Update is literally "we have a kitten and she's been very good for Joe and also she's soft" but I have to go feed the mammals and you'll have to wait a hot second for pictures.

Belly pic teaser :V

aww spots

OH NO TOO CUTE!

She was seven weeks old when she came home with us (orphaned bottle baby), she's now about twelve.

TUMMY

Her name is Shura, she loves POMPOMS and JOE and VIDEO GAMES and FIGHTING MY HANDS. I taught her how to play fetch.

she's got such good beans

(I've been following Raile's Kitty Adventures on the tweets)

Not kidding about the video games: here she is watching me play Donkey Kong 64.

OOPS one of those is... not the image I wanted lmfao. That's her getting along with Maya, which is a literal miracle.

she's so smol

Maya not only tolerates the baby, she lets the baby hit her in the face repeatedly? She has been caught actually playing with the baby.

Maya hates other cats.

But.... uh, we're not sure she recognised the wobbly alien in our house as a cat........ so she got a bit more used to Shura before Shura turned into a small, extremely feisty cat somehow, and now Maya's like "I.... g....uess??? I... GUESS."

fluff!!!

SHE'S SO SOFT I actually had no idea baby kittens were so soft, you guys.

That they are.

omg had you never experienced... the baby soft

NO......... I keep wanting to put her right on my face

BUT summary: things are now stable (if still a bit rough) and losing Peppers still sucks a lot but Baby the Bean Machine is bringing a lot of happiness with her and we love her very much.

AND THAT'S THE NEWS FROM LAKE WOBEGON, WHERE ALL THE WOMEN ARE STRONG, ALL THE RATS ARE GOOD LOOKING, AND ALL THE CHILDREN ARE ABOVE AVERAGE.

It's good news that's welcome.

honestly, smush your face into that kitty

they tolerate face smushing better at that age anyway

...no......

Our adults let us, but she's MUCH too full of the need to FIGHT EVERYTHING right now.

i've had the opposite experience tbh. kittens permit sqush, adults are like "DAAAAAAD stop"

lmao I think my constant bothering of my cats as kittens helped make the more amiable to squishing later in life

SO DO IT....

I smooched her belly SO MUCH and in return she took my glasses off my face and poked me in the eye with them

Sounds like a cat.

belly spots!!!

SHE HAS SECRET ORANGE BELLY SPOTS AND I LOVE THEM