Elisabeth came over today (as she does most Sundays) to help socialize kittens. She broke out the wand toy today — Kittyenne Westwood scampered after it and the three boys found the thing absolutely terrifying. It's good to introduce that toy early because the wand toy is key to taking good graduation pictures (which are shown on the shelter's website when the kittens are available for adoption).
I'm a terrible photographer in general, but I've learned how to take passable kitten graduation photos. In case you, too, need to take such photos, here are my tips:
- Get all the food and eye goobers off their face first. Seriously, I don't even notice that sort of thing normally, but once immortalized in a picture, that's all I can see.
- Get as much clutter as possible out of the background. For me, that means take the photograph aiming at a plain wall.
- Take the picture on their level. Yes, you can crawl around on the floor with them. Or, you could make things easier on yourself and put them on your bed while you kneel on the floor.
- Take a bunch of pictures. Eventually one will be in focus and have the entire kitten in the frame.
- Lighting. Uh, I don't have any recommendations for this but good lighting is helpful. I never have good lighting.
Okay, so I put all those tips there and this photo uses none of them. But this is the brave and fierce Kittyenne Westwood, killer of wand toys. You can't even see the bald spots on her ear and her shoulder where her brothers have been suckling on her.
(Aren't her whiskers lovely? One of the boys has little stubs of whiskers because somebody else chewed them off! This litter, I swear!)
Kitten Watch 2024
Everyone is still on track for hitting their goal weight by the 19th.
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Have I reached my 1700 word goal today?
Not yet — I have another 700 words to write. But I hit my goal yesterday.
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