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One of my neighbors has some kittens that one of the neighborhood cats had. (The one female that nobody has been able to trap in order to get her spayed.) And every day I come ever closer to adopting the black kitten. Every time I walk by with Binky this black kitten (who I have been calling Ninja...it's always a bad sign when I name something) comes running out at Binky and boxes him and it's so cute I want to die each and every time it happens. (The kittens are well on their way to cathood at this point - probably somewhere between 12-16 weeks.) Ninja isn't the cutest of the lot (there are a couple of torbies that are super cute) but he's just so ROTTEN and funny. And one of my most favorite things in the whole wide world is rotten troublemaker black kittens.
Ninja also boxes my hands. It's super cute. He comes running out and then sits on his ass and reaches up and boxes with his front paws.
I was in the bodega off my corner (as opposed to the bodega on my corner, where I shop often) picking up some orange juice and a newspaper. As I approached the counter, the large grey cat who had been apparently sleeping stood on his hind legs just as I passed and batted at the back of my leg three times, then, still on his hind legs, hopped a few steps before inchworming back to his post by the 50¢ cookies.
"He does that all the time," the counterman said. "Doesn't mean anything."
Awesome cute, Cici! I love kittens. My boy cat was 5 weeks old when we adopted him with mites, fleas, worms, and a slightly feral sensibility. 10-years later and he bites me when I give him medicine, sticks his whiskers up my nose while I try to sleep, sleeps on my feet during the winter, gives me cute kitty kisses on my cheeks, and greets me everyday when I come home. If it wasn't for my rule of one pet per lap, we'd likely have a menagerie.