Sunday, May 24, 2009

Please Meet...Flora Bobbi


A few days ago while looking out our back window I saw some kittens playing around the rubble of what is left of the burned down house. I got a bright idea in my head to capture one, since I have wanted a cat for a while now. So I borrowed a trap from our neighbor and set it up in the empty lot. Over the next couple days I caught one adult cat and something keep eating the food I left in the trap but other than that one I never caught anything else and I didn't see any kittens after that first time. Yesterday I decided to give up, either the kittens had been moved or they were too smart (too small to trigger the trap) for me. At this point we had a kitten in our future so I checked craigslist for free kitten listings. It was just our luck that the owner of a coffee shop just a few blocks from here had 9 kittens he was looking to find homes for. So, after Chance's nap yesterday we all walked over to Flora's to pick a kitty. It was no too hard to choose even though there were whites ones and grey ones and orange ones and they were all cute. The Father of the kittens had a bobbed tail and two of the little ones have a bobbed tail too. One of those was laying very peacefully on the bed the whole time we were there. That was the one for us. The man was very nice and even gave us some food and kitty litter to bring home to get us started as well as letting us borrow his cat carrier to put her in and bring her home. She has been a little shy but that is understandable, she isn't hiding under things or hissing at anyone even though Chance has been pretty loud and jumping around because he is so excited to have a kitty cat. She hasn't really met Deedle yet, we have still been keeping them apart until she gets to know us a little better and her new house. I am sure they will get along fine though after Deedle realizes we aren't going to let him terrorize her. Since I picked her out Scott got to name her and since she turned out to be a girl and we got her from a coffee shop named Flora's and she has a bobbed tail her name is Flora Bobbi. Though I think we will mostly call her Flora.

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