Exciting Happenings at the Circle A
Aug. 19th, 2024 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aIt has been a busy day.
In the late morning, I took the folks out to the airport, for their semiannual trip to see daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter, and new national parks on the mainland. Except this year it's three times, so I guess that's quadrimestral more or less, if you want to avoid the ever-ambiguous "triannual."
Kimberly and I will be all on our own on the island for the next three weeks, which breaks many of our normal routines. Which means I need to make an effort to get out and get my exercise, as I won't be walking or swimming with my dad. And we need to make an effort to play games since we won't have our normal Sunday game day.
OK, I totally buried the lede. The big happening is that we have a new cat lurking about Kimberly's office. Her name is Megara, and the local Humane Society highlighted her as the cat of the month and we felt very bad for her because she's 8 months old and has been at the Humane Society for most of her life, so we wanted to see if we could help out.
The problem is that she's a super scaredy cat (though the foster coordinator called her the angry cat, which we have yet to see). When we saw her at the Humane Society, she wouldn't even come out from under a tower to eat treat. She apparently was friendlier when she got there, but the Humane Society seems to have been a very bad environment for her.
We weren't willing to adopt her, because we'd barely even seen her, but we said we'd be happy to foster and see if she will come out of her shell. So we brought her home and we've got her for at least a week. If she turns into a great cat for our house, great, and if not hopefully we can at least calm her down and make her more adoptable, so we'll see how that goes.
There was a 4-year-old orangie female(!) named Peaches that was in the cage with Megara and super friendly. I felt bad for her too, because she'd been surrendered by her owner with another cat, and the other cat had been readopted and Peaches had not. I totally would have adopted Peaches, but I suspect someone else will take her despite her age, and there's no way we want four cats.
So for the moment we'll see if #3 can work out.
In the late morning, I took the folks out to the airport, for their semiannual trip to see daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter, and new national parks on the mainland. Except this year it's three times, so I guess that's quadrimestral more or less, if you want to avoid the ever-ambiguous "triannual."
Kimberly and I will be all on our own on the island for the next three weeks, which breaks many of our normal routines. Which means I need to make an effort to get out and get my exercise, as I won't be walking or swimming with my dad. And we need to make an effort to play games since we won't have our normal Sunday game day.
OK, I totally buried the lede. The big happening is that we have a new cat lurking about Kimberly's office. Her name is Megara, and the local Humane Society highlighted her as the cat of the month and we felt very bad for her because she's 8 months old and has been at the Humane Society for most of her life, so we wanted to see if we could help out.
The problem is that she's a super scaredy cat (though the foster coordinator called her the angry cat, which we have yet to see). When we saw her at the Humane Society, she wouldn't even come out from under a tower to eat treat. She apparently was friendlier when she got there, but the Humane Society seems to have been a very bad environment for her.
We weren't willing to adopt her, because we'd barely even seen her, but we said we'd be happy to foster and see if she will come out of her shell. So we brought her home and we've got her for at least a week. If she turns into a great cat for our house, great, and if not hopefully we can at least calm her down and make her more adoptable, so we'll see how that goes.
There was a 4-year-old orangie female(!) named Peaches that was in the cage with Megara and super friendly. I felt bad for her too, because she'd been surrendered by her owner with another cat, and the other cat had been readopted and Peaches had not. I totally would have adopted Peaches, but I suspect someone else will take her despite her age, and there's no way we want four cats.
So for the moment we'll see if #3 can work out.