The title of this charity event for feral cats leads to a not so pleasant misread.

In other news, we're back from Mexico. I'll be posting about our doings for the last month over the next couple of days. It's been busy, fun and relaxing!

Carmen gave me a big scare today. I had placed a box of wine bottles on a wooden chair next to my desk. She got curious what was in the box, but couldn't jump up onto the seat of the chair since the box was taking up all the space. So instead, she hooked her front paws over the back of the chair and pulled herself up clumsily, with her hind legs ( Read more... )

It's now our fourth day with Carmen. We kept her in the guest room all of Saturday (except the couple times she escaped), but decided that on Sunday we'd just let her explore the full apartment. She was so curious! She sniffed every corner, and worked her way up from ground level to the highest reaches she could access (or that we'd allow). A ( Read more... )

We got our new cat at noon today. The shelter was calling her Nettie, which is cute, but we have opted for Carmen. One of the shelter volunteers had apparently been crying all week when she found out Nettie/Carmen was going to leave ( Read more... )

We picked out a cat from the shelter yesterday. It was a hard decision between two of them and we might have taken both if they hadn't told us that they both thought they were cats that needed to be by themselves ( Read more... )

Yesterday we went to a little party at Christian's colleague's house in Hamden. About a dozen people showed up. We talked for a couple hours, had pizza, and then dessert. Christian and I had brought this fruit "tart" (really, a huge cake) that we got at a French-style bakery on State Street on our way home from looking at kitties in the shelter. It ( Read more... )

This afternoon Christian and I finally got serious about adopting a cat or two. We walked down to the Greater New Haven Cat Project and played with all the kitties. Many of them were friendly and curious when it was just us in there and the three staff members, but when two other people came, the cats got all skittish and crazy because it's a ( Read more... )

I am missing a black sock. It must be the work of Klepto Kitty!

The first evening I was in Opole visiting my aunt, her cat, who spends most of its time outside, came home after a weeklong absence. That absence alone wasn't unusual, but she was completely emaciated and weak. We gave him food but he didn't touch it and then he spent the night outside as usual. The next day in the evening he showed up again, ( Read more... )

I'm leaving for France tomorrow (Wednesday) evening. I'm excited and nervous and everything. However, things don't feel quite so final about leaving New Jersey, since as it turns out, I will be back here in just three weeks. Explanation: I have to travel to Banff for a conference in July. Flights on US carriers (I am restricted to this by the NSF) ( Read more... )