Meeting the kittens

Meet Peggy and Percy, our white tabby kittens.
On Boxing Day we collected two adorable balls of fluff from our local animal rescue centre. We'd met them 3 times before, going over to play with them and two other kittens that had been rescued and each time they became a little less wary of us. 

 

This little chap was being rehomed with another family but *loved* chasing the degus in the room, and frequently ran into the glass wall of the cage

Finally, we got them home, both of us supremely excited and in the 3 days they've gone from hiding in a corner to letting us stroke them, Percy even comes to a hand wiggling its fingers to be stroked.  Peggy is far more timid, but finally will now go across a room on her own without having to have Percy nearby.

Which brings us onto their naming:  Anton was holding onto the female kitten on the first visit and she leapt from his arms back into the kitten pen, as though she were winged - and thus she became Pegasus. Her brother, the kitten who looked after her became Perseus, the carer who rescues those in need - and his sister needed a lot of reassuring!And so we have Peggy and Percy, inseparable and extremely cute.

We hope that they'll come and sit with us soon and not jump every time we move - 3 days so far, they've become far less scared - they're so curious!

It helps that they're with each other each time they need some reassurance :)