Actually, Fluffy's sister is. But I get to watch. :)
She's living at my house for now, until she has her babies and everyone is weaned.
I'm really excited. Even now, I get to feel them moving.
She doesn't get the litterbox concept, so the past couple of days have been pretty stinky, but today she went to the bathroom and will stay there until she figures out where to go. She's not happy about it, but she pooped on my couch and that is JUST NOT ACCEPTABLE, so she will have to cope.
Anyway, yay - kittens! And they'll be adorable, so I will be able to rehome them no problem.
This cat, who I call Mamacat, is a sweetie, but much more timid than Fluffy. They look identical when I scratch right under the chin, though, and it about makes me cry. I can't even explain. I just love Fluffy so much that to have his sister there, and to be able to help her with her babies, and help her for in the future - no more going into heat and getting terrorized by all the neighborhood bullies... It's a very good feeling, even if I have had to do like three loads of smelly laundry in the past two days.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
