Since Halloween is was last Friday, this Friday I can post a non-black cat picture. While ‘Stripe’ might be named for the character from the Gremlin movie, her personality is sweet like Gizmo and not a meanie like some of the other kittens in this batch.
Sweet Stripe
Today is Halloween so the streets will be filled with children dressed up in costumes collecting candy this evening. Pumpkins, ghosts, witches and even black cats are often a symbol of Halloween.
Black cats have served as objects of superstition for years, with Medieval Germany, France and Spain associating bad luck with them. Although in some cultures black cats were worshipped like in Ancient Egypt.
But in the United States, the Puritan Pilgrims distrusted anything associated with witches and sorcery including black cats and they would burn black cats on Shrove Tuesday to protect the home from fire and so black cats have been associated with the Halloween witches.
The bad superstition of black cats have caused them to be the least likely to be adopted (so I guess no one will want the two little black kittens at the farm). But some animal shelters will not allow adoption of black cats near Halloween as some ‘owners’ use them for living decorations and then abandon them.
Course you can’t believe this cute face on this black kitten, as moments before I had to peel it off my head where it was having fun racing around my back and head and it was living up to the Halloween tradition of being a monster.
Halloween Monster
After breakfast yesterday, the two kittens at the farm (one orphaned and one semi-orphaned who became buddies) disappeared and didn’t return last night. So we don’t know if they hitched a ride under the vehicle, like one kitten used to do on multiple occasions, or if they decided to go on a Sunday stroll and wandered too far from the buildings and got ‘losted’. At least no signs of them squished on the highway at least but we still don’t know where they disappeared to.
Lost on a Sunday Stroll
Just like little kids, kittens don’t need fancy toys to have fun. A empty cardboard box provides hours of fun for kids and kittens and even a curly garden hose provides fort walls for the kitten to hide until he pounces on his next victim. But the kitten might become a victim of the water hose when the curious kitten syndrome strikes and he crawls into the tunnel and the ‘snake’ swallows him.
Curious Kitten
This cat is hiding under some old machinery, but she isn’t watching for mice or birds. She is watching for some human to come by and tickle her tummy. And shortly after I took the shot, she attacked my camera and got my lens all dirty so I couldn’t take pictures of new baby calves.
On Watch Duty
I’m not sure what this calico kitten is seeing that has her licking her chops but I’m glad she isn’t looking at me that way.
Calico Kitten
Kittens act all tough and brave, at least until a dog walks by and then they are a scaredy cat!
Scaredy Cat
The red squirrel in yesterday’s picture better look out since there are other critters in the trees besides squirrels, chipmunks and birds. Actually this poor kitten was driven up the tree by a dog and the dog had treed quite a few kittens in a short time.
Treed Kitten
