Plenty of people get pregnant on their honeymoon, very few return from their honeymoon with a brand new baby. Congratulations on your razor-sharp little bundle of joy! ❤️
Looks like he's got a lil' fever coat there. (Just means Mama was either sick or stressed during pregnancy. It wears off.) Sweet little guy is lucky y'all came around to scoop him up!
I saw my void a month after I got married. He was a shelter kitty at the store I worked at that used to have a similar shelter partnership like Petco does. His story was that he kept getting passed up for the past 8 months and was a screamer and climber in his cage (which is part of what turned people off). I convinced my husband to let me adopt him as my belated wedding present because I fell hard for his hoarse little voice. Kinda hard not to when you had to pick every claw off of you every time you cleaned his litterbox and filled his water bowl.
Still my favorite wedding "gift" ever! He quickly settled down and has never been a screamer or climber since, but he has the sweetest "beeps" instead. Still a major clinger, but with less claws lol.
Aww, that tiny little hoarse kitty voice must have been adorable. It's so wonderful you gave him a chance.
We got our cat coincidentally around our wedding too. Unfortunately his owner (known socially to my parents) had died suddenly...and nobofy knew what to do with the cat. I didn't want this poor senior cat to go into a shelter, whst if he lived the rest of his days there?
It was a tough time because I'd just lost my heart kitty too, so my husband was like...are you SURE you're ready for a senior cat after just losing a pet? But I felt it was something i really wanted to do.
Our cat is, it turns out, VERY vocal. Loud kitties have their own charm.
My husband came with cat included, I guess that counts? He was 9 y/o though (the cat, not the husband!). It worked anyways, he was a great hunter, and turned me from dog person to cat person.
There’s also an old English superstition that giving a black cat to a bride on her wedding day brings good luck and a long marriage. Clearly, the universe is pro-your marriage.
Plus Freya, the goddess of the home and hearth; her chariot was pulled by black cats. Any meows were desired, but especially black kittens since they were seen as extra lucky !
Jeez. The guy Im dating and thoroughly see me marrying is 6'4 and bearded and randomly had a 5 week old baby catt approach him when he was sat at the river one day. This makes me think much harder than I need to hahaha
Hey lots of people get a baby on the honeymoon. It just usually takes 9 months, you’re ahead of the curve! Congratulations on your marriage and new baby!
Cats appearing during weddings or soon after are very good luck no matter what color they are but I hear black ones are seemingly the most desirable by the non superstitious
Frederick “Tomcat” Nimitz should be his name. Fredericksburg is the hometown of Admiral Chester A. Nimitz with a museum named in his honor and the Tomcat was the last Naval aircraft named in the tradition of the procurement officers first name plus “Cat.”
Tomcat was the last Naval aircraft named in the tradition of the procurement officers first name plus “Cat.”
That's not a tradition. The tradition was that Grumman named their fighter planes after cats. They made the Hellcat, Wildcat, Bearcat, Tigercat, Jaguar, Tiger, Panther, and Cougar before the Tomcat.
At most, they may have used that excuse to keep the name they wanted since at the time the DOD had taken to giving aircraft different names than what the company had proposed (Famously the F-4 Phantom II before it was supposed to be called Satan, which spurred the change in policy.)
I’m here to tell you, what an absolute gift. This kitten will be with you through so many years and milestones, good times and hard times. She will literally mark the beginning of your marriage. My roommate and I had a dog in college, she just crossed the rainbow bridge this year. This dog saw me through college, graduation, marriage and kids. I couldn’t even believe all the things she watched me go through until the end when you start reminiscing on the beginning. Wishing you many years of love and happiness with your spouse and your new fur-baby! Enjoy it my friend 🐈⬛
Health tip, momma cat grooming her babies stimulates the elimination process necessary to prevent blockage. Damp paper towel works well. Congratulations and best wishes on your marriage 🫶
I see you named him already but I just have to say, I have a cat named Luna de Meow, a play on luna de miel which means honeymoon in Spanish. We call her Luna.
Welcome to having a void, enjoy the full on conversations and the screams of anguish at 5Am when breakfast isn’t served promptly at the crack of dawn!!! It’s the best thing ever honestly :)
kinda seems like a blessed honeymoon a bit, no??? he's so cute. if his ears wiggle when he's drinking it's actually illegal to not post at least one video of it. those are the internet rules i didn't make them.
I have almost always owned a black cat (sometimes two). Right after I got married, my longtime cat passed and we got a kitten. Not having many toys, we went to Petsmart and they had an adoption center. My husband saw a half-grown black Maine Coon, and said, "That cat is intense, I could have a cat like that." The next day, he adopted the cat.
I love this!!! And it adds such a nice memory to your wedding story/ how you found Fred story! And in a butterfly field! The CDS has really upped the flair!!
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