The cat was chewing on my purple shamrock, so I moved it to another room, on my desk, away from the other plants.
He climbed up on my desk last night and ate the rest of the plant. 😡
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Kittenhood
Photographing a black cat is much more challenging than I would have thought. Getting a result that looks more like a cat than a massive black hole takes a non-trivial amount of processing.
Also, Baxter is the first cat Aaron or I have ever known to play tug-of-war. Once he catches that mousie on the pole, he wants to drag it off somewhere quiet and have some alone time with his kill.
Having a kitten again is pretty awesome.
Return of Caturday
By special request from my Mom, this is the return of the Caturday photo post.
Here we have Baxter perched in one of his favorite spots (photo by Connor).
Twitter Update: I am a Kitty Perch
I bent down to pull up my socks and this happened. #newkitten
It’s Baxter!
Today was the day! We made an appointment at a local cat shelter to adopt a kitten, and we left with Baxter! (Although he was called Bradley at the time.)
Baxter was one of a group of 25 kittens that made a 13-hour trip from North Carolina to find new homes in Ohio. He’s been ear-tipped to show that he was neutered, and he was accidentally double-microchipped (once in Carolina and once in Toledo).
He’s also slightly cross-eyed, which made him seem kind of, well… derpy? But when Connor stooped down to pet him, and he basically tried climbing up into Connor’s lap, that kind of sealed the deal.
He’s spent the evening exploring the house and getting used to his new people, and we’ve spent the evening remembering what it’s like to have a kitten in the house, and a lovey lap kitty at that.