Gratitude, Victory, and Acquisitions

[ladysprite]

...wow, you guys are good.

Two months of searching, and no luck. 48 hours after lamenting and whining on social media, and your hopes and wishes and support apparently changed the tides of fate. Friday afternoon a shelter we hadn't previously encountered responded to our (unhopeful) phone call with the answer that yes, they had an entire litter of kittens looking for homes, and would we like to set up a meeting at 11am on Saturday?

So, in between morning errands and afternoon tickets for 'Book of Mormon' (which is the best show I've seen in years, but that's another story), we hurried down to the adoption center, and came home with two new family members.



Yeah, we got two. So they can entertain each other instead of torturing my adult cat.


Little boy


and little girl.



They're brother and sister, about 10 weeks old. They haven't quite been named yet, though front-runners for names are either John Carter and Dejathoris or Harrison and Harlequin (and bonus geek points to anyone who can name all the sources). We're open to suggestions, though, if you have any ideas for awesomely cool geeky name pairs (while I love Kay and Gerda, I have decided that's just TOO obscure).

Elder Statescat is in a huff and a tizzy and a sulk all at once; he hissed and moaned at the babies for about five minutes before snorting a bunch of catnip and running upstairs to pout. So the babies are living in Moxie's old room for now, with supervised runaround time downstairs - I figure it'll take a few weeks for things to smooth over.

It feels so good to have more than one cat in the house again...

Comments

[whiffert.livejournal.com]

Repent, Harlequin! Said the TickTock man.... (perhaps not) Glad to see your quest come to fruition, or felinition? I was surprised to hear of how hard it was to find kittens. I wonder if the adopting agencies sift through the social media like employers do? Out here, we are lousy with kittens, but I am not prepared to adopt one now.. too many hours spent being at work.

We have cat issues, though. A local Tom is marking on our porch and raising a stink. We relocated a Momcat to a nearby farm where she was quickly adopted into a good home. Tom is still coming around. Coyote urine has not helped (nor human, heh heh)

[spiritdancer]

Look for a citrus-oil based deodoriser (I found one years ago called "Citrus Magic"). It does a good job on the stink, and the cats generally don't like it, and won't come back to respray.