shadow was the first of the current batch; she was very young at the time (under a year), very sick, and had just given birth to a litter of 4. she was smart enough to look for food, and i felt so sorry for her, i took her in to get her healthy and some meat on her bones. it didn't take more than a week before she started to bring the kittens in, very carefully.

shadow: http://pics.livejournal.com/pleonastic/pic/00047dg9

bang!, timid(ity), and cal(liope) are 3 of that litter; the 4th (ninja) disappeared shortly after they all started to join us.

bang! http://pics.livejournal.com/pleonastic/pic/00021te8

cal: http://pics.livejournal.com/pleonastic/pic/0001070f

timid: http://pics.livejournal.com/pleonastic/pic/0003yc07 on the left
her face up close: http://pics.livejournal.com/pleonastic/pic/0003wrf4

at the time there were two tomcats hanging around the area, bacchus and a tabby, roundface. roundface was badly wounded one day, and disappeared afterwards, before i could catch him and take him to the vet. i figured that bacchus was the father of shadow's litter, because of their colouration. and one day he started to follow the others inside.

persis(tence) is the only one who's not related to the others. she was hanging around outside for a while, and then decided we were good people, and just came inside and started sleeping on the couch. i tried to gshoo her away for a while, but no go, she outlasted my determination. hence the name. :)

persis: http://pics.livejournal.com/pleonastic/pic/0003qc4x

the entire cat gallery is here: http://pics.livejournal.com/pleonastic/gallery/000041te