Tumbleweed needs everyone to know that I am his most cruel and heartless mother for decreasing the amount of food he gets due to him gaining a third again his body weight over the last year no that is not all fur Tumbleweed you are shaped like a pregnant sheep!
He has spent much of the day stomping from room to room while yelling his immense displeasure.
Now I plum reckon ya’ll are gettin’ real sick of this 🎩 character carryin’ on an’ on, so ‘fortunately I only got myself one more YeeyeeClan cat to introduce ‘fore I turn things over to my rootin’ tootin’ cowgirls, and ‘course since you already been ‘quainted with the leader and the deputy, I’m here to give a holler to YeeyeeClan’s trusty medicine cat, Tumbleweed.
Now Tumbleweed is as friendly as anythin’ but he’s a no-nonsense sorta feller when it comes to his work. See, YeeyeeClans prairies can be right dangerous, with all them cows and horses and crop monsters and ironmouths and snakes and all manner of varmints and critters, so Tumbleweed ain’t got time to be dallyin’ with every little scrape an’ splinter, and he’ll give ya the what fer if you come to him a-whinin’ and a-hollerin’ about some nonsense. He ain’t bothered by gettin’ his paws dirty, diggin’ out rusty nails and closin’ up gashes and hell, the feller is even gnawed a Warrior’s tail clean off on account of it gettin’ stepped on. Even his own tail’s seen better days—it ain’t got much hair on it no more and it bends in all sort of unsightly places, but y’see, a grown cowpoke ‘round here losin’ his tail will give his clanmates quite the fodder for some laughin’, so Tumbleweed ain’t partin’ with his tail no time soon. He ain't partin' with his apprentice, Wheatgrass, neither, and I'd say she's rightly the gentle side this paws-on country doc needs
He’s been through SO MUCH in his first year of life (losing his eye and half his tail to infection from being in the hood of a car before he was rescued, then FIP and getting a painful shot every day for 3 months)
But dammit he’s a survivor!
And now he’s the silliest little fluff with a heart full of love
Congratulations and Happy First Birthday, Tumbleweed my one eyed miracle kitten!
Another postcard painting, this time a pet portrait of Tumbleweed! This handsome lad is @fractiousrvt‘s boy, who is no longer a kitten but just as cute. I couldn’t resist doing a painting of him from back when he was a wee fluffball.
[Image description: my hand holding a postcard-sized watercolour painting of Tumbleweed, who is a small black kitten with a white stripe down his face connecting to a white muzzle, white chest and belly, and white paws. He is sitting on his rump and holding his very fuzzy tail between his two front paws while looking at the viewer. The background is light blue. End ID.]
me to my prodigiously shedding cats who nonetheless will not let me approach them with brush, comb, or grooming glove: PLEASE i just want to gently remove your unwanted hair more expeditiously this benefits us BOTH why are you so horrified