Feline Arrival...

We have new cats.

I feel guilty, and I hope Pinky and Tyler won't be mad. We still miss them so much it almost feels a bit traitorious to get new cats. And of course in the back of my mind is the thought that one day we'll have to go through all the emotions of losing them, again.

We spent the afternoon adopting. It's more complicated than buying a car - and you can probably adopt a human child with less paperwork.

Mom had been actively looking for a week or two, we had decided it would be good for her to have some "company" in the house. She hasn't done well with the grieving process, and is lonely.

She had seen 2 kittens she liked a lot, and finally today I went up with her to meet them. They were OK... not particularly "cute" as far as kittens go. But... they sure purred like heck.

They are currently named (as bestowed by the foster people and the shelter) as Lady and Bandit, and they are from the same litter and inseperable. They both need each other and get upset when separated even briefly, so it was a sort of, you have to take both together, which is fine.

While there looking at them, I noticed a cage with 3 tiny tiny kittens, and immediately fell in love with one of them. One of those three was a runt of the litter. so super-tiny, and some other people were looking at it. But the other two, were still available.

(one of them just clawed their way up my leg ouch!! so cute!!)

So we had our hesitations and discussion trying to figure out which cat to take.

In the end, we decided, we will definitely take Mom's two original choices. AND... we'll take one of the other two as well, because she spent half the afternoon in my arms. The two were from one litter, and are about 3.5 months old,. the other two are from a different family and just 2 months old.

As it turned out, we also wound up taking home the FOURTH cat, as foster parents. Of course, that leaves us the option to buy him - and it's pretty obvious he'll wind up staying with us too!!! Felt sad leaving the runt all alone, but apparently the other people are going to adopt the runt and her mother,. so that's nice. I told the woman if they don't, we will certainly consider her too!!

WE NOW HAVE FOUR KITTENS'


I'll take pictures tomorrow.