Naming
Dear Mom,
I know where the kittens came from!!! They are feral!
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
They certainly are refugees from a feral cat colony. The whole litter and their mom were all trapped together.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
Maybe that’s why Elsa is so wary.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
That wariness might just be her personality. They don’t act like ferals. I think that’s because they had such an awesome foster mom.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
I had a foster mom!
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
You all did. You were all rescues.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
And we all had special rescue names!
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
Yes! Your rescue group called you Foxy. And Winston was Squeak, Charlie was NumNum and Elsa was Cupcake. I renamed all of you.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
You have lots of names for us!!! You call all of us Honey Pie. Do you think about eating us?
XOXO Poppy
Good lord Poppy,
Of course not!!!
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
Honey Pie is a food! And Cupcake and NumNum, those are also food names. We’re not food!!!!!!!!
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
Don’t worry, no one wants to eat any of you. And you all have other names that are NOT food.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
Winston was called Squeak. That sure doesn’t fit him now.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
That was when he was a tiny fluff ball of a kitten. Then we started calling him The Kid.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
Charlie is The Kid now!!!
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
He sure is. Winston isn’t The Kid anymore.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
He has other names now. Sometimes you call him The Thug.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
Well, yes, he’s kinda earned that.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
You also call Winston your Handsome Dude.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
He is that!
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
So. He’s The Handsome Dude. He’s The Thug. And you also call him your Puma.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
That’s right! He’s our household-sized Puma, slinking around the place.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
In fact you used to call him Slinky sometimes. Slinky and Chonky. Puffin was Chonky.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
I guess we’ve gotten carried away with names.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
What about me?
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
You are so sweet with the cats, I think we could call you The Nanny.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
I like to lick them! And follow them around!
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
You even have a special voice for cats. I call it your Cat Voice. Though when the kittens first got here the Cat Voice was a bit overwhelming. They didn’t know what it meant.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
Now they know it’s me!
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
They do. They don’t worry about you at all. Charlie even wrestles with you.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
Charlie is very cool. If Winston is the Dude, then Charlie is the Dudelet.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
Because he’s a little dude – how clever of you!!!
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
What about Elsa? She needs a name!!!
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
How about Princess?
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
That fits her! Though she can be a scary screamer when she wrestles with Charlie. And she hisses bad language.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
She does have some colorful language.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mom,
We can call her The Mouth.
XOXO Poppy
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