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Evidence of kitten unseen
Jul. 17th, 2009 06:11 pmAfter ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jackfirecat heroically agreed to attempt to acclimatise to cat allergens, after helpful advice from many people, and after positive vetting by Cats Protection (by phone and then by a home visit, which will be followed up by a further check-up later), we now have a kitten! emily_shore and I went with Arshad, our cat advisor, to see the kitten we were offered, called Willow. He was living with a foster carer, Avril, and her 10 other foster and own cats. Of course as soon as I saw him, I was sold - I hope Jack and Emily feel similarly. Arshad asked all the sensible questions, so I think we made we made a reasonable choice as well. Avril was certainly a font of all knowledge cat-related and we spent an hour learning about vaccinations (all done), neutering (required when he's old enough), favourite food, etc as well as filling in adoption papers. We each got a brief cuddle and he seemed quite amenable to being held.
When we got him home, Jack joined us as we let him out of his basket. He emerged slowly, and then went straight under the chair and disappeared into the pile of boxes under the stairs. Since then, we've heard the occasional rustle, but the only evidence was once when Emily saw him visit the litter tray (what a well-trained kitten!) and a corner nibbled from his food. Avril had warned us that he was likely to hide for the first few days, but I hope he emerges soon.
"Willow" is a good name, but my old laptop is called Willow, so it would only be confusing. In any case, I'd like to call him "Kzin". I hope he'll live up to his proud name, except for the bit about killing or enslaving all humans and other non-Kzinti.
Since we haven't yet been able to catch him on camera ourselves, I made an icon from a photo of him last week in his previous domain.
jackfirecat heroically agreed to attempt to acclimatise to cat allergens, after helpful advice from many people, and after positive vetting by Cats Protection (by phone and then by a home visit, which will be followed up by a further check-up later), we now have a kitten! emily_shore and I went with Arshad, our cat advisor, to see the kitten we were offered, called Willow. He was living with a foster carer, Avril, and her 10 other foster and own cats. Of course as soon as I saw him, I was sold - I hope Jack and Emily feel similarly. Arshad asked all the sensible questions, so I think we made we made a reasonable choice as well. Avril was certainly a font of all knowledge cat-related and we spent an hour learning about vaccinations (all done), neutering (required when he's old enough), favourite food, etc as well as filling in adoption papers. We each got a brief cuddle and he seemed quite amenable to being held.When we got him home, Jack joined us as we let him out of his basket. He emerged slowly, and then went straight under the chair and disappeared into the pile of boxes under the stairs. Since then, we've heard the occasional rustle, but the only evidence was once when Emily saw him visit the litter tray (what a well-trained kitten!) and a corner nibbled from his food. Avril had warned us that he was likely to hide for the first few days, but I hope he emerges soon.
"Willow" is a good name, but my old laptop is called Willow, so it would only be confusing. In any case, I'd like to call him "Kzin". I hope he'll live up to his proud name, except for the bit about killing or enslaving all humans and other non-Kzinti.
Since we haven't yet been able to catch him on camera ourselves, I made an icon from a photo of him last week in his previous domain.
