I have 2 new foster kitties this week. Meet Charlie and Valentino. They’re amazingly fluffy and sweet. Valentino is the fluffier and braver of the two. He’ll probably get adopted so fast his paws won’t even touch the kennel floor. Admire the cute below:

In other news, I heard two totally WTF’tastic things today that I couldn’t wait for Wednesday to share.

1. WTF Album Drop
Remember Jimmy McMillan? He was running for NY state governor from the “rent is too damn high” party. (If you missed this side show during the electoral season, you can see what I’m talking about here.) Today Jimmy dropped an album, titled “The Rent is Too Damn High”, of course. He seems to be going for a sexy Marvin Gaye thing, but it comes off more like Weird Al trying to do sexy Marvin Gaye. If Weird Al were a black guy with some kind of handlebar/mutton chop facial hair situation. Best song: My Place. Jimmy croons “Let’s get it on. We can do it in the hall, In the kitchen. We can do it while I’m talking on the phone. We can do it while I’m moppin’ the floor.”

See for yourself:

2. “Winter Boyfriends”
I heard about this on the radio. Apparently ladies get “winter boyfriends” like one would winter boots or a winter coat. I didn’t know we could be kept seasonally. Fascinating. Any ladies care to comment? Do you get “winter boyfriends”?

P.S. In case you think I’m a crazy cat hoarder with 20 pets, rest assured, I’m not. My wife is too much of a neat freak to ever tolerate that kind of thing. We have 2 cats of our own. We foster for the SPCA, but only a few kitties at a time. So when I’m sharing new foster kitty pics, it means the foster kitties I blogged about in previous posts have all gone back to the SPCA and gone up for adoption.

Remember last Friday when I brought home these sweet foster kittens? I am happy to report that their colds are clearing up nicely, they’ve gained a little weight and they’re running around my house playing and sounding like a herd of elephants. Here are some new photos of the little guys, enjoy:

I picked up these three cute foster kittens yesterday, just in time for them to strut their stuff for Fuzzy Friday.

Wondering how I’m so lucky as to hang out with these 3 cuties for the next week and a half? I volunteer as a foster parent for my local SPCA. Fosters take in animals from shelters for a variety of reasons. Sometimes the animals are too young to be adopted. Sometimes the animal needs to be socialized with humans so it will adapt well once it’s adopted. Sometimes the animal is under the weather and needs some medicine and TLC (plus it’s best to keep them away from the other shelter critters so everyone doesn’t get sick). Sometimes the shelters get too crowded and they reach out to fosters so they have some place to put some of their animals until more get adopted. If you’d like to get involved, contact the local animal rescues in your area and see if they have a fostering program.

A few other ways to help the critters:

1. Next time you’re considering a pet, try to adopt a rescue animal. Shelters are a great way to meet a new pet. If you want a specific breed or age, check out PetFinder.com. They deal with shelters and breed specific rescues across the US and Canada. You can search for nearly any kind of pet on this website and they’ll help you find an animal that meets your preferences and needs rescuing. If you have friends or family looking for a new pet, let them know about these options too.

2. Volunteer at an animal rescue. Even if you can’t foster a pet, you can still donate your time to an animal charity. They need dog walkers, kitty cuddlers, fund raisers, data entry help, graphic designers, administrative help, event coordinators, just about everything you can imagine.

3. Donate your cash. Most animal rescue organizations have made donating money pretty easy. You can donate online, set up a recurring monthly donation, include an animal rescue in your will.

4. Visit the Animal Rescue Site daily. Your clicks help them raise funds for the animals.

You could also buy your next tee here at Ex-Boyfriend. We donate a portion of our revenue to animal rescues. We also do special events throughout the year where we donate even more. Last spring we donated 100% of our key chain sales revenue and raised over $1300 in about a month!

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I’ve been on vacation. Actually, I was away getting married to my long-time girlfriend. That is the reason for the lack of new art and updates here and on Facebook. Getting ready for your wedding can keep you busy, no matter how small you try to make it. Anyway, the exciting news is that we’re home now and we are fostering three adorable and mischievous kittens! This post is going to be very heavy on the pictures and videos because I had too many favorites to just pick one.

I also have a mischievous kitten story for you guys. The littlest of the kittens is a tiny calico girl named Laura. She weighs about 1.5 lbs (and that’s a generous estimate.) Saturday morning I went to check on our kittens and Laura was nowhere to be found. I totally freaked out. The kittens have been living in our upstairs bathroom, frolicking in our large empty bathtub and skittering about under the toilet. There aren’t many places for them to disappear, but this tiny Houdini had certainly managed to make herself scarce. I wondered if maybe she’d snuck out when I opened the door.

I woke up my wife and we called all our friends, enlisting them to tear apart our house for the better part of Independence Day. We worried our adult cats had gotten their paws on the missing kitten and eaten her. We worried the missing kitten had scurried into a vent somehow and was lurking inside our walls. We pulled appliances out from their corners, we left treats out hoping to entice her back. It seemed hopeless, and I dreaded fessing up to the SPCA that we’d lost one of their charges.

Around dinner time I went to check on the remaining kittens, and what did I see out of the corner of my eye? The missing kitten! I only caught a glimpse of the little fiend, but I definitely saw her. She’d been in the bathroom with her brothers all day. She disappeared as fast as she appeared, but I noticed that she had run behind our pedestal sink. I checked behind the sink and discovered there was a small cut-out in the porcelain where the pipes go in. I reached inside and felt something soft and fuzzy. The hideout was so small that only Laura could fit in there, and I was barely able to get my hand inside to pull her out. Luckily, I was able to get her by the scruff of her neck and pull her out. I duct taped the entrance to her hideout and returned her to her brothers. Hopefully that was the last of her disappearing tricks, but whoever adopts this kitten is definitely in for some trouble.

Anyway, trouble or not, the kittens are too adorable for words, so here are some pix and videos. Enjoy!