Redheaded Teenage Kitten

Saturday we found a stray orange teenage kitten on our walk through the thirty-acre cemetery on our street. Stray cats have been showing up a lot lately. Sadly, with this economy and full animal shelters, people are dropping animals off in the cemeteries. On Thanksgiving weekend we found a mother cat and her four kittens at the cemetery in Blackstone Mass, also on our street. We were able to capture two of the kittens, and our friend in Blackstone got them neutered and placed in a home together.

The caretaker of the nearby cemetery said the orange cat had been outside fending for himself for a few weeks in the snow and cold. He is very sweet and seems healthy, a purr bomb who loves affection! He has a lovely coat of short orange-and-white fur which makes a Rorschach pattern of a smiling clown face on his back. Once you see it you can't NOT see it! His belly and legs are white. He's laid back and has even let me trim his claws with no struggle. He and Lily-dog get along fine as long as no food is out. We have fed him and given him fresh water. He has a hearty appetite for both! We're trying out a bunch of names; Yammy, Oscar, Jasper, Apricoon, and others. We'll figure it out soon. We're teaching him about the cat box. He seems unfamiliar with it, and when we bring him to it he just wants to lounge in it luxuriously, like at the beach!