Introducing Peanut

Welcome to the family, Peanut!

After Mr. Mittens died unexpectedly, we were eager to find another boy cat to add to the family.  Pumpkin was lonely and sad to no longer have a best buddy.  We have always had the best luck with cats in pairs.  Penny & Pearl are sisters.  We love to have two boy cats to balance out the mix.

The kids and I started kitten hunting for a boy kitten.  Our wish list looked like this:
Colorful

Unique markings

Long or short hair

Local find

and a great personality!

We started visiting all of our local shelters, Petsmart and humane societies.  The kids fell in love with every kitten we saw, but I kept reminding them of our list.  They'd fall in love with a tiger striped kitten, I saw a darling Calico girl, but we kept hunting until we found Buzz Lightyear!  His whole litter had Toy Story names.  

We scoped out the kittens in the kitten room and Buzz Lightyear caught our eye.  He was so handsome and friendly.  Fletcher held him first.  He purred instantly, snuggled into his neck and started giving Fletcher kisses.  He was very sweet and very outgoing.  The workers all said that they loved Buzz so much.  And he was ready to be adopted immediately.  We held and visited with other kittens, but we all agreed, that Buzz was the best.

Welcome to the family, Peanut.

Olive was determined to convince us that Peanut was the perfect name for our little guy.  Somehow we ended up with cats that all have P names, she loves the Peanuts cartoon and so we stuck with Peanut.

He purred down the road with us.

Kevin knew we were kitten shopping and his only request was a friendly cat.  We stopped by his office to introduce him to Peanut.  He approved.

He's been an easy addition to the family.  Sure tehre were some initial hissing and fighting, but now Pumpkin and Peanut play the days away.

He's so handsome.

We all love him.

Olive is very pleased with Peanut.

Peanut likes to sleep between my pillow and Kevin's at night.

He's very curious and seems to have made himself right at home in just a couple of weeks.

Pumpkin + Peanut.

Best buddies.

We hit the kitten jackpot with this guy.

The shelters in our area are overflowing with kittens right now!  If you have felt like adding a kitten to the family - now is the perfect time!  We have adopted from several different humane societies, adpoted a foster kitten, adopted through Petsmart and Craigslist.  The easiest option was to go through a humane society because the kitten will come home with all of their shots up to date, flea and deworming treatments as well as the option to microchip them.  Let me know if you have any kitten questions!