Leon, The Fostering Dog

20/05/2021

This morning Leon and his good buddy, Ferguson, are entertaining me while I drink my morning coffee. Ferguson is a kitten from a litter I fostered last winter and ended up keeping. ♥️

27/01/2021

“Whatcha lookin’ at doggie?” >^..^

23/01/2021

I have four new kittens! I picked them up
Last Sunday night. I have two sets of two. They are cousins (same dad, different mom) and about a month apart in age, but very similar in looks. They are classic tabbies, which are tabbies with marbled markings, and they are gorgeous. They have been seeing Leon through the French doors of their foster room for several days and this evening I brought him into their room. The most outgoing kitten, Sasha, was immediately ok with him. She approached him fearlessly and rubbed and cuddled up to him like he was her momma. The others are coming around pretty quickly as well. More to come!

09/11/2020

22/10/2020

Introducing Leon to the new kittens. It went well ♥️

20/10/2020

Last night I traveled half way across the city to get a litter of six 4-week-old kittens who’d lost their mother. Of course, when I got back home Leon met me at the door and knew immediately that he had some new fosters. Nothing gets by that big nose of his! The kittens settled in nicely, and appear to be healthy and fat and all have good appetites. This morning I sexed and named them; three males and three females. Just for fun I named them after former Presidents and First Ladies: Ellie, Abby, Jaqueline, Abe, George and Jefferson

26/09/2020

Leon with little Charlotte, who just had her spay surgery yesterday. She will only be with us a little longer ... no doubt there will be many adopters who will want her.

20/09/2020

It has been a while since I’ve posted but we’re still here rearing kittens! I still have 3 left of my litter of 5. There were two males who were much larger than the three remaining females, and they have already been neutered and excellent homes found! Both of them went to homes with dogs and cats. We are great at raising kittens who integrate well with existing pets. I always make sure it’s a home where the dog has a suitable disposition to accept the new cat. In this video we have that little sassy Pixel beatin’ up on Leon. He’s just as puzzled as I am as to why she was being so mean that day!

03/09/2020

I’m a small time zoo keeper, and I love my job

26/08/2020

24/08/2020

Animal magnetism, would you say? Left to right: Pixel, Charlotte and Eyebrow. Underneath: Leon

24/08/2020

This kitten, Pixel, prefers everyone else’s food to her own very primo kitten food 😯 Leon takes it all in stride like the good boy he is

23/08/2020

In addition to fostering kittens, Leon is a great help with landscaping activities, mostly in the companionship category.

22/08/2020

14/08/2020

I’ve had the new litter of kittens for a week now and they’ve proven themselves trustworthy (toilet-training-wise) to be allowed out of the fostering room into the kitchen area of the house. I get so much joy watching this little Pixel kitten sidle up to the dog. Actually, Pixel acts this way with my adult cats as well, and they are not nearly as accepting of her as the dog♥️

11/08/2020

This is one of my new litter of five foster kits. Her name is Eyebrow. She took to Leon within minutes. I’m thinking these kittens had some exposure to dogs before coming to me.

09/08/2020

Still not so sure about this dog, says lil Kitty

07/08/2020

One of the new foster kittens reallly loves Leon. The kitten’s name is Pixel and she immediately took to him. As you can see in this video, it looks as if she is searching for a ni**le or something! The second kitten’s name is Eyebrow.

07/08/2020

I decided to test the waters already tonight with Leon and the new kittens. I let the dog stick his head in the door when I was going in and out with food. There wasn’t much reaction from the kittens so I let him enter and told him to lie down. We got a mixed reaction from the kits; one hisser, 2 cautious and two that thinks he’s momma♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

07/08/2020

We took in a new litter of rescue kittens today ... there are five approximately 5-week-olds and they are very tame and lovey. They have heard Leon bark and didn’t seem phased by it. Leon is curious and spends lots of time looking at them through the windows. I will begin introducing them bit by bit over the next few days. ♥️

30/07/2020

Here are some pictures of a foster kitten I had in the fall of 2019. His name was Figaro ( now Jinx ) and he was a hissy little thing when I first got him. He turned out to be one of those cats who work their way into your heart so thoroughly. He had so much personality and was just a “fun” little guy. He and Leon were always messing with each other. His adopters came in looking for a kitten who’d been around dogs, so we introduced them to Figaro. Well, it didn’t take long before Figaro and his new dog brother became inseparable buddies ♥️

25/07/2020

Hmmmm your bottom smells very interesting little kitty

25/07/2020

Taken in 2018, when Leon was 1 year old.

23/07/2020

Here’s Leon hiding behind the sofa last February when the Chiefs won the Super Bowl and people were going crazy shooting off fireworks 💥

20/07/2020

Here’s Leon a couple months ago when the little black kittens were just getting to know him. Typically, if he is lying down they don’t get terribly defensive.

18/07/2020

Love this shot because it so clearly illustrates the difference in size between Leon and his kittens. This was taken January 2020. Kitten Annika less than 2 pounds, Leon 120.

17/07/2020

When not fostering kittens, Leon likes to go to the bank. Their treats are the bomb!

15/07/2020

Here’s Leon in 2017 at a couple months old with his first litter of foster kittens. See him jump back when the kitten swipes at him? He’s fast! In all the kitties he’s fostered over his lifetime not one kitty has ever drawn blood🩸

11/07/2020

All four of his little black kitties have been adopted and today Leon is kind of bored and worried about the thunder. He’s sticking close to his humans.
P.S. note the clawed up curtains? Kittens see curtain climbing as sort of a gymnastic event.....