| And finally, the KITTIES!!!!!! I have two kitties. Ok, so I guess I have four now. I'm not quite sure how that happened. Read on if you want more details... One female, named Hugo (she was so teeny and sickly when I got her, it was impossible to tell the sex, so we guessed...the name came from my friend Kim) and one male, named Charles. They were both born around 1 May 1998. I got Hugo first. She's the gray and white one. She was just over three weeks old and had been abdoned at the OSU Vet Hospital. My then-roommate Kelly told me of her plight.....Hugo had a head tilt and couldn't see or hear anything (how's that for an exciting pet, deaf and blind!!) Thanks to several people, she is now happy and healthy, but is still deaf, which makes her a bit quirky. Like, she LOVES water. Toilet flushing is from God. She has also taken a liking a to Dan's ethernet switch, much to Dan's dismay! The second cat is Charles. He is a big orange male. And I mean BIG. Just for size comparison, here is charles on top of Craig, who is quite an ordinary sized boy. Actually, despite his size, he is a normal cat, and quite affectionate. (ok, and he's my personal favorite :) ) Charles has also discovered that the radiators are the source of the heat in my apartment. All in all, they both get along with each other quite well, spending their days grooming each other and sleeping on each other. I also have a temporary third cat, who really belongs to my brother. However, he was supposed to stay 2-3 months, and now it has been about 16 months. I have purchased him a name tag for his collar, and it has my address on it.... :) This is a nine year old all-black male kitty, named Bear. He is almost as big as Charles. Please. no comments about me being a cat lady... Here is Bear taking over my new couch, which used to be Craigs. He recently moved to Seattle, and I drove out there with him. The first things we saw was a big statue of something vageuly resembling the Jolly Green Giant in Minnesota. Then we saw the big stone HEADS!! Heres me at the heads looking displeased and Craig looking sassy. The weather was sunny and nice except for the like 5 hours we spent in Idaho (here is Craig in Idaho, where else but at a rest stop with his tiny bladder!!). Then we crossed the Columbia river, which was far more impressive looking than the picture seems. For some reason, I have no pictures of actual Seattle. I kept waiting for a sunny day to take pictures.... Other people's pets..... My next door neighbor and former roommate Kim also has great kitties. And a PIG...but, alas, I dont have any digital pics of him. :( Anyway, my personal favorite is Whitey, and the recent addition is Boo, and here they both are at an uneasy peace on Boo's first day home.....(whoops pic to follow soon there.....) Lisa had the cutest Beagle/Basset mix named Betty, who unfortunately died around christmas last year. And, last but not LEAST, Dan's dog GUMP. Is it possible that they are all friends? And speaking of other people's pets, I rescued a stray cat, who the vet sorta named "Lucky Besco-Cross", which was just so funny, it kinda stuck. He is really really sweet. Declawed and neutered, 100% litter-box trained. Here he is meowing for food, which is all he did for the first two weeks. Sadly, it turns out he is in the early stages of renal failure, so he gets special food and two kinds of medication, but thus far is doing quite nicely. After he adapted to our "zoo" a bit, his personality started to emerge. he is QUITE SASSY. He loves catnip and routinely smacks the dog, who just seems puzzled by this. Did I mention he is declawed? He doesn't know. :) |
