23:38:19Z")
What a sweet looking kitteh!! Love those bright green eyes! Glad it’s all going well so far. Congrats on your new family member! ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/11 "2024-04-08T00:36:36Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > They’ve had a brief introduction, no hostility reported. Another very good sign. However – even if there is hostility, don’t panic. I have multiple times known cats to become great friends despite major hostility when they first met, and sometimes for some time thereafter. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/12 "2024-04-08T05:25:53Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Out from behind the couch already! A very good sign. Indeed it is. Guess she liked the gooshy-food. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/13 "2024-04-08T06:34:02Z")
Great looking kitty! She’s a charmer, for sure. _The naming of cats is a difficult matter,_ _It isn’t just one of your Holiday games …_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/14 "2024-04-08T06:48:50Z")
What a sweetie! Congrats on the new addition to your family. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/15 "2024-04-08T13:50:02Z")
I spent most of the night as a kitty bed. 😺 Sure is a quiet little girl. The fosters think she has significant hearing loss and/or is simply not fazed by _anything_; will have to get that checked on her first visit to our vet next week. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/16 "2024-04-08T14:08:19Z")
My Ursala Kitteh is also quiet but her hearing is fine. Being a cat, she chooses to ignore almost everything. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/17 "2024-04-08T14:18:07Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I spent most of the night as a kitty bed. Yay! > [@Skywatcher](#): > > The fosters think she has significant hearing loss and/or is simply not fazed by _anything_; will have to get that checked on her first visit to our vet next week. Even totally deaf cats manage just fine. (As you may well know.) – it can sometimes confound the others. I took in a cat once who had gone deaf. I have a sort of two-level cat feeding arrangement: a table, and next to it part of the top of a cupboard, which is significantly higher from the table. Shortly after he arrived, he was eating on the lower table, and one of the other cats was on top of the cupboard – swearing her head off at him from the high ground. He ignored her entirely. She thought he was so massively dominant that he didn’t care what she said to him, even though she was in a position to attack him from above. But he was ignoring her because he couldn’t hear a thing she was saying. It gave him a huge advantage in cat fights: much of cat fighting is decided during the vocal challenge. He could and did vocalize just fine; but he apparently thought the other cat was afraid to say anything. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/18 "2024-04-08T14:50:50Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Even totally deaf cats manage just fine. (As you may well know.) Yep. When I was little, one of my sisters returned to live with the rest of the family and brought a stereotypical deaf white cat with her. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/19 "2024-04-10T12:44:13Z")
[![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/MarFOpH.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/MarFOpH) To give you an idea of how small she is, that’s a queen size bed. No, the bed is never made. I get, like, hot flashes in my feet and want to be able to uncover them as needed. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978/20 "2024-04-10T16:59:05Z")
You can’t make a bed while a cat’s so comfortable on top of it, anyway. And there is a cat who has most definitely decided that this new life is quite satisfactory. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-this-is-holiday/999978.md?page=2)