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August 1, 2025

Kittenses 5-year Gotchaversary

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I can hardly believe we’ve had the “Kittenses” — Ritz and Dante — for five years! But, here we are, celebrating 5 years of thievery, roly-poliness, love, and cuteness.

Ritz and Dante playing as 1.5 month-ish old kittens

Outdoor kittenhood

For those who don’t know, Ritz and Dante are littermates, born to a feral mom Jim named Moon. However, the boys drew the lucky card. By being born in April 2020, they were raised by the neighborhood. They got bottled water, canned and dry food, and treats from the day their mother let them out of the burrow she commandeered.

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Kittenses Anniversary

August 1, 2021

Rachel

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Kittenses Anniversary

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Today marks one year since we decided to keep the kittenses. Not much has changed since I posted Ritz’s and Dante’s stories. However, as I’ve been marking major anniversaries, I wanted to write something for them.

Still Kittens

Despite their nearly full-grown size, the boys are still kittens at heart. Their food meows are still higher-pitched and kitten-like. Their appetites, especially Ritz’s are still overactive. Ritz who’s still growing at a fairly steady rate, always thinks he’s starving, and believes everyone’s food is his. I know many cats do this, but imagine an average cat times 10.

The boys are also both roly-poly in the way kittens are. It’s so cute, and I hope they never grow out of it.

Ritz (left) and Dante watching out the window.

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Dante: Feral Kitten to “Evil Genius”

March 30, 2021

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Dante: Feral Kitten to “Evil Genius”

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A few posts back, I wrote about silver linings, mentioning our kittens. Those two are such sweethearts. Dante and Ritz have such distinct personalities, there’s never a dull moment around the house.

In the Beginning

Dante, especially, is a unique little fruitloop. He started life as an unnamed feral kitten with 3 brothers fed by half the neighborhood. Jim, however, was one of their two primary benefactors, and decided to name them Angus, an all-black kitty; Boo, a grey tabby; Ritz, our posh tuxedo boy; and Sparky, the fancy, multicolor tabby (later Dante).

From foreground to background: Boo, Ritz, Sparky/Dante (left), Angus, and Mama Moon.

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January 11, 2021

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2020’s Silver Linings

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Despite everything that has happened recently, and my last post, I still want to share this, because it holds true. Here’s hoping there are more, and larger silver linings to 2021.

So, 2020 is finally over, after an indeterminate number of years. There’s no denying that it was a terrible year for many. Or that it was a year unlike any ever seen. And, in some ways, it’s not over yet. We’re still dealing wtih most of the biggest issues of the past year.

However, among the plentiful negatives, for me at least, there were little nuggets of positive that keeps 2020 from being an unmentionable black mark in the past. I’d like to take a post to look back on the positive silver linings of 2020 as an uplifting start to 2021.

#1 & #2: It’s a Tie

My top two items tie for first: adopting our kittens and Bumbledore’s improvement.

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