My Two New Kittens!

And here they are - my two latest acquisitions, both of which are sure to chase away the blues - my two new kittens! 😃 😺 😺 

This is my male kitten Chico . . .

. . . and this is my female kitten Claudia!

Aren't they adorable?

I adopted them from a fostering service that originally named them after two 1980s pop singers - and I hated living through the 1980s, and the music was usually the worst part of it. So I had to rename them the second I got them.

I had planned to adopt a kitten, knowing that a kitten who was not yet a full-grown cat would last longer.  I had not planned to adopt two kittens, but the fostering service insisted that I adopt both, as they were siblings from the same litter and needed each other's company.  How could I say no? 😊 

I named Chico for Chico Marx . . .

. . . although his name was supposed to be pronounced "Chick-o," not "Cheek-o," but everyone called him "Cheek-o" anyway because of the spelling of his nickname and his assumed Italian accent.  (Leonard Marx was nicknamed "Chick-o" for being a womanizer.)

I sort of also named my little boy kitten after this Chico - a Volkswagen concept city car from 1992 that was never put into production. 

And how did I name my little girl kitten Claudia?

I had trouble coming up with a name for a female cat, but then I met a woman I was already friends with on social media but had never met in person.  She's a model/actress turned artist who contributed prints to an art show in Connecticut.  I went up there and surprised her, and she was so nice and sweet to me and thanked me for coming.  On the way home, I had my name for a female cat.

The woman is former model/actress and present-day print artist Claudia Cron.

And how are the kittens?  They're playful, cute, rambunctious, endearing, cuddly - in short, everything kittens are supposed to be. 

I'm going to have a wonderful time with these two kitties. 💝