Happy Caturday! Today reader Georgiana Y. brings us two rescued kittens making her home a happier place (or a living hell, depending on who you ask):
Cutetropolis peeps, I would like you to meet the new members of my family, we adopted them from the Montreal SPCA. They were found along with more than a dozen other cats and kittens abandoned in a storage locker on July 19th so they already knew each other and get along great.
The little grey one is called Skye she is 4 month old, absolutely fearless and the cuddliest little fur ball. The house panther is Storm, she’s 1 year old and more independent but loves to get pets.
Minnie, my 15 year old, isn’t totally convinced about them yet and prefers to keep her distance for now but there hasn’t been any fighting, just some dirty looks and a bit of growling in the beginning.
Such cuties! I’m glad your older cat doesn’t seem too upset…yet.😉
And folks, I forget. What is the “dangling paw” rule? Is it that it triples the cute quotient?
Cos I totally agree!😁
They are just amazingly adorable. Huge win that Minnie is tolerating these young ‘uns.
Not to rain on people’s weekend but BIL passed early this morning. We’re managing okay. I’m just happy that hubby was able to be out there and say his good byes. Thanks everyone for the kind words over the last month.
Condolences to you and yours, AJ – I haven’t been keeping up very well, so am a bit behind everyone’s comings and goings. I hope your husband is at peace with his loss – hard to lose a sob.
Holding a good thought for you and yours, AJ.
Condolences to you and the whole family.
So very sorry for your loss, AJ. Condolences to your family.
I’m so sorry, AJ. We are sending hugs and purrs.
I’m sorry. I hope you all experience some peace now.
Oh AJ. So sorry. It is special to be able to say goodbye. I’m glad your hubby got to do it. 💕
Oh I’m so sorry.
I am thankful that hubby and his brothers were there together to say good bye and I hope be there for each other.
It’s my fur babies!! It’s been over a month now that we adopted Skye and Storm and Minnie is used to them now, no more growling. I don’t think she will ever cuddle with them but they all eat next to each other and will even all sleep on my bed.
A little background on the names, it was easy for Skye I named he after the Isle of Skye in Scotland because I though she looked like a little grey cloud and I had read about it and Isle of Skye means the Isle of clouds.
For Storm it was more difficult, we tried a few names but nothing seemed to fit her and then my husband suggested that since she’s a black cat we name her after the X-Men character Storm who is a black women and controls the weather and since he has never picked a name for one of our cats before I had to agree, also it fits that both names are weather related.
I hope everyone is as well as they can be and that you’ll have a pleasant weekend.
All your babies are gorgeous, Georgiana. It’s also great to hear that Minnie has accepted the pesky brats (her words, not mine). I like their names a lot.
All three of them are beautiful.
If those kittehs were mine, I’d never leave the house.
They’re also a lovely ray of sunshine on a day when many of us seem to need it. Thanks again for sharing them with us.
I feel for Minnie, my poor old lady just can not deal with this loud, raucous kitten who wants to play with her.
I love how they’re sleeping together on your bed. that is great headway.
Sending congrats to Georgiana on the new additions- they’re both adorable. And condolences to AJ and family. I’m glad everyone was at least able to say their goodbyes.
I’ve been lurking lately but too busy to comment much. At the beginning of August hubby and I drove two days to Denver, planning to spend 4 days there and drive back. The universe had other plans, though. My mom has been undergoing treatment for lymphoma (her third go-around with it) and she has a very large tumor in her lower intestinal tract that had actually broken thru the skin and was ulcerated. She had undergone 1 round of chemo and was doing well, but the first day we were in Denver the tumor started bleeding, profusely. She had multiple transfusions in the ER but was bleeding out as fast as they could transfuse. I had to call the ER and basically say goodbye to her as they didn’t think they could save her. But, she made it through the night, and over the past few weeks has been improving slowly. She’s now in a care/rehab center so she can hopefully gain strength back and continue treatment for the tumor.
But that two- day drive back from Denver, the first day on 1.5 hrs of sleep, was NOT fun.
Hugs, Sue. So sorry for your worry and for your mom’s pain. I hope she continues to mend.
Sorry about your Mom but glad she’s doing better.
Sorry about your mother health and I do hope she keeps improving.
I hope she is going to improve. This must have been really hard.
An amazing ordeal for all of you. I hope your mother continues to improve
Oh my God Sue. How horrible!!
What an awful experience to go through.
Take care!
Good golly, that sounds hellish. Sending strength and good sleep vibes your way.
That does not sound fun but I am so glad that she’s improving.
Aw, so cute!
AJ, I’m so sorry about BIL. Take care of yourselves.
I’m fighting with work stuff. It’s the last day of the month so I have to work tomorrow to do all the month-end stuff, but I need to run a data batch every day and if I can’t I won’t be able to start the closing stuff tomorrow (most weeks I just run three on Monday but I do it on the last Saturday in case there are errors so hopefully they can be fixed before Sunday), and there are errors I have to wait for other people to fix (two different errors that need two different people) so all I have to say is they better be ******* checking their email. I’ve been getting so many errors lately and I’m about to scream.
Hilarious and so true.
That was one of the most overplayed songs of the 80s. I still cringe whenever I hear the opening notes–not because I dislike it, but because it was ALWAYS on the radio. ALWAYS.
This is GENIUS!!!!
That’s not a dog, that’s a big piece of velcro.
Sorry to add more rain, peeps. I just said goodbye to my beautiful Beano (aka Arabella Doreen Figg). After our vet appointment on Thursday, I thought she’d be able to fight the respiratory and eye infections. However, yesterday she started yowling at odd intervals. Then in the evening, she had a convulsive fit. The fits continued throughout the night, getting closer together. She wasn’t even purring anymore when I petted her.
It was a year ago yesterday that I lost Josephine. I hate the month of August.
Hugs to you all.
So sorry about Beano. You did the best for her and let the good memories give you comfort. It’s been a rough week all around for everyone.
I am so sorry to hear that Beano passed away I know she was close to same age as my almost 16 year old Minnie. Sending warm hugs.
I’m so very sorry, Debg.
We are sending comforting purrs and hugs.
I’m SO sorry. I hope you can put the end out of your mind and concentrate on all your happy years together..
Oh no not Beano too. 💕 Hugs.
I am so sorry, DebG. We were all rooting for Beano to pull through. You did all you could, and so did she. But that doesn’t stop it from hurting. Hang in there.
Oh I’m sorry to hear about Beano. You’ve been so attentive, she was so loved.
I’m so sorry Debg. Agree about August- it was 2 yrs ago this month that we lost our Lahara kitty, also at 16ish yrs of age.
Aggressive feathered hugs going out to AJ, SoccerSue, DebG, and Allein, too. I was hoping for rain today, but not this kind.
FIL place has been emptied of all personal items, and local charity picking up furniture on Monday. We are waiting to hear back from the home we’ve chosen for him. So many legal problems have reared their ugly heads, because of bad choices he made both in near and distant past.
Deb, I’m with you on hating August. Between the heat, family Covid and my FIL, we have decided that, on September 1st, we’re going to tear all the August pages off our calendars and burn them. You are formally invited to attend.
Skye and Storm, welcome to Cutetropolis.
This is the crappiest week of the year it seems (and so I hope). The week of unexpected death.
On Friday morning my cousin passed away at the age of 42. She was caring for her husband who is at the final stage of cancer. We were kind of expecting the sad news about her husband, but not about her. She was seemingly perfectly healthy, so it was an absolute shock to the family.
Then at noon an uncle of mine passed away. He lived together with his sister who is in much worse condition, so again we kind of expected different news. Well my uncle was 82, but he was still running daily, up until 2 weeks ago. We thought this past 2 weeks had been just some temporary weakness for him, being 82, the insane heat and all.
Hugs to everyone, there is no rollercoaster that only goes down.
I’m sorry for the sad and ugly shocks your family has endured. I love “there is no rollercoaster that only goes down ”
Ems, my condolences to you and your family. I’m so sorry about this awful news.
So sorry for your lost, August has indeed been a bad month for a lot of people let us hope that September is kinder.
Thanks to all of you!
I can’t believe it peeps. So many having such difficult times. My heart goes out to you as well Ems. 💕
Ems, I’m so terribly sorry for your losses, and the shock. That’s very wise about the rollercoaster, but hard to remember when you’re hurtling down. I wish you gentler rises and falls. You need some gentleness.
Dear heaven’s,
I’m so sorry. Two sucker punches right after each other.
You all are in my thoughts.
Man, it never rains but pours. So sorry for 2 losses in such a short time. I’m with Duckie and think we should officially strike August from the calendar.
I think we all need a
Yep.
Yes–and a family of capybaras.
I’m much more of a lurker than a poster, but I feel I know many of you after this many years of following the site, and I send love, MANY blessings, and healing light out to everyone here who’s hurting and/or has experienced a loss. Death is hard, no matter how you slice it, and a BIG transition point, even if, like me, you are absolutely 110% sure that our souls and consciousness do go on to other things afterward. So I really hope all of you here can be kind to yourselves during the adjustment process, and take whatever space you need to feel whatever you might be feeling. Emotions, grief included, only cling all the more fiercely when you try to push them away, so please do your best to just breathe through anything that comes up and let it be what it is, without judgment–believe me, I’ve been an empath from the time I was tiny, and I can tell you for sure that things process and release from your energy field much more easily that way than if you resist or run away from them.
Anyway, big hugs and cute fuzzies to all, and may there be peace, strength, and comfort available to you, in whatever way best serves your particular needs and highest good. 💖
That is a lot of capybabies!
(Must be 2 or 3 different litters, right? Wikipedia says they usually have 4-5 in a litter. Maybe the adult is the field trip chaperone at the capybara elementary school…)
Hugs to all of you who’ve had bad news in the family.😢
Well said WaterDragon!
When it rains, it pours, I guess.
On a lighter note, my mom texted me and my brother Thursday night to see if we were available Friday because they were having lunch with my cousin who is up from Florida (he recently sold his house here and is down there full time now that his kids are both out on their own). I had the day off so I was able to go (my brother was getting ready to leave for Chicago to visit a friend). So that was nice.
So sorry about all the sad losses.
Good that Minnie has accepted the new babies! Our old girl still hisses at the younger cat. We’ve only had him for twelve years!
Georgiana, Skye and Storm are gorgeous, as is Minnie! I’m so glad they are getting along and you have a house full o’ Cute.
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An incredibly frustrating couple of days at the Shortcakery last week when a prescription went astray. I walked to my local pharmacy (A) to pick it up but they claimed to know nothing about it. Walked to the surgery where the receptionist insisted it was at A – “look, I’ll print the info for you!” We then realised it had been sent to pharmacy B by mistake. I phoned B and asked them to divert it to A, which they promised to do. The next morning I hied me to A, only to be informed that they had no idea what was going on. So I went by bus to B, confident that my quest was at an end. Alas, they had no record of our phone conversation and claimed that the prescription had been sent to an online delivery service we haven’t used for years and which had certainly not delivered anything.
At this point I realised that I was dealing with Schrodinger’s Prescription, an entity which exists only in an indeterminate state, so I asked the surgery to start from the beginning and make sure it was sent to A. Fingers crossed that it will be there on Monday morning…
Amazing sang froid! Thinking of Schrodinger’s Cat to get through an especially senseless and annoying daily life snafu!
I’ve had this happen before, but without the walking and the bus, which just adds insult to injury! Hope is there for you tomorrow🤞🏽
Arggg. It’s so annoying when nobody knows anything and yet keep insisting that they have the correct answers.
I admire the strength of your character that enabled you to not have caused an injury to anyone of those unhelpful persons. As Rudyard Kipling wrote “You’re a better man than I man Gunga Din.”
Congratulations on your newest family members!
Such a sad and difficult week for so many of us. My heart goes out to all of you who have had loss this week. Sending lots of hugs and love to you all. ❤️❤️❤️
Here’s hoping for a better upcoming week.