:) tagAught

Purring, however, is another matter. What I was thinking (and was discussing with Amanda after she wrote and said she’d linked one of my videos) was that it would be awesome to have some sort of a force-feedback thingie that could attach to the computer and allow someone (including someone who might be d/Deaf, etc.) to FEEL the purr. I suppose playing it through loud, well-made speakers might approximate this effect, but in any case, purring is one of the first ways kittens and their mothers communicate and does not depend on either eyesight or hearing as newborn kittens are both blind and deaf until their eyes/ears open. So their first week (or so) of life is comprised entirely of tactile/olfactory experiences, which of course includes the purr between them and their mother.

So yeah, tangent, but cats are easy to go on tangents about. Mew!

And the kittens in the video are indeed feral rescue kittens — I caught them in a local neighborhood when they were between 7 and 10 weeks old (got the first two at 7 weeks, took 3 weeks longer to catch the third!). They all had various medical issues (fleas, intestinal parasites, one of them was underweight at first, etc.) but those have been treated now and they’re all healthy and thriving and seem happy in their new home (my house has big huge windows in it, being a California ranch-style construction, which are splendid for bird and squirrel-watching!).

Oh and the kittens’ names are Brodie (tabby on left in video), Coraline (tabby on right), and Shadow (black kitty, snuggled behind the other two). They are siblings/littermates.