Gabby and her four kittens arrived at 50K on Monday night, thanks to a Homeward Trails volunteer named Natalie who must have spent two hours driving on their behalf, from her home in DC to Rockville to Arlington and back to DC. Transport volunteers are heroes in my book.

This posse came from the Tucker County shelter in West Virginia, where I assume they got their names. Not sure how Gabby fits into the Camelot theme, but here she is.

Gabby has one weepy eye and some nasal discharge, but otherwise seems healthy. Her kittens are all weaned, but I’d bet her dairy bar is still open, given the quantity of milk she seems to be carrying.

Gabby is a little shy and has a tendency to retreat under the futon when we enter the villa, but her kittens are too busy playing with toys to follow her lead.

Let’s meet the Camelot kittens:

Morgana is a cute tortie with white highlights. Fairy queen and sorceress? Maybe.

Nimue (which the Internet tells me is pronounced NIM-oo-ay) is a rare female orange tabby, with white highlights on her chest and paw tips. If she’s the Lady of the Lake, her lake is full of tasty fish, since Nimue is the heaviest of the Cams.

Arther, which we’re spelling with an e, since the 50K database (and general respect for our inmates) prohibits using the same name twice, and we already had an Arthur.

So Arther is a medium-haired tuxie boy with a hip soul patch on his chin. Stay tuned for more.

And Merlin is an orange-and-white boy who likes to tunnel into the gap between the two adjacent litterboxes and defend his “castle.”

So far all of the Cams seem active and friendly, but Arther stands out as a serious goofball.

He loves the broken wobble toy, which long ago lost the feathers from the end of its string.

But he also loves to just flop around and flaunt his tuxie mop.

Given that the other Cams don’t seem to share this show-off gene, we’ll have to make an effort to get them equal time in front of the camera.

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