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As of today, we have two new kitties. They are three-month-old male grey tabby kittens. They are also siblings. However, they were cursed with lame names, so please, if you have any suggestions, let us know muy pronto.

I located another pet shelter close to our place, so I decided to go by at lunch today and see what they had. I picked Danny up at his office, grabbed a quick lunch, and then headed over to the shelter. It was a madhouse. The shelter is run by volunteers and is only open four days a week. There were families with kids there, but according to the sign-up sheet, everyone had come in to look at dogs. When they called our names, a volunteer took us to the cat area. We saw the kittens first and then moved on to the older kitties. There weren’t really any that I was crazy about, but there were plenty of sweet kitties to choose from. We went back to the kitten area to play with some of the babies. There was a cage with four grey kittens - two male and two female. I picked up one of the males and he went limp in my arms. They had all been in a foster home and were used to being handled. A volunteer then told us that the females had been adopted and the new owner would be back to get them later.

This is when I knew I had to make a decision. I really wanted to get two older cats that were either siblings or had grown up together. I hadn’t been able to find any in this situation either because the pair had been split up or the shelter wasn’t aware of which cats arrived together. I had found some really sweet older cats, but I was worried that randomly picking two older cats to socialize might be risky because they might fight all of the time.

Here was my chance to get two young siblings who obviously enjoyed each others company. After telling Danny my plan, we decided to adopt the two male kittens. A volunteer told us that since they were both siblings, we would get a two-for-one special. Instead of paying $150 for both, we only paid $100. This included neutering, vaccinations, flea-treatment, 5lbs of kitten food, and a free vet visit. Everything except the vet visit had been completed and the cats would be ready to go home with me in an hour.

I took Danny back to work, then returned to the shelter to go over the paperwork. I had the cat carriers ready to go and the volunteers gave me some towels for the cats to snuggle in while I took them home. I loaded up the kitties and drove them home. I placed the carriers so that they could see one another. They didn’t cry until we were almost to the house. I set up all of their stuff in our bathroom and left them alone to get used to their new surroundings. I checked on them now and then and, after a couple of hours, they were snuggled up on the counter together purring away.

When Danny got home, we drove over to petco to get them some toys. Although they are probably content to play with each other, we wanted to get them some kitty toys so they would know that those were for biting, not our hands.

When we got home, we set them free to explore the living room. They raced all over the place. They have been too hyper to cuddle yet tonight, but Danny and I have had fun wearing them out with their new fishing rod cat toy. They are both quite acrobatic although they need to work on their depth perception as they’re racing around corners.

The best discovery of all is that they both know how to use the litterbox. Hallelujah!

Oh yeah, cat names…help, please!

My commuter train has been promoting this weekend as the trains for tots toy drive. To kick it off, there was an event at the train station in SF yesterday at 5pm. When I got there after work, they were passing out cookies, had a band playing, and Mr. and Mrs. Claus were in attendance. Was is cheesy? Yes. Was it fun? Yep. They also had the Urban Dog Walkers club there with canines in costume.
The other thing to happen was that they decorated one of the commuter trains, added some extra cars, and sent it down the peninsula stopping at different stations along the way. While at the station, santa and his helpers sang christmas carols, posed for pictures, and picked up toys for the toy drive. They arrived at our station at 7pm tonight. Since we live so close to the station, Danny and I walked over there to see what they’d done to dress up a plain old gray commuter train. I can’t say that it was miraculous, but it was fun to just wander around and check out all of the wide-eyed little kids clambering to the guardrail to say hi to santa and his gang. It wasn’t as cold tonight as it’s been lately, so we hung out for the 20 minute stop until the train moved on to the next station.

I just found out that Ted and his wife Lizzie had a baby girl last night around 6:30pm CT. She is Hazel Caroline and is 7 lbs and 15 oz, 22 inches long.

I’m so excited! He is my first good friend who has had a child. Everything is fine. She has all of her fingers and toes and is gorgeous. See for yourself.



Danny’s comment: Cool! Ted spawn.