Ellie, New little girl joins the family Options

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I started talki about Ellie in my topic about my baby Chewy but I decided here was the best place to carry on taking about our new little life as Chewy deserved his own topic whe I could talk to him through this place sometimes.

For those of you that dont know my baby Chewy was cruelly taken from me on January 3rd 2012 after a dog attacked him the day before. He taught me so much about love and well devastation was and still isn't a strong enou word to describe how I feel over losing him. I never planned on getting another cat....I have 2 11 month old kittens that we rescued from a ditch last June and the thought if replacing my baby boy just made me cry. But I kept looking at cat sanitary websites as for some reason they made me feel better....I can't understand why but I did. I came across one site where there was this 10 month old kitten called Ellie. She looked like my Chewy except obviously she was female. She had been a stray pregnant kitten (pregnant at such a young age!) and I felt sorry for her and her description was that all the carers loved her and she was a playful happy cat considering what she had been through....and it said she was special.

I didn't think anything of it as I didn't want another cat....bu something kept pulling me back to that site and after a month all ther other cats had been adopted and she hadn't.....I said to myself forget about it but a few weeks later she was still there so I said I would give it until my birthday week....by my birthday she was still there so I told my fiancé we had to go see her as I feel like I should....so we went there two days before my birthday on the 3rd of March....she was lovely and I knew I couldn't leave her....and then to my amazement they put her birthday down as the 5th of march.....the same as mine! Then I knew it must have been a sign right?

She didn't like my kittens too much t start with so we set her up in the spare room.

DannysMom and moon_beam thank you for your advice. I did as you said and every evening we allow them all to play in the sitting room as there is more space to escape and it is not Ellies territory (the kittens are quite laid back when it comes to territory) and it seems to be working. They still have a little squabble but the progress now is they are quite happy to walk past each other and leave each other alone so am thinking if we keep doing this over the next few weeks hopefully they will start tomproperly like each other?

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Hello DannysMom

Yes Keelan is on the move. He is now standing for a few seconds on his own with no support and had a lovely trip to the walk in centre (which is like a doctors but there open every day and you do not ave to make an appointment) today as he fell forward and bashed his head on the corner of the wall.

He doesnt say any words but I expect that to come after hes a year maybe a bit before. and amazingly at 10 months he still has no teeth lol I can actually imagine his first word being Ellie!

Trust me Fudge is still scared of every little noise he hears but he is also very affectionate with me and think he knows Keelan is part of the family.

No snow yet and we have not been forecast any I love the snow and want to take Keelan out in it......before he an walk and roll around and slip in it

I of course assume your Christmas tree is up now. How do Mindy and Shelley cope with it? Mine is up high so the only thing I have to watch is that the cats do not go behind it and wee!! That has happened before

Oooooo those candy canes sound nice. I love chocolate and I have to admit I use Christmas as a massive excuse to eat tons of it!

Ellie has become so good with Keelan. Being a typical older baby Keelan gets excited when he sees Ellie and has started grabbing her and she just lays there all relaxed letting him get away with it! The others just run away.

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