Silver Patched Mackerel Tabby Female d.o.b. April 23rd, 2010 Dam: GC Gildethros Jazzy Minuette, Black Smoke Sire: GC Gildethros Champagne Sun, Shaded Cameo

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My daughter Jessica read chapters from Winnie The Pooh to Minue's kittens when they were little and decided to give them all names from the book.  We always spend a lot of time sitting on the floor in my bedroom with the little babies and they always love to snuggle up on our laps when they are all played out.  But these little ladies looked so smitten when Jessi read to them that it just seemed right to give them names of the characters in the book who the narrator is of course reading to.  So we have Piglet, Pooh, Tigger and Rabbit.  To be honest, I don't think Jessi even knows why she decided on any one name for any of the girls.  They certainly don't look like their namesakes (although Pooh is rather chubby and Tigger is of course the brown tabby girl).  They just are who they are as all great Turkish Angoras should be.

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Here's Pooh!

All of these first photos were taken at about six weeks old.  All four of these girls are so cute and chubby that you just want to scoop them up and hug them!  They are super social with one another and us - you hardly ever see any one of them alone and quite often you'll find three or even all four of them chasing one another's tails and wrestling as they get wound up with the two older silver boys.  As soon as one kitten finds something that moves, others descend and they feed off of one another as they figure out the best use for their new toy.  They are all so cute as they swagger and pounce around.  Pooh is on the left (below) and Piglet is on the right.

Although both Pooh and Piglet are silver patched mackerel tabbies, their colors look very different.  Piglet has a lot more cameo patching in her coat than Pooh does with a peachy colored blaze on her nose to make it very easy to know who is who when you look them in the face.  Piglet is in the foreground in the two photos below so you can see her cameo (red silver) patches glowing where Pooh really doesn't have any large patches.  As their colors are maturing, Pooh has started to get a more uniform look with far less contrast tabbying visible between the black bars and the silver background.  It's impossible to know how light/bright either one will be as their silver continues to develop, but they are both gorgeous kittens and a total joy to have bouncing around.

All of the photos above were taken at about six weeks old and those below on July 3rd and 4th when Pooh (and her sisters) were about two and a half months.

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