This just in! The “Up” Kitten

by Meg on June 15, 2009

Now, in digital 3-D…

THIS KITTAYN! [Floats by on balloon strings]

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Another brillo submishe from Nicole G. friend of the Empty Cage Collective.

{ 78 comments }

1 Beth 06.15.09 at 9:42 pm

I’m saaaailing away

2 Trixie 06.15.09 at 9:42 pm

He does look like he’s struggling to stay grounded!

3 kibblenibble 06.15.09 at 9:52 pm

Lookit! A creamsicle kitteh just floated past the window! *reaches out to cradle kitteh and gently removes balloons*

4 jenjen 06.15.09 at 9:58 pm

I beewieeeve I can fwy…. I bewieeve I can touch the sky…

5 gatita bonita 06.15.09 at 10:03 pm

“Up, up and away in my beautiful balloon…” Does any one remember which group is famous for that song? I believe the group consisted of Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, jr.

6 C.S.O. 06.15.09 at 10:07 pm

This little guy is up for adoption in Bushwick, NY! Post here if you live in NY and are interested! See the hovertext for more info.

7 k 06.15.09 at 10:08 pm

what a cute-heart! and I LOVE that you’re posting adoption info for this little friend.

8 Niki 06.15.09 at 10:16 pm

@gatita bonita: The Carpenters. I’ll never forget that one–I couldn’t get it out of my head after one of my more intense surgeries. It was a pretty psychedelic week that week… ;)

9 misscrisp 06.15.09 at 10:27 pm

All the cute boys live in Bushwick.

10 Juniper Jupiter 06.15.09 at 10:35 pm

Oh, I’ll believe this pic…

WHEN CATS FLY!!

***goes to look out window***

Don’t see that kitteh yet!!! :D

11 Juniper Jupiter 06.15.09 at 10:36 pm

@gatita bonita and Niki…

It’s the 5th Dimension. Not the Carpenters. :P

My little sister was a FREAK aboot who sang what and I used to quiz her on stuff like this. She aced it every time.

12 Flavia A. 06.15.09 at 11:12 pm

Aw… I hope he gets adopted soon!
If I wasn’t in another country… C’mon people, adopt him!

13 hon glad 06.15.09 at 11:15 pm

Kitty’s escape plan fails to get off the ground.

14 Subhangi 06.15.09 at 11:32 pm

LOL

15 Susan 06.15.09 at 11:34 pm

Oh oh oh! :O
I love me some creamsicle kitti.

16 jackie31337 06.16.09 at 1:05 am

Oh, I would love to adopt this little guy! Unfortunately there’s the small matter of the Atlantic Ocean between us. Somebody take this “total love monkey” (see hovertext) home and snorgle him!

17 kittyadventures 06.16.09 at 2:27 am

There is no place like home There is no place like home Kitty clicks hels together three times and flies to forever home

18 binky-mama 06.16.09 at 3:09 am

Kittayn looks all sad! Like “It not workingks!”

19 Lestatcat 06.16.09 at 4:06 am

If I could bring this cute lil kitty across the Pacific….if those teeny balloons could only carry him here.

20 kat 06.16.09 at 4:19 am

awww this reminded me immediately of wheely willy (the poor little chihuahua couldn’t use his back legs so one of the things his owner tried was tying balloons to his back – but now he has a wheelchair :) and super cute outfits: http://www.wheelywilly.com/

21 kat 06.16.09 at 4:22 am

oh PS – if you go to the “children only” section you can “dress” willy up in his outfits – you see pics of the different outfits

22 darkshines 06.16.09 at 4:24 am

Aw, if you were in the UK, little vanilla kitteh, you could come live with me!

23 Birdcage 06.16.09 at 4:52 am

I wish that I could fly; into the sky
So very high; just like a dragonfly

I’d fly above the trees; over the seas in all degrees!
To anywhere I please!

Oh I want to get away!!!! I want to fffffllllllllyyyyyy away!
Yeah yeah yeah.

24 T.U.M. 06.16.09 at 5:20 am

Awwww, he looks just like my Mom’s kitty (except he is the furthest thing from a total love monkey there is).

@kat – I knew people in the CH cat community who trained their CH kittens to walk by slinging a nylon stocking under kitteh’s belleh to hold him up while he got his legs going.

25 Amy 06.16.09 at 5:22 am

Add one more balloon and I do believe that this little kitty will be airborne! Sail my way, little creamsicle, and I will see that you land safely in my arms!

26 Lerrinus 06.16.09 at 5:38 am

Fly me to the moon,
Let me mew among the stars,
I wanna see what spring is like,
On Jupiter and Mars…!

27 kk3 06.16.09 at 5:47 am

JenJen….that cracked me up! Loved it! AND love the little kitten!

28 blair 06.16.09 at 5:58 am

clawtastic!

29 Shaz 06.16.09 at 6:03 am

Is this how they’re delivering kittens to people these days? He looks a little stripy to me, around the paws. CUTE.

30 HunnyBunny 06.16.09 at 6:07 am

Look at him’s little timid-tail!!

It’s timid!!!

31 Kathleen 06.16.09 at 6:25 am

I’m only in the midwest – I’ll love ‘im and smoosh ‘im and call ‘im George if we can somehow get him here (or me there & back)!

32 Kar 06.16.09 at 6:27 am

Awww. “His spirits remain high.”

33 Dana D 06.16.09 at 7:04 am

OMG. Today’s posts are almost too cute…

34 Theresa 06.16.09 at 7:07 am

Fennec fox earses!

35 5^^now8ing 06.16.09 at 7:13 am

@ kittyadventures: Auntie Em and Uncle Henry and I are eagerly awaiting his arrival in Kansas! (I’ll have to change my CO name, but it’ll be worth it.) (Oh, and my actual name, too, as hubby will send me & cat #6 packing.) (Not really. He’s a pushover.)

36 BeckyMonster 06.16.09 at 7:36 am

Love the little creamsiclette! Alas, I live in Atlanta. At least I’m on the right coast right? That’s gotta count for something!

37 Katrina 06.16.09 at 8:01 am

That is the cutest little balloon weight I’ve ever seen, is it a party favor, too?

38 Lillith 06.16.09 at 8:42 am

If I didn’t have a grumpy old kitty and and very active toddler I’d be on the subway to pick him up now!

39 kibblenibble 06.16.09 at 8:49 am

Please give us an update if this bebeh gets a home….Please?

40 KittyAdventures 06.16.09 at 8:51 am

LOL @5Now8 I am married to a push over too.

when we got our tuffy kitten and iwas trying to train him to sleep in his basket in the kitchen instead of our bed.. Hubby whined until I went and brought the kitten into bed with us. Cracked me up….. Mr I am tough and do not like cats..yeah right!

41 Mr M 06.16.09 at 9:09 am

Aww, I think he wants to go to South America!

42 Nancy 06.16.09 at 9:51 am

KittehDeckchair. I bet he’d rather go camping.

43 Darsa 06.16.09 at 10:37 am

Want want want!!! I want to be closer to him so I can HAVE HIM!!!! I have always wanted an orange kitteh, to match my husband’s hair. <3

44 chanpon 06.16.09 at 10:42 am

::eeee:: ::eeeeeeeee:: ::eee..eeeee.ee::

[that's the sound of my sharpie as I scrawl my address on the balloons]

45 n 06.16.09 at 11:21 am

ADoooooooooooRIBLE

46 fish eye no miko 06.16.09 at 11:30 am

“Oh, well, at least this is better than what happened after he watched _Saw_…”

47 brinnann 06.16.09 at 11:31 am

:lol: @ Chanpon! I can totally hear that sound in my head, too.

48 Caecilia42 06.16.09 at 11:35 am

I love Empty Cages Collective! I got a kitten from them last fall, whom they found in trash dump in Queens. He’s profiled on their website (his name is Quark).

49 berthaservant 06.16.09 at 11:53 am

Ooooh, I wish I were in that area, this kitteh would tewtally be mine.

(btw folks, I haven’t been able to post for a few days because I’ve been busy finishing my dissertation and graduating and getting my doctorate…I’m still looking at the posts just don’t always have time to post on every one!)

50 cheshirekittehkat 06.16.09 at 11:56 am

In my mind’s eye, my visualization of a perfect world: noes abanduned kittehs, all pets are luuved and cherished, war haz fallen into disuse, people treasure one anuvver and live in peece, the world haz become green agen……… then I awaken from my day-dreem reverie and heer awl the awful news awn TV…… my dreem bubble pops……. :shock: ……. I reluctantly go back to reel-tyme….. :cry:

51 cheryl 06.16.09 at 12:07 pm

a brooklyn kitty!!

52 Decca 06.16.09 at 12:15 pm

Congratulations to Dr. Berthaservant. You deserve a huge basket of marmies.

53 Katrina 06.16.09 at 1:19 pm

YAY!!!! Dr. Berthaservant. What did Bertha say when you came home with the paperwork? Serious congratulations to you and Bertha on this milestone! YAY!!!! Yes, Decca, a HUGE bucket o’ Marms! A Very Large Array of Marmies! YAY!!!!

54 Von Zeppelin 06.16.09 at 1:33 pm

Doktor Berthaservant–Hosannas and hoorays to you!! (Sounds of champagne corks popping, 500-piece kazoo orchestra playing “Gaudeamus Igitur,” droning commencement speaker).
These doctorates coming so fast on CO make me wish I was in graduate school again. (Looks at yellowing ancient diploma on wall, remembers years of tedium combined with panic)

Or maybe not. It’s best left to those with more stamina and brain cells than me. Now I will tie on a few balloons, float off, and go look for that kitten.

55 berthaservant 06.16.09 at 2:09 pm

To be completely truthful, I don’t actually have the papers yet as there is some paperwork yet to be taken care of, but the thanks are most welcome! I will amend my name when I am legally allowed to do so!

56 berthaservant 06.16.09 at 2:09 pm

And Bertha has been quite snorgly lately, so I think she’s proud, too.

57 Patricia 06.16.09 at 2:46 pm

Looks like he wants to do a late audition for ‘Up’.

58 Argyle Donkeypants 06.16.09 at 2:52 pm

“Tower, this is N-five-niner-niner. We have finished preflight checks and are requesting permission to launch en route to Sunbeam, with a maximum anticipated altitude of 4.5 feet AGL. We have checked our transponder and visited the litter box.”
“Roger, Roger.”
“Stand by for clearance, Clarence.”
“What’s our vector, Victor?”

59 fish eye no miko 06.16.09 at 3:30 pm

@Argyle Donkeypants: Surely you can’t be serious…?

60 danielie 06.16.09 at 4:04 pm

Cute kitty looks like he’s a little afraid of the distance down. You can do it, kitty! Fly!

61 WendyPinNJ 06.16.09 at 4:07 pm

Poor kitty all like, “why you do dis to me? Gimme a break! Dis not funny, you big fat meany. Now my toesies barely touch the floor, and that makes me NERVOUS!”

62 WendyPinNJ 06.16.09 at 4:14 pm

Awww. Just notice little floaty kitty needs a home. Shouldn’t tease me like that. It’s just a hop, skip and a jump over a couple of rivers from Joisey to Brooklyn. And I do love me some marmies.

Unfortunately, my 13-year-old blind persian kitty wouldn’t like to live out the last of his days being pestered by fiesty young-un!

Sending happy adoption thought across those rivers for this sweet baby. I’m sure he’ll find a home in no time!

63 Liz 06.16.09 at 5:06 pm

Aww, I wish I could take him home with me to SI! But unfortunately I don’t have any room…I hope he gets adopted by loving people! :)

64 Katrina 06.16.09 at 5:52 pm

Berthaservant-Puuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs of congratulations and felicitations from all of your friends on CO. (Yes, I speak/purr for everyone.)

65 pyrit 06.16.09 at 7:01 pm

Huzzah! Berthaservant!

66 pyrit 06.16.09 at 7:04 pm

And don’t call me Shirley!

67 Froggy 06.16.09 at 7:10 pm

It’s the birthday kitten!

68 Teresa 06.16.09 at 8:30 pm

I loved listening to that song by “The Fifth Dimension” :) It is on “YouTube” if anyone wants to listen to it and watch the band preform :) Congratulations on your doctorate, Dr. Berthaservant :) As for that cute little kitty, hurry and grab the sweetie before those balloons carry the kitten away :) I would do the rescueing if I knew where that kitty was :)

69 puddlepeppers 06.16.09 at 9:02 pm

Berthaservant…Congratulations to you and Bertha for these snorgle-worthy
achievements! So very proud of you.

70 puddlepeppers 06.16.09 at 9:11 pm

cheshirekittehkat…thank you for sharing your vision of all that could be, of all
that needs to be, of all that reminds us to care and keep on trying.

71 online virtual world for kids 06.17.09 at 3:55 am

This is super cute. Should add more balloons and make it float a little. XD It would be super cute! =D

72 Rach N 06.17.09 at 5:08 am

Aaww Bless his little cotton socks. Such a pity I have an ocean between us, otherwise he’d be coming home with me to meet my two. Please update us on his home situation!!

And Congrats to BerthaServant!!! :D

73 Yodie 06.17.09 at 8:55 am

@ 45 chanpon

LOL thats the bestest!!

74 Donnae 06.17.09 at 12:30 pm

I wish he’d come floating by my window–he looks like he needs a good cuggle!

75 Robert 06.17.09 at 2:08 pm

SQRL!

…wait, that’s next post.

76 Carlisa 06.18.09 at 8:24 am

See Puff go up….Up, PUFF,..UP!

77 Cyndee 06.19.09 at 1:17 am

thats really cute!!!

78 Sam 06.24.09 at 7:23 pm

THAT IS SOO MEAN!

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