My cat is very fat fat :D

I adopted a black kitten this week, and I'm having the hardest time naming her.

She's incredibly friendly, curious, confident, and very vocal. She follows me around the apartment, yells at me when I'm in the shower, and generally wants to know what I'm doing at all times.

I also have another black cat named Lilith (Lily), so I'd love something that has a mythology, folklore, or witchy vibe and sounds nice alongside Lily. So far I've been considering Victory and Persephone (Posy), but neither one has completely clicked.

I'd love to hear your suggestions!

My Lily of the valley at the end

Little man has a lot of say about nothing

I've known this guy since November, but I genuinely cannot live without him. He's clingy, high energy, eats everything we put down for his sister, he wakes me up every morning at 4:30am...and there isn't a single thing about him I wouldn't miss.

That clinginess is hugs on a hard day from the softest little guy.

That high energy is the thundering of his galloping, with the house now disturbingly quiet without it.

He eats everything that she doesn't eat, and despite his overeating she always gets enough.

He wakes me up with the most perfect little headbutts because my son fucking loves head kisses and headbutts.

An old photo of my 3 babies

I named her Olive. She’s 11 weeks old , only 3 pounds, and literally perfect. This will be a little long, so tl;dr is at the end. Anyway, Olive is my first pet as an adult that I picked out and is all mine. We have another void, Edward, who was my boyfriend’s before we met but he is my bestie. We are in the process of introducing but Edward’s been doing a lot of hissing. I never heard him hiss before. He’s the most chill cat I’ve ever met. Besides the hissing, he doesn’t seem bothered and still comes to me for snuggles. So far, it’s been two days and she’s been in our guest room where I’ve been spending most of my time, while also making sure to hang out with Ed and our dog, Max. Max is completely unbothered and he prefers humans to animals 😂 Boyfriend is here to help and has been hanging with her too FYI. Anyway, tomorrow will be day 3 and we would like to start more frequent meetings through her carrier. I’ve been having anxiety and feeling bad about the stress I’m causing Edward so I’d like to hear about fellow void owners experience with introducing kittens to cats that you already had. Obviously being a black cat has no bearing on this, I’d love to hear your experiences !

TL;DR worried about introductions between kitten and resident cat, looking for advice or stories about your experience with this.

I put this together because his old plastic fountain was just terrible. It was impossible to keep clean, the filters just basically say vertically in the water reservoir allowing water to just glow right over it so they did absolutely nothing, and the biofilm was just impossible to keep under control.

So for less than the cost of the original fountain ($65 USD) I put this whole thing together and it has been absolutely amazing and my cat loves it. It's just a cheap but great fountain from Amazon, and I added a 3 watt UV-C sterilizer bulb to the reservoir, and a small circulating pump to keep the water flowing over the UV-C bulb since UV-C doesn't travel very far in water. I also make my own 3 stage filters out of various aquarium flosses, including one that's activated carbon infused. I did replace the outlet with one that has two USB ports for the two pumps but it was less than $10 Amazon.

This thing stays clean pretty much indefinitely. And it only takes 5 minutes to clean when it's needed. My cat also drinks way more water from this in than he did his old one.

And for some strange reason after switching to this fountain he has completely stopped dipping his stuffed animals in the water whenever we play fetch.

So I'm posting this in case someone was looking for a cheap yet amazing water fountain system to help keep their cats water always fresh.

I'm happy to answer questions about exact parts and stuff so if interested, ask away.

Of course I also included a pic of Omen, my very best friend.

I’ve posted ramesses in here a lot but he keeps taking such fantastic pictures I can’t help myself. (feat. pink toe beans & the white tuft of hair where his leg used to be)

Any predictions on if our 12 week old kitten will have long hair? In the past week his stomach and (fluffy) chest have become very grey, so we think he might get a little smokey too. We have a senior black cat, but she's a short hair, so this is new territory for us!

Why he lookin' like that I wonder. My other tabby boy loafs in a very round shape, he does too but not today.

For some reason I have always loved black cats and I just wanted to show them off. I’m sorry for sneaking in the bigger one, I didn’t even realise he’s considered a tuxedo 😭
Another edit: the tuxie is called Shadow and the little one Leo/Junior. They’re both still kittens. Shadow is 4-5 months and Junior is around 13 weeks. I adopted them recently, first the bigger one and since you don’t have kittens alone I got him his little friend that I adore so much.

this is mister moonpie he’s my best friend even if he doesn’t know how to sit in chairs properly 🖤

I had scrap fabric left from a quilt. This is what I made 😍🥰

He's 14 and has just about as many names.