The Staff...and our gofer!

I, Darius, overseer extraordinaire...

Well yes! Here we go! First, we know introductions are in order. And since Darius is chillin' on top of the kitchen cupboards again, we will engage our typist to do the honors here.

We are (or will be) a small, informative and chatty blog made up of five incredibly intelligent and beautiful felines.  Our family, for the time, being includes our provider of all things needed, Kitty-Dad and our typist who we lovingly and lickingly refer to as Kitty-Mom. 

Kitty-Mom works for free so there are times when typos will occur and that's okay. It is part of her charm. Or she will insert her own opinion which depending who she's angry at is less charming. This is frowned upon for that reason of course, but as noted, she works so cheap, and also gives out treats on such a regular basis, we tolerate! But we digress... We will go into more character depth later on but for this first entry we will just give names, ages and other pertinent information. So! From oldest to youngest we are:

Darius, Ginger Tabby - born March 28 2001
Trey, Chartreaux - born May 5, 2005
Milo, Russian Blue - born (approx) 2007
Murray, Blotched Tabby - born March 20, 2012
Dharma, Mackerel Tabby - born March 20, 2012      

Dharma gived me a boo boo nose!

Dharma's first din din after bottle weaning

Zen Milo

 Trey as part of the furnishings

                                                   Darius - official ginger windowsill kitty


Starting from youngest to oldest, Murray and Dharma are brother and sister, two of four tiny one day old rescues our Kitty-Mom adopted from a friend at age 7 weeks. We are now 8 months old and strong, healthy and rambunctious. 

Next is Milo, a kitty that was 4 hours from being killed by a shelter in New Jersey. Our Kitty-Mama spotted him on the internet when his name was Jake and called the shelter immediately to put a stay of execution on him until she and Kitty-Dad could drive to NJ and pick him up. We will explain the significance of the name Jake further along too, but it is also the reason Trey joined our family. 
Milo is (almost) Dharma's best friend if it weren't for Murray.

Trey...beautiful big fluffernutter Trey is the product of a broken home. Our Kitty-Mom spotted him on the internet as well and because he resembled our (now lost) brother Jake, she just had to give him a home! Jakey...we all called our first Jake #1 Jakey, was still with us back then and it was pretty hard to tell the two of them apart - in the dark it was impossible. The only way to tell who was who, was touch them - if you heard a purr, it was Jakey because Jakey could rattle windows with his purr while Trey is so much more demure. A whisper purr if you lay your ear to his side is all you hear.

Darius was a shelter kitty too and Kitty-Mama would never have found him if she hadn't been getting well in the hospital. The shelter brought around kits and dogs to visit the patients and tiny Darius was brought into the room and dropped in our Kitty-Mom's lap. She was not going to ever let him go back to that shelter and phoned our Kitty-Dad to go and get him at the shelter. That was June 2001.

We are a pretty lucky group of guys and little gal. Our Mama and Dad love us so much and have made sure we never want for anything. Ever!  Mama makes us toys at Xmas time and is always making time to play with us...she has a warm lap and lets us all pile on it if she's reading or watching tv.  She said she's going to do a page for each of us here so we can brag and crow all we want then...you are warned people!