Ch-ch-ch-ch

[andrewducker]

For the first time in seven years, I am not living with a cat.

At midday, lizzie_and_ari came over with a cat carrier and we carried her, her bowls, her food and her litter over to their flat (a five minute walk up the road). And then we sat in their study, let her out, and petter her while she investigated her new home.

She seems to be settling in fine - she was happily eating food, climbing on the desk, and winding herself around Lizzie's ankles. She even had a brief encounter with their existing cat (Cedric) which consisted of nose-sniffing and a single miaow, rather than the hissing I'd feared.

I'm hopeful that she'll be happy there, and have the kind of company and attention that I'm just not about enough to give her.

I'm not going to miss her waking me up at 7am to demand the breakfast she never gets before 8am. I'm not going to miss her constant demands for food at every other part of the day that's more than five minutes after her last meal. And I'm not going to miss finding her cat hairs in anything put down for more than ten seconds (including my dinner).

But I will miss her.

Comments

[anef.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry that you have had to give up your cat. But you will be able to go and visit, won't you?

She woke you up at 7am? Luxury! Mine thinks 5.30am is breakfast time. Maybe breakfast time is always one hour earlier than the human believes it should be.

Things taste better with cat hairs in them...

[derumi.livejournal.com]

5:30am? Lucky! How about 3:30am with dingleberries?

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

There has been hissing. And luncing... but they're currently both in one piece.

Lxxx

[diotina.livejournal.com]

*misses her by proxy* :(

[derumi.livejournal.com]

I was sad to give up the cats I had, though I don't miss the allergies. And the destroyed clothing. Waking up with that painful sinus headache every morning was too much, as cute as the furry critters* were. They seemed to have gone to good homes, though.


* Was going to call them "buggers", but wasn't certain how that plays in the Queen's English.

[andrewducker]

"buggers" would have been fine. As would "bastards" :->

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Poor Denver. She's the kitty of a broken home twice over!!

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

ps my cats don't wake me up early and seem quite happy if they get fed any time before noon. You just have to raise em right :-P

[andrewducker]

That may be because your cats have lots of food down all the time. Denver didn't used to wake me up - until she was put on a diet and lost all that weight...

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

But I only put down what food they;re meant to get, really. They just don't eat it all at once, so they always have food.. they are grazers!

[andrewducker]

I know! But it really is better this way. I'd have been a crap cat owner.

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Me too. ;-)