Interesting day.
First of all, I got a Beta Key for the new MMORPG Aion from Erin and her man Justin, who got it from a friend? (I think? I OWE THEM EVERYTHING I AM FOR GETTING ME A KEY ANYWAYZ) I dinked around a bit in the game, and it's certainly very diverse with character creations. It's got lots of quests, and a very pretty environment. Not sure how the end game will pan out at this time though, cuz I didn't get past lvl 11 before the beta server went down.
Anyway, under the cut you will find my screenshots from the game (not resized, sorry. I was being lazy) and my second interesting story of the day.
My character, Narlafayn of course. It's so refreshing to be able to make her how I want her to look. :D
Narlafayn's hubbyhubhunkahunka burnin love Terebel. Made him for Scott to play, but he decided he wanted to play a mage instead.
and the mage, Kalline, that scott made.
ok so my second story of the day.
Since fall of last year I've been feeding this adorable stray cat outside. After awhile she was starting to get braver and more social towards me, she'd actually stick around and hold a meowing conversation with me. Unfortunately, we left the house for a month for a brief summer vacation before scott's school started up again, and so the cat wasn't getting fed and became more feral while we were gone.
We also recieved a note from our landlord reccomending that we don't start feeding the cat again because the neighbor ladies were complaining about 'wildlife'. (This could've meant the groundhog that lived in the hill our house was on, they seemed offended by it's presence, so who knows.) So dutifully (cuz our landlord is the nicest guy ever) I stopped putting food out.
Fast forward to last Thursday. Scott wakes me up around 8am-ish to tell me to come look out the back door. We see the cat we'd been feeding, waiting patiently for food....along with three kittens.
...she brought PERSUASION.
So I started puttng food out again and began freaking out because now we have a definate cat problem that will get worse as they grow up (not to mention the amounts of other kittens the momma cat can churn out in the meantime). I made a plan to go rent some safe-trap cages from the Humane Society and trapping mommy and babies and at the very least getting them spayed/neutered and re-releasing them into the great outdoors. We haven't done that yet unfortunately, as the 4th of July holiday shut practically every business down.
So anyway...I'm feeding the cat and her kittens and I notice one calico isn't quite as feral as her siblings. She hangs around really close to the house and doesn't take off nearly as quickly as the others when I open the door. A couple of times I got close to catching her by hand (Scott even touched her once before she bolted) but alas she was too quick and would get away. I had been worried that she was sick due to her inactivity in comparison to her siblings, and because she was so much smaller than they were.
Then today, our landlord comes to mow the lawn, and of course I tell him the situation with the cats. About an hour later, Scott rushes into the house and tells me that our landlord caught one O_O Lo and behold, it's the calico.
So I take her inside, and set her up in Philo's cat carrier since it's like a nice little kitty condo for something her size. She let me pick her up a few times but she was absolutely terrified and managed to let out a few hisses when I was just looking in on her.
So now here's the dillemma I'm facing. In all practicallity we're probably going to have to take her to a shelter and hope she gets adopted. I'm not sure if our landlord would let us have two cats, despite the fact that he said we could keep her here for a few weeks to socialize her and get her friendly towards humans. Unfortunately, after taking her to the vet and naming her (the vet wanted a name for her records and so I threw out "Bagel". T_T) I'm getting pretty attached to her >.>
Hopefully our landlord, after going over some fine details and maybe getting Bagel declawed among other things, will let us keep her. She's so tiny, and her momma is tiny so she won't be a very big cat. Probably smaller than Philo, and he's already pretty small..
I dunno....anyone want a cat? If I can't keep her I'd at least like to know she's going to a good home.
Oh and...we still plan on catching Mommacat and Bagel's two siblings. Not sure if I'll have the heart to socialize three more cats that I just have to give up, but I'll try. They're just too cute to leave to the elements and wild animals and rabies.
Oh yeah and...feral kittens tame up reallllllly fast. O_O At least, Bagel did. She's still a little jumpy with sudden movements, but she was cuddling against my neck while I held her and falling asleep in my hands by the fifth time I'd picked her up.
Anyway, under the cut you will find my screenshots from the game (not resized, sorry. I was being lazy) and my second interesting story of the day.
My character, Narlafayn of course. It's so refreshing to be able to make her how I want her to look. :D
Narlafayn's hubbyhubhunkahunka burnin love Terebel. Made him for Scott to play, but he decided he wanted to play a mage instead.
and the mage, Kalline, that scott made.
ok so my second story of the day.
Since fall of last year I've been feeding this adorable stray cat outside. After awhile she was starting to get braver and more social towards me, she'd actually stick around and hold a meowing conversation with me. Unfortunately, we left the house for a month for a brief summer vacation before scott's school started up again, and so the cat wasn't getting fed and became more feral while we were gone.
We also recieved a note from our landlord reccomending that we don't start feeding the cat again because the neighbor ladies were complaining about 'wildlife'. (This could've meant the groundhog that lived in the hill our house was on, they seemed offended by it's presence, so who knows.) So dutifully (cuz our landlord is the nicest guy ever) I stopped putting food out.
Fast forward to last Thursday. Scott wakes me up around 8am-ish to tell me to come look out the back door. We see the cat we'd been feeding, waiting patiently for food....along with three kittens.
...she brought PERSUASION.
So I started puttng food out again and began freaking out because now we have a definate cat problem that will get worse as they grow up (not to mention the amounts of other kittens the momma cat can churn out in the meantime). I made a plan to go rent some safe-trap cages from the Humane Society and trapping mommy and babies and at the very least getting them spayed/neutered and re-releasing them into the great outdoors. We haven't done that yet unfortunately, as the 4th of July holiday shut practically every business down.
So anyway...I'm feeding the cat and her kittens and I notice one calico isn't quite as feral as her siblings. She hangs around really close to the house and doesn't take off nearly as quickly as the others when I open the door. A couple of times I got close to catching her by hand (Scott even touched her once before she bolted) but alas she was too quick and would get away. I had been worried that she was sick due to her inactivity in comparison to her siblings, and because she was so much smaller than they were.
Then today, our landlord comes to mow the lawn, and of course I tell him the situation with the cats. About an hour later, Scott rushes into the house and tells me that our landlord caught one O_O Lo and behold, it's the calico.
So I take her inside, and set her up in Philo's cat carrier since it's like a nice little kitty condo for something her size. She let me pick her up a few times but she was absolutely terrified and managed to let out a few hisses when I was just looking in on her.
So now here's the dillemma I'm facing. In all practicallity we're probably going to have to take her to a shelter and hope she gets adopted. I'm not sure if our landlord would let us have two cats, despite the fact that he said we could keep her here for a few weeks to socialize her and get her friendly towards humans. Unfortunately, after taking her to the vet and naming her (the vet wanted a name for her records and so I threw out "Bagel". T_T) I'm getting pretty attached to her >.>
Hopefully our landlord, after going over some fine details and maybe getting Bagel declawed among other things, will let us keep her. She's so tiny, and her momma is tiny so she won't be a very big cat. Probably smaller than Philo, and he's already pretty small..
I dunno....anyone want a cat? If I can't keep her I'd at least like to know she's going to a good home.
Oh and...we still plan on catching Mommacat and Bagel's two siblings. Not sure if I'll have the heart to socialize three more cats that I just have to give up, but I'll try. They're just too cute to leave to the elements and wild animals and rabies.
Oh yeah and...feral kittens tame up reallllllly fast. O_O At least, Bagel did. She's still a little jumpy with sudden movements, but she was cuddling against my neck while I held her and falling asleep in my hands by the fifth time I'd picked her up.