Toby and Nik finally actively playing with each other. So darn cute. I’m leaving the country for a week-ish on Wednesday and have been insane trying to get everything ready. Thankfully very kind neighbor has agreed to feed and play with the kitties while I’m gone so I’m less stressed. Okay, back to cleaning so…
Month: March 2009
Busy Week
I have my final project presentation tomorrow in my technical writing class (I made a guide to adopting an animal in the DC metro area–planning to figure out how best to translate it to the web, seriously so proud of the finished project, there are so many different shelter procedures that it took work to…
Credits
By the way, my mom isn’t just an awesome author, she also made the cute shirt in that photo. I don’t have the patience to sew like she does but I am good at patience with cats and dogs–maybe they come from the same place and she really is the source of my talent 🙂
Attempt at a photo shoot
After a bad shin splint forced me to cancel hitting Dupont with my friends, I was inspired by the photo of a lovely shelter dog (who has since been adopted) and me in my mom’s article “Help Wanted: Dogs” (about working dogs) in the March/April issue of Yes Mag, the Science Magazine for Adventurous Minds…
Lesson from Toby (and other animals)
I have scared Toby (on accident!) before and I have given him the indignity of a bath. I have caused Toby to be upset with me. However, within ten minutes he’s always back to being a happy loving kitty who wants me to know how much he loves me by purring as loudly as possible….
I Think It’s Progress…
Nikolai now can get to the top of the bed directly from the floor without using my ottoman as a stepping stool. He still scrambles a little and it’s utterly adorable to watch. I ended up giving his butt a boost the first time because he looked like he was about to fall back to…
Cats > Negative People
I got home today, my comparatively-short commute having been tripled in length by drivers doing apparently everything except driving, my headache seeming unlikely to improve given the blaring bass from my neighbor’s apartment, and the frustration of a long day at the end of the long week making me extraordinarily cranky. And Nikolai came up…
Training a Cat
Poor Nikolai has some scruffy patches in what will eventually be a beautiful, shiny black coat. Because of this, I’m hoping some special “tricks” will help him be more adoptable, plus give me a way to calm him at adoption events. I started working with him today and found that he likes food but won’t…
What’s New
Apologies for writing so sporadically lately. I’ve been working on a complete guide to adopting in the DC metro area which is keeping me rather busy. Also, I’ve been learning about fostering and now I have a foster kitty! Two cats, one Beth, the inmates will be running the asylum. Right now there’s just a…