Stupid Universe...
Wife: *thinking of another cat to keep Manny company*
Me: *also thinking of another cat to keep Manny company*
UNIVERSE: *rubbing galaxy-sized hands together and sneering*
UNIVERSE: "Muahahahahaha..."
Me & Wife: "WTF was that?!?"
UNIVERSE: "Abracabadger!!!!" *poof*
TinyBlackKitten: "mew?"
So yes. The Universe, in one of its stranger revolutions, has seen fit to hork up a kitten unto us. Violently, in fact; this particular kitten was sprung forth from a moving car.
Let me explain.
My wife and I arrived home from the Wheatland Music Festival Sunday evening, tired and fairly dirty; looking forward to nothing more than a hot shower and a relaxing evening before staring back to work/school on Monday. As we unpacked the cars, our upstairs neighbor rushed down her stairs.
"I am SO GLAD you guys are back!" she shouted, thrusting forth the aforementioned TinyBlackKitten. "You guys are looking for another cat, right?"
This kitten is probably a month and a half old, and - as we discovered today to the tune of $155 - has mites and fleas. It gets better - we're not sure if TinyBlackKitten has Feline Leukemia or FIV yet, so she's been living in our tiny bathroom for the past couple of days. This is where she'll be living for the next ten days until we get rid of the fleas and mites.
Our cat, Manny, has been camped out in front of the bathroom door ever since TinyBlackKitten arrived, and is getting increasingly jealous. He doesn't have anything to worry about, as we're not even sure we're able to keep TinyBlackKitten because of the financial problem (vet bills; spaying; declawing; shots; etc.).
Why, then, are we doing this? Blame us being decent people with oversized hearts when it comes to animals. This kitten was thrown from a moving car, and our neighbor - whose intentions were admirable - decided she couldn't keep the kitten and handed her off to us. Currently we're researching our options, including no-kill shelters. This came completely out of the blue; we had been looking into adopting a cat from Crash's Landing. Anybody reading this is welcome to help, either financially or by presenting some options.
Oh, and Universe? Piss right off, won't you?
UPDATE: TinyBlackKitten has tested negative for Feline Leukemia and FIV. As the vet told us, "aside from the fleas and mites, she's very healthy."
We're currently looking into low cost vets for spaying and declawing.
posted by Hare @ 3:54 PM
5 Comments:
I move you name it TiBK for Tiny Black Kitten. That way, when it gets older, you can just change one letter of the name to TiBC and keep the pronunciation. It will always be a tiny creature, by D&D standards, even if it grows big for a cat.
Actually, dince we've decided to keep her, we've given her an obnoxious Celtic name (and I'm not sure I'm spelling it correctly):
Wyrd ne Mafenwye...
Wyrd - blank rune; clean slate, etc. Figured it was fitting, considering she's getting a fresh start with us.
Hee, you guys are becoming predictable.
Sgian Dubh is a good name for a little black kitten.
That, or Bloodfang.
Wyrd is actually Anglo-Saxon
Old English Wyrd is, derived from Proto-Germanic *wurþiz, Proto-Indo-European *wrti-, a verbal abstract from the root *wert- "to turn" (Latin vertere), related to the Old English verb weorþan, meaning "to grow into, to become" (compare German werden). In its literal sense, it refers to "that which turns out, that which comes to pass".
Modern English weird developed its sense from weird sisters for the three fates or Norns (Shakespeare in Macbeth has the three witches so called). They were usually portrayed as odd or uncanny in appearance, which led to the adjectival meaning (first recorded 1815).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrd
You could go for Cat Bídeach Dubh ... though that'd still be predictably Celtic.
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