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the new cats have deigned to become intermittently perceivable so please meet Semicolon [a three-legged murder infant] and M. Dash Interrobang [as far as we can mostly tell, a pair of glowing eyes]

They come from different situations -- she's a tiny two-year-old baby who was bullied by other cats in her last home, and he's a wary ???four???-year-old stray who was brought in with a tail injury that led to amputation -- but they both have a history of getting on with other animals, so were housed together in the shelter and became friends! they're still spending quite a lot of time under the bed but are increasingly willing to venture out and explore so long as the giants stay reasonably still. For common use we are mostly calling them Mina and Monsieur Dash.

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rymenhild

Hello, kitties! Good names!

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genarti

Also they're soft and perfect. (I know you know this but I felt it important to state for the record.)

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aamcnamara

Vital information, thank you.

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sperrywink

Cuteness!

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profiterole_reads

They are adorable! <3

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sovay

the new cats have deigned to become intermittently perceivable so please meet Semicolon [a three-legged murder infant] and M. Dash Interrobang [as far as we can mostly tell, a pair of glowing eyes]

Mazel tov!

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pauraque

Cuties! The middle picture looks like a presence is about to emerge from your TV a la The Ring.

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affreca

Kitties! What a pair.

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rachelmanija

AWWWW. Perfectly named darlings.

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sixbeforelunch

Delightful named for delightful kitties! I love them.

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ranalore

They are beautiful, and remind me somewhat of Miss Cordelia and Jinnai, our own tuxedo girl and Void Mostly in the Form of Sable Cat.

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ceitfianna

They're so cute and great names.

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china_shop

Awww! Best wishes to you all! <3

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whimsyful

Aww so cute! And great names!

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shadaras

I love them immediately and adore their names! <3 I'm glad they're getting on well and slowly becoming visible shadows!

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umadoshi

Such darlings! I'm so glad they found each other and then found you.

Do you know what led to Mina being a tripod kitty?

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genarti

Congenital, so far as they can tell! The shelter vet who examined her found no sign of injury or scarring, so the theory is that she was just born with only half a left hind leg. She gets around pretty well, though obviously it limits her ability to e.g. jump high.

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umadoshi

My impression is most cats adjust well to having a leg missing even if it's not something they're born with, so it makes sense that she'd be doing well if she's never known anything else! I'm glad it wasn't from some traumatic experience she went through.

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hokuton_punch

Beautiful kitties!! ♥

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grrlpup

They are lovely!

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torachan

What sweeties!

I love the glowing eyes in front of the TV lol.

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landingtree

Aww! What good cats and what good cat names!

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ursula

Kitties! She really is tiny, wow.

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littlerhymes

So cute!!!

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kate_nepveu

Mina's whiskers!!! M. Dash as inky void! I'm so glad to see them.

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nishatalitha

Lovely kitties! And great names for them. I'm glad they are settling in well.

Separately, I picked up Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Cauldwell recently which I have now read and enjoyed. I had I picked it up based on one of your reviews, and wanted to say thank you. I was charmed by it, partly due to it some of it being set around Lincoln's Inn/Holborn/London near where I work, with the rest of it in Venice and partly due to the epistolary aspect of how it's put together. As well as the Bright Young Things repartee. Murder satisfactorily solved - I hadn't worked out the murderer, but am not very good at such things.