Reposting my post of the year for 2025.
More #explainingthingstokittens and #explainingthingstocats in 2026.
7
0
0
0
Hashtag
#explainingthingstokittens
Advertisement · 728 × 90
Cute white and gray tabby foster kitten kitten with the cursed baseball game in the background
Explaining to foster kitten Wren that the playoff extra innings rules are different than the regular season rule extra innings rules rules.
#explainingthingstokittens
#explainingthingstocats
11
0
1
0
A cute but serious looking gray tabby foster kitten sits on the stairs waiting for something to happen
I explained to foster kitten Indigo that no I don’t need to listen in on the court hearing while the baseball game is on.
#explainingthingstokittens
#explainingthingstocats
58
6
0
0
Two gray and white foster kittens sitting attentively on a cat tree thing in war ravaged Portland, Oregon
Foster kittens Indigo and Wren listen to me explain what ”colorable assessment of the facts and law within a range of honest judgment” might mean in 2025.
#explainingthingstokittens
#explainingthingstocats
53
2
5
1
A perfect gray and white tabby foster kitten named Indigo sits on the corner of a small nightstand-like table in the kitten room, looking up at you in both confusion and concern.
Foster kitten Indigo listens to me explain that if you are going to amend your city code to incorporate state regulations by reference, you really should take the time to double check those references.
#explainingthingstokittens
#explainingthingstocats
#adoptthiskitten
41
1
3
0
Foster kitten Bramble’s reaction when I explained the City Council’s committee situation.
#explainingthingstokittens
#explainingthingstocats
#fosterkittens #adoptakitten
26
1
0
0
A very cute 5-month-old tuxedo foster kitten named Posey sits near a screen door contemplating the word “foster”
Sweet foster kitten Posey, with her 5-month birthday coming up this week, listens to me explain, again, that although she’s lived essentially her entire life here, we’re still looking for a permanent home for her somewhere else.
#explainingthingstokittens #explainingthingstocats
105
9
6
3
I am familiar with this attitude.
#explainingthingstokittens
#explainingthingstocats
9
1
1
0
A very cute, very sweet tuxedo foster kitten loafing on some shoes that she has untied again.
Foster kitten Posey, who has been in foster for too long by the way, listens to me explain why it is not necessary that all the shoes in the shoe thing by the door be untied at all times.
#explainingthingstokittens
#explainingthingstocats
#caturday #adoptakittentoday
898
51
19
5
A gorgeous tuxedo kitten named Posey with a dark face, a white chest, amazing whiskers and half of white pencil mustache. She’s sitting in the sun, just inside a sliding glass door, with an outside deck with plants and flowers in the background on a glorious Saturday afternoon.
Foster kitten Posey listens to me explain why I don’t believe that there is actually such a thing as “pie cherries” and that actually it is just a marketing scam to get people to buy plainly inferior cherries.
#explainingthingstokittens
#explainingthingstocats
#pleaseadoptthiskitten
672
42
22
3
A VERY playful tuxedo foster kitten looks up at you, preparing for your next move involving a bright yellow hair tie sitting on the floor in front of her.
Foster kitten Posey listens to me explain that a brief discussion of the word “fetch” is, in my opinion, perhaps the most lasting cultural artifact from a fairly popular 2004 movie.
#explainingthingstokittens
#explainingthingstocats
5
0
0
0
Alt text missing: a cute black and white tuxedo foster kitten with wide eyes hangs on to the top of a couch cushion for dear life while I tell her all about textualism at the Supreme Court.
Hashtags missing:
#explainingthingstokittens
#explainingthingstocats
4
0
0
0
A cute brown and white tabby kitten named Parker sits in his kitten room clutter listening to me with equal parts boredom and resignation.
Foster kitten Parker listens to me explain that wish casting around office to residential conversion may be detrimental to the extent it distracts from cheaper and better solutions to both the office problems and housing problems.
#explainingthingstokittens
#explainingthingstocats
53
3
1
0
A sweet tuxedo kitten named Posey sits on top of a dome-topped catbed thing against a white wall with a small but distracting scratch of chipped paint.
Foster kitten Posey, irrationally fixated on a flaw in the paint on the kitten room wall, listens to me explain that sure, it’s “deferred maintenance” but it’s unfunded and a lower priority in the overall kitten room maintenance program.
#explainingthingstokittens #explainingthingstocats
1081
53
39
5
Cute brown tabby foster kitten named Joan sits on a pink blanket scrap in a window, looking for some sort of escape.
Cute foster kitten Joan listens to me explain WHEREAS clauses again.
#explainingthingstokittens
#explainingthingstocats
4
0
0
0
Gray tabby foster kitten with bright eyes and extraordinary whiskers looks upward with some concern
Foster kitten Woody listens to me explain the funding model for animal services in Multnomah County.
#explainingthingstokittens
#explainingthingstocats
32
0
1
0
Garth, a brown tabby foster kitten with sweet disposition and excellent whiskers looks at me with a mildly confused expression which is actually just feigned interest
Brown tabby foster kitten Garth pretends to be interested in my explanation of how internal services budgets impact general fund programs.
#explainingthingstokittens
#explainingthingstocats
3
0
0
0
A brown and black and orange tortie foster kitten named Janis looks at me with amused disappointment.
This sums up the reaction from the kitten room when I explained that I’ll be reading the county budget much of the day today.
#explainingthingstokittens #explainingthingstocats
8
0
0
0