cornerofmadness

We spent the day today playing and just sitting. He was with me on the couch when I grabbed him and put him in the carrier. He shrieked. He hated the carrier (and Kanda went and hide when he heard him). He didn't say a word after that.

The guy from the Perennial Cat Shelter (check them out) met me at the car and asked me how I was. I couldn't answer and he didn't miss a beat, answering for me. Sad. He told me about how he cried when he had to give up the kittens his cat had. We talked about getting my students down there to volunteer. He showed me the place and the new cats, 9 of the predicted twenty all from the same woman. One looked just like Kanda.

Soul will be in the isolation crate for a week. We couldn't get him into it. I had to completely dissamble the carrier to get him out. He was terrified and I felt so horrible. He spent the rest of the time huddled in a corner, his chin on the litter box. At least he'll have company in that room because someone else came to surrender a very calm and cool about it white cat with bi colored eyes. I was there for about an hour before I said goodbye. Oran, the man who's sort of running it, assured me they've never not had a cat qualify for the no kill exemption and that if there was some reason Soul didn't make it, they'd let me know. I'll go get him back.

I'm calmer now than I was all day and it didn't help that the day started horrible. I had had a headche all day yesterday but at midnight it turned blinding. I'll call it a migraine for intensity but it wasn't one of my migraines. It was one of the ones I went to the doc for and he acted like he didn't believe me, the old bastard. It has to deal with my sinuses and this weather. Lying down hurt. If I did fall asleep I'd be awake within the hour in so much pain I thought my eye was falling out. If it wasn't 3 in the damn morning I would have gone to the ER and said look at my sinus NOW. It's doing it NOW. So I've had no sleep and it was a long day.

I took a video (the first time on this camera) of them playing but it was SO dark it's not really good but here it is with me sounding like an idiot. You can see the huge stack of grading in its bag.



And I took some final photos
( Goodbye Soul )

Kanda ran and hid from me when I came home. It's been a sucky year pet wise. I lost Roy in March. Mom and Dad lost Rogue in June, John lost Pebbles last month and now Soul.

And to end on a slightly better note check otu these

Christmas trees around the world I love looking at takes around the world (so why did we need about 3-4 things from DC I don't know)

I opened the door to get Roy in, figuring this would be a good time to let him get used to everything again since it's a weekend. I was too sleepy to think about putting Kanda in a room. This becomes important later.

I had just spent 20 minutes talking to mom with Kanda acting like a thrasher all over my legs and making me seriously considering future surgeries for him. I open the door and Oscar (the neighbor cat) runs in. Roy, his BFF, is right behind him but WON'T come in. As I'm trying to get him in, Kanda runs out.

Well fuck. I'm in a nightgown and I'm more embarrassed that it's 930 and I'm still in a nightgown moreso than I am over my stars and moons gown. I run out. Grab Kanda who is interested in Ginko's mom. I get Kanda. Oscar and Ginko's mom get back in the house.

Now it's like bailing kitties. For every one I toss out another gets in. I get Kanda in a back room. I get the others out. Roy still refuses to come in. I say screw all of you and just shut the door. Kanda's wondering why he got locked up. I'm bleeding all over from various scratches


BUT at least now I know Ginko's mom can be handled. I see a no-kill shelter in her future. And when the neighbors inevitably leave (since i don't think they're even feeding Oscar any more) it'll break my heart to give Oscar up because he is so sweet.