Daily Archives: Thursday October 16th, 2008

If you’ve read Harold’s post we now have 2 new members to our family.  In case you didn’t see his post, here are the pictures that he took, including our oldest 2.

http://www.tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/2008_1015_cats/Alexis.jpg

14 + years/female

http://www.tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/2008_1015_cats/Reggie_Miller.jpg

13+ years/male

http://www.tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/2008_1015_cats/Sakura.jpg

4 months/female

http://www.tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/2008_1015_cats/Drew_Brees.jpg

4 months/male

The kittens haven’t really slowed down enough when a camera has been in reach.  They are fast little buggers!

Harold  so totally surprise me.  I’ve been pestering him since Aurora passed saying that I wanted another kitten, a feisty one like Randi & Aurora were.  Reggie & Alexis are totally different from those 2.  And when we lost Aurora, it made me mourn Randi’s passing from 2 yrs before all over again.  So I wanted another cat as ornery as they were.

Well, my husband is a softy when it comes to animals, especially kittens…..grin  And he just fell for them, even though he was only going to get one.

Yes, I’m the one who named Drew……..grin  It just seemed obvious to me.  =)  It is weird as hell to have two feisty kittens in the house again….it is has been 13yrs.  They have no fear.  It doesn’t bother them when they are hissed or growled at by Reggie & Alexis, they just stare at them and back away.  They don’t know the work NO yet…..lol  And correcting them doesn’t faze them in the lest.

Drew has seemed to have become my baby, while Sakura has become Harold’s.  Which works, she seems possessive of him and reminds me of his late cat Randi’s orneriness and carries herself like she use to.  She is the trouble child, that is for sure…..grin…but we are loving it.  Drew loves to follow me and sleep in my lap a lot.  They play hard and fast, but they also chill out good and crash hard.

Alexis & Reggie are slowly getting back into their normal behaviors.  They aren’t growling & hissing as much.  But we have been trying to give them as much love as they let us.  Reggie has yet to cuddle on Harold like normal, but you can see he wants it….but is too annoyed at him to do so.  I will say, there is nothing like having kittens (even 4 month old ones) to make your older cats look huge in comparsion.  It kind of weird.

We have an appointment for Drew & Sakura next week.  The shelter said that they needed follow ups to their surgeries within 10days.  We are taking them to the vet that Harold really liked when he took Reggie.  What is cool is that they honor that visit as part of the shelter program, even though they weren’t on the list.  The shelter has it arranged with certain vets that your 1st visit to them is free.  So we get to establish their primiary care physian with the one we like, even though we were going to take them there regardless.

Our kittens came with those shoulder chips in case they get lost.  So all I need to do is to register them this weekend.  We just need to remember to bring pictures of them to the shelter in a few months, they asked to see how they are doing.

With having Drew & Sakura around, if they aren’t on our laps or playing (where we can hear them), I get worried on what they are up to….lol  For the 1st time in 2yrs I had to get a 3rd litter box going…….at least it isn’t 5……lol  I had to do that when we had Randi, Aurora, Reggie & Alexis because Aurora was picky as hell even though you kept it clean.

They have totally distracted me from work and I am behind…..icks.  I got some of caught up and I really need to write this, it has been awhile.  I really need to balance our books after this so I know what is going on.  I have a few errands tomorrow, but I really need to work around that and apply for health insurance.