Monday, April 11, 2011

The tale of two kitties

If you are a faithful blog reader (smirk) then you know Grace had a kitten named Lurlurr who died. A few months later we decided to get two kitties to see if we could increase our odds for survival. Matt had a friend at work who talked him into it. They were "free". Grace got Garfield (an orange, long haired tabby) and Bella got Tigsy (an orange, short haired tabby). Brothers. I'm not sure exactly how I get talked into all these pets. Except that I love my "animal loving" children and husband. And also, I hate mice. A few days after we had them Garfield got an eye infection. (Not uncommon in kittens, apparently.) Then one day we came back from taking the kids to school and Garfield was limping, not putting any weight on his leg. Sweet. A $350 vet bill later.... Well, what were we supposed to do? Tell our daughter ( who had come back from Disneyland, months earlier, to find her first kitten had died) "Sorry sweetie, We were hoping to send you to college so..." Free cats indeed. Oh and did I mention that Bella put Tigsy in a diaper bag and dropped him out of our upstairs window while were out of town? He, of course, was fine. You gotta be tough to be Ramona...I mean Bella's pet.

It's like we live at the zoo.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Lost Cat found


Our cat Tigsy went missing this week. Matt called, "here Kitty, kitty..." in a soprano voice for hours.

I called the animal shelter and all three vet clinics.

We assumed the worse.

I saw our neighbor walking her dog the second morning Tigs was gone.

I just had a feeling I should.

She brought Garfield (our other non missing cat) home to us that night when Matt and McCade were out searching for Tigs.

Then the next day she carried Tigsy home from way up the hill the next night. We are lucky to have such nice, long suffering neighbors. (They also saved Toby from drowning last summer. Seriously.)

But back to Tigsy. I haven't properly conveyed how sad we were. I'm just not feeling very dramatic today as I write this.

I really just wanted to post this cute poster that Grace made. I even scanned it onto the computer. (Gasp, that is huge in case you don't know how completely tech challenged I am.) I thought I should tell the story that goes with it.