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lydy ([personal profile] lydy) wrote2013-03-14 12:23 pm

Cute cats are cute

Nuit went into the vet to be spayed, today. When I put her in the cat carrier by herself, she began peeping piteously. Previous trips to the vet, she and her brother were both put into the cat carrier together, and they were generally fairly quiet together. The last trip to the vet, when I took Ninja out of the carrier and left Nuit in alone, she made sad peeping noises, clearly concerned about what the vet was doing to Ninja. She really likes her brother.

When I came home without Nuit, Ninja rushed up to me, clearly concerned. He has been fussing and worried ever since. He misses his sister. It's all very, very cute.

Nuit comes home later today (unless there's a complication, we all pray there is not).

Meanwhile, Arwen has gotten better and more skilled at not taking her pills. Every time I find a new strategy, she goes along for about a month, then she figures it out, and it stops working. I'm not sure what my next strategy should be. So far, she's still easy to pill the direct way, even though she hates it. I find that putting the pill in a half a pill pocket makes it easier to shove down her throat. But, eventually, that's gonna stop working, too. Silly cat.

Naomi is just generally very cute and sweet, just like always. She's developed the habit of showing up upstairs for fancy wet food, often with a kitten posse, according to Pamela. I have not seen this, but it sounds unutterably cute.

On a sad note, we are all missing Ari today. He was a fine cat. I found him, stranded, wounded, upset, covered in motor oil, and demanding that a people-type person Fix It Right Now in downtown Minneapolis on my way to work. He became Pamela's cat because for complex reasons, and he loved her madly, oddly, and deeply. He never really forgave me for the existence of Fester (long cat story deleted here), but I always loved him. I miss him.

[identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com 2013-03-14 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
The kitten posse thing just slays me. "C'mon, kids! Follow me! I'll show you where they keep the sucker good food!"
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[personal profile] pameladean 2013-03-14 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
It's totally hilarious. Naomi comes up to the closed kitchen door and scratches at it and makes her little breathy chirpy demand. I open the door, for a moment there is only the tortie cat, and then kittens erupt from where they have been lurking on the stairs. Only the wise Naomi knows the secret words to make the monkey open the door.

Arwen often makes an appearance, but later -- clearly she doesn't want to be seen as part of a posse, but she doesn't know the secret words either, or so she believes.

P.

[identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com 2013-03-14 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"What you say to them is, you say, merrrupp."
"Meep?"
"No, no, Nuit, you're pronouncing it wrong! Here, let me do it."
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[personal profile] pameladean 2013-03-14 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, poor babies. They haven't been separated since they were born, I imagine.

P.
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[personal profile] laurel 2013-03-14 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, poor Ninja. For almost the entire time I had Inky & Marlowe, they traveled mostly in one large cat carrier (or stroller) when they went to the vet or outside or when we moved. It was always very disconcerting if I took one of them somewhere without the other & they definitely seemed happier together. Of course it meant major alarm for both the rare times I took one somewhere without the other.

The posse does sound adorable. When I first brought Marlowe home I worried over if he & Inky would get along, but not long into the first night Inky was clearly showing Marlowe around my place.

Sympathies about Ari. This stuff is hard.

[identity profile] iraunink.livejournal.com 2013-03-14 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Condolences on Ari.