GeeCee's Not-Entirely-Original Miscellany

As Chris and I were walking out the door last month to head to the airport and on to Good Good Beard Boat 2 JoCo Cruise Crazy, we were pretty much tackled by a small cat who wanted nothing in the world more than to come inside the house. We figured she must belong to one of our neighbors and had slipped out of their house somehow; all the doors in the neighborhood look the same, so maybe she was just confused. Since we were running late for our flight, we didn't have time to go look for her owners. Fast forward to last week, and we come home to see this cat sitting on our neighbor's doorstep. Once we came home, she wandered over to our porch to hang out, and in the morning I found her curled up asleep outside the door. Saturday night it got cold again, and being the big sucker for animals in distress that I am, I let her in the house and fed her. Chris talked to some of the neighbors, and apparently she's been hanging around pretty much since the time we first saw her, and trying to get into whatever door she can. We took her to get checked for a microchip yesterday, which unsurprisingly she didn't have. And, er, got her a collar with a bell since she's part magician and has a talent for disappearing into thin air
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If nobody claims her we're going to find a rescue to take her because after all the damage our previous diabetic cat did to the carpets, "can we have another cat" is not a conversation I want to have with our landlord right now. (At least not until all the carpets have been professionally cleaned.) He wasn't thrilled with us having a cat with claws in the first place, but "willing to rent this place that's been standing empty for months right now" trumped that, I guess. We can't have another cat right now. Really, we can't. Especially one who looks like she might be bringing a few more cats along for the ride. (She's tiny, but suspiciously tubby.)

Anyone local in the market for an adorable little cat?

Seen at fimbrethil's:

I laughed. A lot.

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Like pecunium says, the world needs more crazy like this.

If you're in the Seattle area and are looking (or knows someone who is looking) to adopt a cat, Cherie Priest passed on information that for the rest of the month, the Seattle Humane Society is waiving the $80 adoption fee on all cats over one year old because they've got so many in care.

If anybody in the LA area is willing to adopt one or more adult cats, please either drop a line to oletheros or contact me and I'll pass along your info. He & his wife need to find homes for 8 adult cats ASAP.

Thanks!

Browsing Petfinder and ogling doggies that I unfortunately can't adopt, I ran across an organization called "Furry Suits Rescue". I gotta say, the immediate mental images were...interesting.

(YKIOKBINMK and all that.)

All that aside, look at how adorable this boy is!

Before taking off for my drive, I spent some time installing the antenna for my XM receiver; this involved some running of wire through the engine compartment and the open driver's side door. Once I had the wire threaded through, I got in the car and closed the door that had been open throughout this experiment. As I'm fiddling with the receiver, I catch something in my peripheral vision and think to myself "Huh? I'm sure I didn't leave any sort of stuffed animal in the car other than the Pirate Stitch in the back window." I turned around to find this little guy sitting in the back seat and asking where we were headed.



Kitty took a tour of the back seat, stood up and looked out a window or two, and helpfully sat still long enough for me to snap a picture to show nminusone. Once I stopped laughing, I got out and opened the back door, and we hopped out and wandered off. Must've snuck in through the open door while I had my head under the hood. No idea who this cat belongs to, if anyone, but I see it around the neighborhood pretty often and it's quite friendly. Obviously. I'm not entirely convinced it belongs to anyone here, since there's no collar and its fur often seems a bit dirty. It seems reasonably well-fed underneath all the poof though, so maybe it lives somewhere around the block.

So, what do you think should be the official animal of Washington, DC? (With bonus Butterstick picture!) The comments so far are hysterical.

Giant pandas are by far the cutest option, but I think anyone who's ever spent any time in DC at night will agree that if you want to go with something native, you need to vote for the ROUS.

So today's viewing of Tai Shan was not the most exciting ever. We hit naptime, apparently.

( Small cute things are even cuter when they're in buckets )

( Where was mama? )

( All that eating is hard work )