# Where's my kitten? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 29, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468 "2013-08-29T03:35:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/61 "2013-09-03T22:18:05Z")
> [@turtlescanfly](#): > > OK, before I get booted off for disobeying “the rules” here are the pictures of my pets. > > [http://www.flickr.com/photos/100980786@N04/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/100980786@N04/) > > The first is the troublemaker that started it all. The 3rd and 4th I might have gotten a picture of the same kitten, but they both look virtually identical, so there you go. > Mama cat (Cookie)should be obvious (and yes, she always has that “I’d rather be elsewhere look”). > And the dog (Ziggy), who can’t figure out what’s so special about these little balls of fluff… > > **WileE** thanks for the tip, I’d actually already moved them onto the floor. I’m not too worried about the dog, he really is a little bit afraid of them (or afraid of what Cookie will do to him if she catches him near her babies!), but I keep them separated as much as possible. > > We will probably only be keeping 1 kitten at most, finding good homes for the rest. SQUEEE!!! Everyone’s adorable, including Ziggy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/62 "2013-09-03T23:31:15Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Let me get this straight - we have flying turtles, now? … > [@Sailboat](#): > > I assume turtles don’t fly very fast. > > … They do not so much fly as plummet. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/63 "2013-09-04T00:33:47Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > They do not so much fly as plummet. That’s still flying. I mean, it’s vertical and all, but it’s flying. And, **turtles** , those are some mighty cute kittens. I think 3 and 4 are different, so you did get one of each. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/64 "2013-09-04T00:49:16Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > They do not so much fly as plummet. Yes, but consider the enormous commercial possibilities should they succeed. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/65 "2013-09-04T01:43:07Z")
As God is my witness, I thought turtles could fly. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/66 "2013-09-04T14:53:57Z")
I took a picture of my cat Jack[sitting in the open second story window](http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/StG61/Picture006_zps99c8fb31.jpg) this morning. StG ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/67 "2013-09-04T15:05:36Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > I took a picture of my cat Jack[sitting in the open second story window](http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/StG61/Picture006_zps99c8fb31.jpg) this morning. > > StG What a GORGEOUS picture! I also like the name Jack for a cat. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/68 "2013-09-04T15:12:06Z")
Holy cats! Cuteness! Want! WANT! Lookit the precious mighty Ms. Whose a little cutenesses youse is. Yes youse is. \ ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/69 "2013-09-04T15:28:32Z")
**ThelmaLou** - I picked him up from a co-worker who was going to take him to the pound if I didn’t take him. I didn’t have a crate with me, so he went into a copier paper box. So he’s Jack in the Box. Here’s a pic of him as a kitten [sitting on the porch rocker](http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/StG61/Jack1.jpg) last Fall after I painted my house. StG ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/70 "2013-09-04T15:39:04Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > They do not so much fly as plummet. …and make Mario much smaller… PS- Keep the ‘troublemaker’. You’ll never regret it. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/71 "2013-09-04T18:40:03Z")
Those are some cute kittens ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/72 "2013-09-04T19:55:30Z")
Adorable. if I wasn’t at my physical space limit of three cats, I’d take one. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/73 "2013-09-04T21:28:06Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > **ThelmaLou** - I picked him up from a co-worker who was going to take him to the pound if I didn’t take him. I didn’t have a crate with me, so he went into a copier paper box. So he’s Jack in the Box. Here’s a pic of him as a kitten [sitting on the porch rocker](http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/StG61/Jack1.jpg) last Fall after I painted my house. > > StG _\_ Omigod. You have quite a way with the camera, my friend. Those pictures are wonderful, and not just because of the everlasting perfection of the subject matter. If you have large/high-res versions of those pics, I would so much love to have them for my very own wallpaper. Please. If you PM me, I’ll send you my email address. BTW, _Comte_, aren’t you [that guy](http://www.alchemylab.com/count_saint_germain.htm) who predicts stuff? ETA: Just looked at your other pics. Red was a great choice for that darling house. At least you’ll be able to find it in the snow! ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/74 "2013-09-05T01:18:36Z")
**ThelmaLou** - Thanks for the compliment - I’m really not much of a photographer - I just got a couple lucky shots. I don’t I have hi-res copies. The porch pic was taken with a 15 mp point and shoot and the window pic was taken this morning with my phone. I then just pasted them into photobucket and deleted them from my camera/phone. You must’ve missed the whole “[help me decide what color to paint my house](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=655713)” thread. We do the roof this Fall. I took the St. Germain name from the series of vampire books by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, who patterned the titular character after the historical figure. I started as StG on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer boards in '97. StG ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/75 "2013-09-05T12:12:26Z")
About an hour after getting home last night, it occurred to me that I hadn’t seen my cat since I came in. Because he’s fifteen years old now, I am constantly aware of the fact that despite his seeming good health, the odds are that he’s not going to be with me much longer. So if he doesn’t greet me when I get home, I start to worry that maybe he’s unable to. I searched the whole damn house. Twice. Then, completely by accident when I was on my way to the bathroom, I found [Khan’s new hiding place](http://s8.photobucket.com/user/Draeleigh/media/null_zps87d1e87b.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0). That cat is an asshole. But not quite as much of one as his late brother, who did his level best to get right in the middle of [whatever I was doing](http://s8.photobucket.com/user/Draeleigh/media/null_zps075e0502.jpg.html?sort=3&o=6). ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/76 "2013-09-21T02:00:59Z")
Now it’s my turn for “My kitten is missing”. [Jack](http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/StG61/Picture006_zps99c8fb31.jpg), the cat I photographed on 9/4, is missing. He’s been MIA for almost a week. He is primarily a house cat, occasionally venturing about 10’ from the back door to sit on the patio table. Never any farther. I’ve looked everywhere for him - throughout the house, even in rooms I know have been shut up. Under the back porch, under the house, in the attic. I even looked in the rafters above the covered front porch (and saw a shed snake skin hanging from the rafters! :eek: ). I even looked in the crisper drawer in the refrigerator, even though I _knew_ there was no way he got in there. I thought about him possibly being attacked by my several large dogs - they’re good with cats, but still - things happen. But in the rare event that the dogs have killed something (like the possum in the yard this week), they leave the body alone. And with two german shepherds, a doberman, a giant schnauzer, a standard poodle and an english setter, coyotes aren’t coming in my fenced yard. I’ve been down to the barn twice a day, and called for him there, even though he’s never been down that far. I’ve walked the road and my pastures looking for his body. Strangely, my gray cat Spike has been hanging out in the house all week, when normally he’d split his time between the house and barn. He’s scarcely moving from the kitchen chair the Jack likes to sit on. I keep hoping for some “Timmy’s in the well” signs from any of the animals, but no such luck. I’m just so worried and I can’t get him off my mind. I’d honestly rather know he was dead then not find any trace of him. StG ---
**Author:** ![turtlescanfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@turtlescanfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turtlescanfly)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468/77 "2013-09-21T02:56:48Z")
**StGermain** , that truly sucks. Wishing you a happy resolution soon! (and I completely understand the agony of not knowing…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-kitten/667468.md?page=3)