Still alive!
Aug. 12th, 2020 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
st_aurafinaPandemic stuff is ongoing and tiring, but I'm alive and lilacsigil is alive. We are both alive.
We adopted two adult tonkinese cats. It was an exhausting round trip drive into Melbourne before the second lockdown, but it was entirely worth it. Their previous owner was rehoming them because they were not a good mix with the toddler, and now it seems the owner is moving back to Queensland. The kitties are six and five.
Amity is on the left, Sooky on the right. Amity is Sooky's mum.
[two chocolate brown oriental cats on a low bookshelf]
They're settling in well. They have the upper half of the house as their territory, and some limited mixing with Chewie in the other half. Amity is a champion jumper. We're keeping them separate with two toddler gates taped one on top of the other.
[two chocolate brown cats snuggling on a human sized bed]
Amity is a shoulder rider, and loves being up high. She's adventurous and chatty, and loves to be held.
She sleeps on top of me at night. She can open all sorts of doors. She has tiny protruding fangs and resting supercilious face, but is actually very friendly. She loves catnip and gets all drooly around it.
[brown cat on top of a carpet covered cat tree, at an open window with a view of greenery]
Sooky took a DNA test, turns out she's 100% that goblin. She's an absolute goofball, she boggles at everything, and has a super long, super independently active tail. She loves glitterballs and playing, she's as sleek as a seal, and I do not understand how her eyes fit inside her skull. She is much more shy than her mother, but she's a delight.
[boggle-eyed brown cat crouching on a wooden stool]
They've really helped to ease the pain of losing Baggins, not as a replacement, but because they both have their own character and it has been wonderful to get to know them.
Chewie is less pleased with the new arrivals, but since they've been here, he's stopped wandering the corridors howling, and is much more engaged with his world, even if he is often in a stand-off with Amity. The stand-offs are mostly vocal protests, but there have been two actual fights in three weeks. I think we're doing okay with the integration. Also, we got an outdoor cat enclosure so he has some space of his own, and he loves it.
[chocolate point cat climbing in an outdoor cat enclosure]
We're very happy with this cat family, even with the occasional hiss and snarl.
I don't know when I'll have time for another update, as work has been really frantic since the pandemic hit, and doesn't show signs of slowing down. But this was important! And I wanted to note it.
Stay safe. Wear a mask, if you can.
lilacsigil is alive. We are both alive. We adopted two adult tonkinese cats. It was an exhausting round trip drive into Melbourne before the second lockdown, but it was entirely worth it. Their previous owner was rehoming them because they were not a good mix with the toddler, and now it seems the owner is moving back to Queensland. The kitties are six and five.
Amity is on the left, Sooky on the right. Amity is Sooky's mum.
[two chocolate brown oriental cats on a low bookshelf]
They're settling in well. They have the upper half of the house as their territory, and some limited mixing with Chewie in the other half. Amity is a champion jumper. We're keeping them separate with two toddler gates taped one on top of the other.
[two chocolate brown cats snuggling on a human sized bed]
Amity is a shoulder rider, and loves being up high. She's adventurous and chatty, and loves to be held.
She sleeps on top of me at night. She can open all sorts of doors. She has tiny protruding fangs and resting supercilious face, but is actually very friendly. She loves catnip and gets all drooly around it.
[brown cat on top of a carpet covered cat tree, at an open window with a view of greenery]
Sooky took a DNA test, turns out she's 100% that goblin. She's an absolute goofball, she boggles at everything, and has a super long, super independently active tail. She loves glitterballs and playing, she's as sleek as a seal, and I do not understand how her eyes fit inside her skull. She is much more shy than her mother, but she's a delight.
[boggle-eyed brown cat crouching on a wooden stool]
They've really helped to ease the pain of losing Baggins, not as a replacement, but because they both have their own character and it has been wonderful to get to know them.
Chewie is less pleased with the new arrivals, but since they've been here, he's stopped wandering the corridors howling, and is much more engaged with his world, even if he is often in a stand-off with Amity. The stand-offs are mostly vocal protests, but there have been two actual fights in three weeks. I think we're doing okay with the integration. Also, we got an outdoor cat enclosure so he has some space of his own, and he loves it.
[chocolate point cat climbing in an outdoor cat enclosure]
We're very happy with this cat family, even with the occasional hiss and snarl.
I don't know when I'll have time for another update, as work has been really frantic since the pandemic hit, and doesn't show signs of slowing down. But this was important! And I wanted to note it.
Stay safe. Wear a mask, if you can.