Bright Eyed Merlin

[Siwsan]

[Ocelot II]

1. What a sweet tiny kitty! Squee!

[SheltieLover]

2. He is a little doll!

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Awwww!

[2naSalit]

4. He's so tiny!

He's fortunate that you found him and took him in. He looks like he's doing okay, will be good to get confirmation from a vet, though. I know you plan to have him seen soon.

He's really a baby baby.

[Siwsan]

6. I took him, first thing this morning

He was seen by a vet tech, AND by the vet. He is so tiny. that it was hard to take his temp, either through his ear or his butt, because the temp readers are just too big.

They agreed that, despite being so small, he's at the 3 week mark. His teeth are coming in, he's starting to self groom and quite often he pees and poops without assistance. Now I'm trying to introduce him to the litter box. Well, actually a makeshift one, using the top of a shoe box.

Barring anything with his health coming up, we'll go back in a couple of months. He will be big enough to start vaccinations and get neutered. I'll just stay hyper vigilant.

[2naSalit]

8. Well...

That's good news for now. Hopefully he'll grow into a big, beautiful panther.

Hard to imagine looking at him now but I see a panther in the making. Personality should be revealing itself in coming days.

[ShazzieB]

5. Ooh, a tiny baby panther!

He is fantabulously, over the top, cuteness overload adorable!

[Siwsan]

7. Gryff hopped up on my lap to give Merlin a good sniff. He's going to be a great big brother.

And, for the first time in a week, Arthur wandered in to the den, which is where I'm keeping Merlin. He and Madoc are still pretty undecided about this tiny intruder.

[onecaliberal]

9. SOOOOOOOO cute!!!

[wendyb-NC]

10. He's adorable

Very cute kitty baby.

[3catwoman3]

11. I've been hoping all day for a new picture of small but mighty Merlin.

What a cutie!

How much did he weigh today?

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Sill got those baby blues. Wouldn't it be something if it

Turns out that he's part Siamese and they stay blue? I know it wouldn't be deep blue like now and he couldn't get more handsome but I think it would be nice.

Thanks so much for sharing with us. ❤️

[3catwoman3]

13. We have had 5 blue-eyed cats, 3 past and 2 current, and there is something...

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...extra captivating, for me anyway, about blue-eyed cats. I keep falling short of finding a good way to explain it. The closest I can come is that it rather feels like there is a fellow human being in there looking out at you.

That probably sounds weird.

[littlemissmartypants]

14. That doesn't sound weird at all!! I had a stray that was blue eyed and definitely

Some mix of Siamese or maybe full, idk. She was a gift from some of my former students. They got her from the donation cage that existed outside the animal shelter.

They had a cage/crate set up in a place outside in a shelter and if they were closed anyone could leave cats in it. Well these guys took a kitten and brought it to me for my birthday.

She was a fantastic cat and lovely. I swear she could understand human language and thought that I understood cat. She had some really interesting quirks. She would meow with such a cadence that I swear she was taking to me.

She was so tiny when they brought her to me she couldn't really meow. So, I named her Mia. Get it?Anyway...We loved each other for 15 delightful years.

My very first pet was a cat I had when I was eight. Her name was Diamonds. She was killed by a car. I named her Diamonds because she had long hair and beautiful light gray eyes that sparkled like diamonds. That death broke my heart.

I miss having a cat. Maybe I'll have another one some day.

Thank you for your reply, 3catwoman3.



😸😸

You're the one on the left. ❤️

[Siwsan]

16. Carys' brother and sister are blue eyed Siamese (from their father's side)

Bruiser was a BIG and burly old Siamese tom cat, hence the name. He disappeared about a year ago.

[3catwoman3]

17. Our current blue-eyed kitties are a brother/sister pair of Siamese...

…mix. The sister is an extremely dark seal point, and her brother is a blue point. They have very subtle stripes.

Their mother is a tortie, with no stripes.

[niyad]

15. Itty bitty pretty kitty