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Sep. 7th, 2023 08:15 pmMore cat drama. My household is just a neverending font of cat drama.
For a surprise, though, this isn't household cats drama. This is the drama where I had put some cat food out in amidst the seeds for the crows and jays, and a couple days ago I was passing by the door and there was a cat going through the seeds and nibbling up the cat food. A freaking cat. Long black hair, pretty skinny.
So I put a small bowl of cat food out and it ate all of it so cleanly not a crumb was left, the bowl was a bit sticky with cat spit. My guess is that it's lost from its humans, given that; we've put up posts on NextDoor and Facebook and a couple other local cat groups with pictures of the poor boy. We've gotten a couple inquiries from people with lost cats but they both think it's too far away from their home for it to be their cat. I think they don't know how far a cat can or will travel (or be driven by hostiles) but we're going to give it a few days, examine the cat's behavior, and then try and humane trap it and take it for chip check and possibly vaccinations. If it doesn't have a chip, well, it's a single cat, it will go to the Humane Society or to one of the local rescue orgs to be adopted out. We are full up on cats. No room at the inn. We have reached cat totality.
Poor kitty, though. I get the feeling it's starving and scared. I also get the impression that it knows where the safe places in the house are, the crawlspace that goes under the house and into the garage. So hopefully it can have a short rest here and get some food and water before we trap it and freak it out and try and reunite it with its people, should it have any.
Other than that I suppose we've been blessedly drama free. Work continues apace, and no sooner have I gotten one pain in the ass site mostly done than another one is upon me. Though this one at least is less than half the size of the other one, so hopefully it won't be that much of a pain in the ass.
I've started a pen and paper (and stamps and stickers and washi tape) reading journal, and unlike the last couple of times I thought about it I've decided not to constrain myself to 'reading journal of this year'. Because I'll get into a reading slump and then I'll feel the pressure of "Oh no I only have six weeks left to read thirty books" and then I just won't do any of it. This way I'll just be filling in little book bingos and writing down words about parts I liked in the books I read, and making cute little drawings and pictures. And that'll be nice.
Less nice: dental cleanings. Car purchases. Well, purchase. Car purchasing. It promises to be a long and twitchy process, especially given the amount of computers that have gone into cars over the last thirteen years. Not looking forward to it. I would like a car that has a limited amount of moving parts and the only computer in it is the radio/mp3 player/cd player maybe. And yet. Somehow I do not think that is an option in our future. Well, we'll see. And in the meantime, I have been making progress on some writing things, which is deeply refreshing. More on that I think when I'm sure it's become an ongoing thing?
For a surprise, though, this isn't household cats drama. This is the drama where I had put some cat food out in amidst the seeds for the crows and jays, and a couple days ago I was passing by the door and there was a cat going through the seeds and nibbling up the cat food. A freaking cat. Long black hair, pretty skinny.
So I put a small bowl of cat food out and it ate all of it so cleanly not a crumb was left, the bowl was a bit sticky with cat spit. My guess is that it's lost from its humans, given that; we've put up posts on NextDoor and Facebook and a couple other local cat groups with pictures of the poor boy. We've gotten a couple inquiries from people with lost cats but they both think it's too far away from their home for it to be their cat. I think they don't know how far a cat can or will travel (or be driven by hostiles) but we're going to give it a few days, examine the cat's behavior, and then try and humane trap it and take it for chip check and possibly vaccinations. If it doesn't have a chip, well, it's a single cat, it will go to the Humane Society or to one of the local rescue orgs to be adopted out. We are full up on cats. No room at the inn. We have reached cat totality.
Poor kitty, though. I get the feeling it's starving and scared. I also get the impression that it knows where the safe places in the house are, the crawlspace that goes under the house and into the garage. So hopefully it can have a short rest here and get some food and water before we trap it and freak it out and try and reunite it with its people, should it have any.
Other than that I suppose we've been blessedly drama free. Work continues apace, and no sooner have I gotten one pain in the ass site mostly done than another one is upon me. Though this one at least is less than half the size of the other one, so hopefully it won't be that much of a pain in the ass.
I've started a pen and paper (and stamps and stickers and washi tape) reading journal, and unlike the last couple of times I thought about it I've decided not to constrain myself to 'reading journal of this year'. Because I'll get into a reading slump and then I'll feel the pressure of "Oh no I only have six weeks left to read thirty books" and then I just won't do any of it. This way I'll just be filling in little book bingos and writing down words about parts I liked in the books I read, and making cute little drawings and pictures. And that'll be nice.
Less nice: dental cleanings. Car purchases. Well, purchase. Car purchasing. It promises to be a long and twitchy process, especially given the amount of computers that have gone into cars over the last thirteen years. Not looking forward to it. I would like a car that has a limited amount of moving parts and the only computer in it is the radio/mp3 player/cd player maybe. And yet. Somehow I do not think that is an option in our future. Well, we'll see. And in the meantime, I have been making progress on some writing things, which is deeply refreshing. More on that I think when I'm sure it's become an ongoing thing?