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Mar. 6th, 2013
Second Thoughts or.... coming to my senses
Mar. 6th, 2013 09:19 am
I'm not nearly as convinced today as I was yesterday that a new kitty is what we need. I'm still pretty convinced but yesterday nothing could have dissuaded me. Today, not so much.
I am still going to be at the shelter at noon to see Jasper but the burden of proof will be on her. If she convinces me, or if another kitty convinces me that they will be fun for me and Betty, then ok, but I think - I hope - I have a little more sense about it all today. I want a snuggler.
Betty is sitting here right now, not because she wants to snuggle or play. She wants more breakfast.
It's a good bet she will not like the new kitty. She didn't like Jake and she didn't like Travis but they both kept her busy and distracted and on her toes and exercised. That's what she needs, I think.
And she needs food. I have a shipment coming in from my Amazon Subscribe and Save but it won't be here until next week. So I think I'll stop on the way to the shelter and lay in some cat food.
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That's really it for today's agenda. If I come home from the shelter with a kitty, the new kitty and I will spend the afternoon in the bathroom listening to the baseball game. In a loft like this, the bathroom is the only room with a door on it. So that's where new kitties go until they lose their initial freak. With Travis and with Betty, it took only a couple of hours and then I let them out and watched them carefully. I don't remember exactly how Betty reacted except that she made sure Jake (who was twice her size) knew he should not fuck with her. He never did.
Travis went under the bed but was powerless against the laser pointer and soon came out. Betty hissed at him and he ignored her. They danced around each other after a while and signed some kind of kitty accord.
We shall see what happens today if ...
The city of Seattle has a shelter and that's where I got Betty and Travis and that's where the kitty I wanted was listed as up for adoption so that's where I was when their doors opened today.
It was a bit of a disaster. The kitty my friend found on the web is a senior cat 15-18 years old and in kidney failure. She's in foster care now. The had about 10 cats for adoption but it was too crowded to see them. It's really a tiny, smelly place and the volunteers aren't the easiest to work with so I left.
The county Humane Society is not nearby... It's about 20 minutes outside of town. I'd actually never been there before. It turned out to be so worth the trip. They have all the cats in little rooms of 5 or 6 cats each. Each room has a place for a human to sit and cat toys to entice the cats to play. It's clean and pretty and not at all smelly.
They had lots of cats but the only ones I clicked with had real issues. 1 was spoken for - may be available after today if she's not claimed. Then I found one I really thought was it but when I went to pay up and do the deal, they told me she was there because her owners said that in 4 years she had never learned to pee in the litter box. Er no. Then I found another one who was such a lover omg. He was just a massive ball of cuddle. But he was massive and had to have a special diet. I can't handle a special diet with Betty.
By that time I was starving so I came home. I'm not done just done for today.
It was a bit of a disaster. The kitty my friend found on the web is a senior cat 15-18 years old and in kidney failure. She's in foster care now. The had about 10 cats for adoption but it was too crowded to see them. It's really a tiny, smelly place and the volunteers aren't the easiest to work with so I left.
The county Humane Society is not nearby... It's about 20 minutes outside of town. I'd actually never been there before. It turned out to be so worth the trip. They have all the cats in little rooms of 5 or 6 cats each. Each room has a place for a human to sit and cat toys to entice the cats to play. It's clean and pretty and not at all smelly.
They had lots of cats but the only ones I clicked with had real issues. 1 was spoken for - may be available after today if she's not claimed. Then I found one I really thought was it but when I went to pay up and do the deal, they told me she was there because her owners said that in 4 years she had never learned to pee in the litter box. Er no. Then I found another one who was such a lover omg. He was just a massive ball of cuddle. But he was massive and had to have a special diet. I can't handle a special diet with Betty.
By that time I was starving so I came home. I'm not done just done for today.