{"id":21361,"date":"2024-02-12T00:10:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T05:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=21361"},"modified":"2024-02-10T08:38:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T13:38:58","slug":"celebrating-15-years-with-mia-peanut-rolz-and-zeuss-at-zee-zoeys-cat-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/celebrating-15-years-with-mia-peanut-rolz-and-zeuss-at-zee-zoeys-cat-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 15 Years with Mia, Peanut, Rolz, and Zeuss at Zee & Zoey’s Cat Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Happy 15th birthday to Mia, Peanut, Rolz, and Zeuss!<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s the \u201ckittens\u201d 15th birthday!<\/strong> That\u2019s a biggie! I\u2019m happy and excited for them, but it\u2019s also a bittersweet happiness, as this darn clock of life keeps moving ahead, seemingly at a quicker pace the older I get. I want it to slow down so I can spend more time with them, not less! Fifteen years ago, but it almost seems like yesterday… I will never forget the day they were born. Before that, Dan and I were on pins and needles, waiting for their birth. We could hardly wait to \u201cmeet\u201d our newest feline house members and we doted (some might say, obsessively so) on Mama Zoey day and night in anticipation of their arrival.<\/p>\n

We guesstimated Zoey’s due date as the second week of February so when I was awoken to a loud meowing at about 4:30 in the morning of February 12th, I took it in cautious stride. Zoey is always<\/strong> an extremely loud and vocal cat at any given moment she is not otherwise sleeping or napping, so I didn\u2019t know if she was \u201cjust talking\u201d or if something else was going on. She stopped her yowling, so I just assumed it was her being her usual vocal self, but when she came in an hour later her meow was much more insistent, and it was directed at me. She wanted me to get up and I could sense she needed me for something.<\/p>\n

It was pitch dark. I reached for my robe I had waiting at the foot of the bed, \u201cjust in case,\u201d and groped my way to the living room to see what was up. Zoey jumped up on the couch, so I sat down with her, which is what it seemed she wanted me to want me to do. I decided to lay down and she cradled into my belly while I held her close to me and petted her. She was purring like crazy and was very happy to have me with her.<\/p>\n

I then felt her little body contort a bit, but she was still purring, and she did not move or meow in any sort of pain or trauma. It was still dark, and I was not quite aware of what was going on. I then heard a very faint, odd noise, which I did not quite recognize. I was not sure what was happening, but my instinct told me she just had a kitten on top of me!<\/p>\n

I panicked and screamed for Dan. Because it was dark, I did not know where the kitten was or whether it was healthy or not, and I was worried it might fall on the floor. Not to mention, what if I had to aspirate? I screamed again for Dan until he finally came into the living room (we slept with a fan on, so he did not hear me right away). He turned the light on, and sure enough, she had given birth to a kitten on me! I had him get her birthing box and we very carefully moved the kitten and Zoey to the box and then brought them both into the bedroom closest, the place we had set up for her birthing, waiting for probably (and hopefully) more kittens.<\/p>\n

Probably ended up being four kittens in total: Mia, Peanut, Rolz, and Zeuss. We kept Mia, Peanut, and Rolz, and Zeuss went on to live with a family friend in Boston. Life quite frankly was never the same the day after they were born. Our house has been filled with all the love, joy, antics, and companionship that are part of living with cats. Except for Zeuss (who is exceedingly loved and spoiled) the kittens have been blessed to live their whole lives with their mama Zoey who still takes care of them to this day, as well as their beloved papa Zee who they were with until he passed on March 18, 2022.<\/p>\n

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Zoey, a couple of days after giving birth to her four precious kittens.<\/p><\/div>\n

They\u2019ve slowed down (slightly) but still have the same level of joy for snacks, eating, getting groomed, playing, and best of all, snuggling on the couch at night with Dan and me. I’ll admit, they can still be a handful, but I wouldn’t have it any other way!<\/p>\n

Happy birthday, babies. We love you so much and wish for many more years together! Thanks for stopping by, everyone, and enjoy some photos of the gang to follow.<\/p>\n

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2011 – Mama Zoey with Mia, Peanut, and Rolz.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mia, Peanut, and Rolz with their Papa, Zee, in 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n

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2010 – three little troublemakers!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Peanut, Mia, and Rolz – three spotted peas in a pod from 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n

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2010 – Mom, Dad, and the Kids.<\/p><\/div>\n

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2011 – Mom, Dad, and the Kids.<\/p><\/div>\n

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2012 – back when Jazz was still with us, as well as mom, dad, and the kids.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A full house back in 2014. Jazmine, Kizmet, Zee, Zoey, Mia, Peanut, and Rolz.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mia in recent days.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Peanut in recent days.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rolz in recent days.<\/p><\/div>\n

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If you enjoy the Zee\/Zoey gang and want to know how it all began, please consider reading the Chronicles of Zee & Zoey – A Journey of the Extraordinarily Ordinary<\/em>. It’s filled with hundreds of full-color photos and charming illustrations, as well as an inspirational story of the feline-human bond and the feline-feline bond. You can find it here on Amazon<\/a>. Or, if you would prefer an autographed copy, complete with a custom bookmark and a gift presentation sleeve as shown in the photo below, please contact me directly at info@zeezoey.com<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n

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The book that will forever immortalize the Zee\/Zoey family.\u00a0 The Chronicles of Zee & Zoey – A Journey of the Extraordinarily Ordinary.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the \u201ckittens\u201d 15th birthday! That\u2019s a biggie! I\u2019m happy and excited for them, but it\u2019s also a bittersweet happiness, as this darn clock of life keeps moving ahead, seemingly at a quicker pace the older I get. I want it to slow down so I can spend more time with them, not less! Fifteen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1378,3,1097,1099,1101],"tags":[1264,249,801,1253],"class_list":["post-21361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feline-human-bond","category-inspiration-healing","category-multi-cat-home","category-the-zee-zoey-cats-and-family","category-zeuss-catt","tag-cat-birthdays","tag-feline-human-bond","tag-multi-cat","tag-the-kittens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BD-15-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21361"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21381,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21361\/revisions\/21381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}