Two weeks ago we got two kittens. I really don’t like pets. I don’t believe the saying better to have
loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
With pets it’s just easier to have never loved….or fed or watered or
worried over them at all. But against
the nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach I agreed to take two kittens. The only thing that won over my dislike for
pets was the pure hatred and rage I feel for mice. We have killed more mice in our house in the
last 4 months than the entire (almost) 10 years we’ve lived there. Having one chew on the carpet in Cade’s door
way was the last straw. Jay had tried every
kind of trap and poison available. He
had also crawled under the house to make sure there wasn’t a nest. He had wrapped and stuffed everything place
imaginable with steel wool. The only
thing left in our arsenal was to get a cat that would hopefully scare them off.
Hence the addition of Blackie, Camryn’s cat and Lucy, Cade’s
cat to our little family. Cade has taken
to these things more than I expected him to.
Camryn of course is nuts about Blackie and therefore Blackie is a rather
nervous creature. Usually one glimpse of
Camryn will send him scattering for cover.
I call him a boy but I’m not 100% sure Blackie is a boy...time will tell
on that.
Yesterday morning Cade went out to feed them like normal and
came inside rather panicked. There was
blood in the litter box. I went to
inspect it and realized one of them had probably got into mouse poison. Just as luck would have it Lucy pooped about
then and I got to take a good look at that.
There wasn’t any blood so I figured she was in the clear. After some frantic moments Jay finally
decided to load them up and keep them in the greenhouse for the day. He would call the vet to see if there was
anything that could be done about it. I
really wasn’t too nervous about it. I
don’t want anything to suffer but I felt like I wasn’t beside myself or
anything. That was until I thought about
the texts I sent Jay yesterday morning. Just to avoid confusion I am the blue....like that wasn't obvious.
Then, even though I was having a wild, wild day at work I
found the time to text Jay again in the afternoon. He didn't respond to my first one so I sent him the second one a little later. He wasn't trying to teach or anything....
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