My husband wanted to get another cat soon after the Goddess died, but I didn’t. I love cats, but it’s a lot of work (and now that I am no longer pregnant, I do 90% of the kitty litter duty). I thought we might as well wait till Zebediah was old enough to ask/plead for a kitten.
This year, though, we started thinking about it more seriously. We went to a local Humane Society shelter, which of course made me want to take them all home. Also, it made me feel guilty about wanting to get a kitten rather than an older cat. Also, it made me think we should look at the city shelter, because the Humane Society has a no-kill shelter, but the city does not. Also, to donate money to all the local animal welfare groups.
When I found out that it is harder to find homes for black kittens and cats, I felt better about having said “if we’re getting a kitten, I want a black kitten”.
We decided to wait till later in the spring when there would be more kittens needing homes. Then we were too busy even to look until the semester was over.
I remembered that in the past, our vet had had kittens in need of homes in the office, and mentioned it to my husband. Then, when I was taking the Princess to the vet to board for the weekend (the last time, I hope, since we’ve found a cat sitter to replace our no-longer-next door no-longer-landlady) they had a little sign up: we have kittens! ask to see them! So I did. And brought my husband in the next day.
And somehow, when we went outside to discuss which of the four kittens to adopt, I was the one who suggested taking too of them. You know, so they could play with each other and bother the Princess less.
So now we have one sleek black kitty and one fluffy white/seal point kitty. They are about three months old.
I was trying to think of blog names for them that would reflect our geeky choice of real names. In honor of the new Harry Potter movie, I may just call them Fred and George on the blog, even though they are not identical nor red-haired. It fits the geeky-yet-popular source of the names and the personality types we were thinking of.
