My boyfriend and I have three cats as of this morning, so I guess we are officially crazy cat people now!
This morning, my boyfriend called me from work and said that one of his co-workers had discovered a kitten hiding in the hood of her car AFTER she drove to work! Being the sweet guy he is, my boyfriend left work to take the kitten to the vet to make sure she wasn’t injured. The vet discovered that the kitten had worms, fleas, and an eye infection, and he inoculated her against FeLV and FIV.
Right now, the kitten is locked away in my bathroom (which means I’ll have to use his, I guess) and we’re going to have to keep her separated from our other two cats for at least 3 weeks.
Any name suggestions? My boyfriend suggested “Lucky,” and I guess she is.
Congrats! I like having three cats. We found a sick kitten last year, and now that she’s healthy again, it gives my two older cats a bit more exercise.
If it did belong to someone, they weren’t taking very good care of it.
IN re: names. I named my cat (the one I had when we met) Neutron. If my hubby had followed my advice, we would have nemd our second cat Proton, and then we could name this one Electron. But no, he had to name our second “Charlie.”
I want to be a crazy cat person! Although we have two cats at my parent’s place (one of them is “mine” the other ismy sister’s), I only have one cat at my place, but I want a second one to keep her company. My SO thinks we should wait for a combination of reasons (which kind of do, and kind of don’t make sense to me) so we are waiting. Our next cat will, however, be a little older when we adopt it (maybe a year old), and the other day we decided we’d like a male crazy cat named GIR.
I think in about a year, we will adopt another cat. The one we have now, Bree, is VERY adaptive to new situations, and we have travelled with her to my SOs parents place (they have a cat) and to my parents place, with the two cats and a dog, and she hasn’t been agressive or scared or anything, beyond a little nervousness with the dog. The older cats however…mean old-lady kitties!
Three cats between two people? Naw, you haven’t achieved crazy cat person status yet. Not even close. Try being ONE person with EIGHT cats – that definitely puts you into CCPerson-Land.
Seriously, congrats on the rescue, and the kind of partner who’d do that. We need more people like that in this sorry world.
I’ve got an engine-kitty too, congratulations!
She was discovered inside a Cadillac and she still has expensive tastes.
Cats and engine compartments go together naturally. It’s a warm, cozy, dark space-they love it. Unfortunately it’s also full of moving parts. My mother once drove around an entire day with a kitten sitting above the front wheel well of her car. She only noticed when the poor thing started to yowl finally.
I came home before my boyfriend did, so I went into the bathroom to meet her and just fell in love. She’s white in front, with a chocolate splotch that covers her back and left rear paw; her right rear paw is white. Her right eye is definitely infected; I put on the antibiotic goop the bf got from the vet on her eye, and then she started purring like an outboard motor and rubbing against my legs!
Well, thanks for all the suggestions. My bf vetoed any science-related names and names derived from foreign languages (he’s adorable but terribly conventional and unimaginative at times), and I vetoed Galadriel (having 3 cats AND naming one after a Tolkien character is just sad), so we’re going with Jenny.
Hmm, my musical theatre-deprived hubby has not yet been exposed to
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s cat-astrophe (or that eminently practical cat, T.S. Eliot, for that matter) so he wouldn’t get the reference. I may have to rent the DVD for him, since every gay man should have an appreciation for camp.
Hmm, maybe I should have suggested Mungojerry or Rumpleteaser
