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mistressofmuses) wrote2024-09-22 06:54 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2024-09-22 06:54 pm
Kitty!
My mom and Taylor have adopted a cat. <3 They picked her up on Friday.
She's 14, though she seems to be in very good health. She was picked up as a stray, but was microchipped. Checking the microchip, it turned out she'd been adopted as a kitten (or young cat; unsure) from the same rescue that had picked her up. Apparently, attempts to contact the original adopters and microchip contact information yielded no response.
She was given a pretty extensive dental procedure and wound up having several teeth extracted. She's otherwise very healthy! A bit underweight, though she'd gained about a half a pound while in the shelter, though lost some of that post-dental-surgery.
You can see the shaved patches on her legs where she got IVs for the surgery.
She doesn't have a name yet: my mom was leaning toward "Mocha", though my favorites off the brainstorming list were "Blackberry" and "Nebula."
I also put forward that she should get a creepy/magic-themed/ominous name, because her intake weight after being picked up by the rescue was 6.66 lbs. (Grimoire? Spellbound? Macabre?)
She is astoundingly sweet. She's already settled into the house like she's owned it all along. She's very content to lay in a lap for hours. She purrs like a little jet engine. She wanted pets from me and from Alex the instant we met her, and gives lots of headbutts. My mom and Taylor have both remarked on how gentle she is. She's very talkative, though her meow is a little rough, so she sounds grumpy even though she's not.
She does not like other cats, and has never been tested around dogs. We'll have to see whether my mom can still watch Cy and Bella occasionally for us... Bella has also never been tested around cats. (Cy loves cats.)
I'm so glad they have her. <3
She's 14, though she seems to be in very good health. She was picked up as a stray, but was microchipped. Checking the microchip, it turned out she'd been adopted as a kitten (or young cat; unsure) from the same rescue that had picked her up. Apparently, attempts to contact the original adopters and microchip contact information yielded no response.
She was given a pretty extensive dental procedure and wound up having several teeth extracted. She's otherwise very healthy! A bit underweight, though she'd gained about a half a pound while in the shelter, though lost some of that post-dental-surgery.
You can see the shaved patches on her legs where she got IVs for the surgery.
She doesn't have a name yet: my mom was leaning toward "Mocha", though my favorites off the brainstorming list were "Blackberry" and "Nebula."
I also put forward that she should get a creepy/magic-themed/ominous name, because her intake weight after being picked up by the rescue was 6.66 lbs. (Grimoire? Spellbound? Macabre?)
She is astoundingly sweet. She's already settled into the house like she's owned it all along. She's very content to lay in a lap for hours. She purrs like a little jet engine. She wanted pets from me and from Alex the instant we met her, and gives lots of headbutts. My mom and Taylor have both remarked on how gentle she is. She's very talkative, though her meow is a little rough, so she sounds grumpy even though she's not.
She does not like other cats, and has never been tested around dogs. We'll have to see whether my mom can still watch Cy and Bella occasionally for us... Bella has also never been tested around cats. (Cy loves cats.)
I'm so glad they have her. <3