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Requisite “our cat is so cute” picture
Posted by shana on Feb 12, 2009 in photo shoot
’cause it’s been a couple days:
Rohnster
Posted by shana on Feb 5, 2009 in our family
Mac has posted a photo album of Rohn’s arrival to Facebook. But you don’t have to be on Facebook to see them, you can just click here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=213543&l=36abd&id=551590472
Though the first few days were kind of rocky, all of us, Ammy included, are really starting to enjoy our new little buddy.
These are the ways in which Rohn is very much like Amarok:
- he loves feathers. loves.
- he prefers napping on the white swirly chair to napping on the couch
- he likes to take walks across my computer keyboard
- he wants you to pay attention to him all the time
- he is very smart and very clean
- he is very aware of how cool he is
And these are the ways in which he’s very different from Ammy:
- he likes people food, more than just kalamata olives and whiskey, and particularly enjoys licking the bottom of the bowl after I’m done with my cereal in the morning
- he has a habit of picking up objects in his mouth and running off with them, like, for example, ticket to ride trains, or Mac’s camera
- he likes to help us get out of bed in the morning by walking around our respective night stands and knocking things (like glasses of water) to the floor
- he knows how to answer the phone (though he has not yet learned to politely respond when I say, “is this Rohn??”)**
- his vertical jump is only at about one foot. We’ll work on that.
Enjoy the pictures. More to come.
** true story. I’d seen him chewing on Mac’s phone the day before, so when the phone was answered when I called but no one said anything, I had my suspicions… I called the home phone and got Mac and sure enough, he found Rohny sitting on the floor next to an open, drooly cell phone…
‘Rok and Rohn
Posted by shana on Jan 29, 2009 in making friends
Quote from “Intro Tips,” from the kitty adoption folks:
“When the time comes to let the new cat out out of its room(do not rush–wait a week) and be sure to monitor closely, open the door to see what happens. Most likely your existing cat will hiss and growl, maybe even wail, confirming their worst fears. Unless open fighting breaks out, let them hiss as cats need to establish hierarchy and territorial rights. Even though the growling is upsetting and sounds bad, it’s okay.”
Our excitement, and the cats’, of course, overrode our desire to follow the rules and wait a week before letting them start becoming bff’s. So it’s been less than four hours, but Amarok and Rohn have already met. It went something like this:
Ammy: Meow
Rohn: Hisssss
Ammy: Meow?
Rohn: Hisssss snort
Ammy: Aw, he snorted! That’s so cute!
Rohn: snort hissssss snort snort
Ammy: do you like feathers? I do.
Rohn: hissss growl growl growl snort
Ammy: (to Mac) what’s with this guy?
Rohn: hisssss
Radiator: hissssss
Rohn: snort
Deciding that was progress enough for one day, I returned Rohn to his room where he is now taking a snooze next to me on the bed. Amarok is reportedly laying outside the closed door purring like crazy. Best. Present. Ever.
(Apparently no one told Amarok he was supposed to feel threatened.)
peeking under the door
a little buddy of one’s own
Posted by shana on Jan 29, 2009 in our family
This is Amarok:
He is our cat and we love him very, very much. He is sitting in our Ticket to Ride box, which is open because Mac and I are playing.
Amarok likes to watch us play Ticket to Ride… well, he did at first. The little plastic train stations were fun to knock off the table…
… but it got old, and fast. Ticket to Ride is no game for a cat! Amarok wanted us to play with him!
And we do, of course. We don’t play Ticket to Ride with just each other ALL the time. We play with Amarok, with toy mice and dead leaves and bottle caps and anything that slides across the wood floor, and we even made our very own line of “feathers tied to yarn tied to a stick” toys, about which Amarok is simply gaga. But for all our train stations to knock off tables and furry toy mice and feathers on sticks, we’re forever dropping the ball in one area: we’re not cats. What Amarok needs most of all, we’ve decided, is a little buddy of his own.
Enter Julius.
In the past couple weeks, Mac has spent countless hours on the phone making friends with the kitty adoption folks, and the two of us have met several adoptable kitties, discussing with Amarok at length after each visit the various merits of each. After much deliberation and lots of listening to our hearts and guts, we picked one.
Active but cuddly, discerning but friendly, wise for his young age but light-hearted at the same time, Julius seems to be the complete package, the most likely of all we visited to someday achieve a four foot vertical jump, and, in short, the perfect addition to our family.
We’re taking him home today.
We will christen him “Rohn” and begin the process of taking excessive photos/videos and determining his favorite color feather for the new feather toy we will surely be making in his honor.
Amarok is very excited. He’s just not yet sure why…
