Meet Zip & Code - Two New Additions to Our Family

My friend Debbie Chapman is a champion of homeless animals, as is her friend Kay, who goes to the Greenbriar Post Office daily to feed a colony of feral cats. Kay tries to capture them and get them neutered/spayed but some still are able to stay fertile. Recently she found 3 kittens and was able to rescue 2 of them. Debbie knew that Timitu, our 20 year old cat, had recently died so she asked if we might be interested in adopting one of the kittens. We decided to take both.

When we arrived at the Post Office to meet them, and Kay, we were both shocked at how tiny they are. The kittens that is. Kay is normal sized :-) Kay thinks they're only a month old. I have never adopted such young animals. Montesquieu was 10 weeks old when I got him and was about 5 times bigger than these guys. Or girls. We have no idea what gender they are.

Kay called them 'Uno' and 'Dos' but she also mentioned that she thought of calling Uno 'Zip' because s/he was always running around like crazy. Gina and I had considered several possible names. Cheech & Chong, Peanut Butter & Jelly, Venus & Serena, Donny & Marie... but not knowing their genders makes some of those not quite fit. Once we sat in the bathroom with them for 20 minutes (their realm for the time being) it became clear that 'Zip' was the perfect name for 'Uno' and Dos naturally became 'Code' since we did get them from the Post Office!



Here's Code along with the toy that Kay sent along with them. Kay also gave us food, litter, and KMR - a substitute for milk.

Now, don't you agree that these are the cutest little things in the whole wide world???????


Zip looks a bit concerned in this one!

This little space under the cabinet in Gina's bathroom will be all they need until they get a bit bigger. Expect a ton of photos to be posted in the near future :-)