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I actually thought about Maple as a name if it's a girl and if I keep it :)My other two cats are Charlie and Nala. Charlie is 12 and Nala is 8. I don't know what I'll do without Charlie. Nala... Take her or leave her, lol. She's a brat. I love her, but she's no Charlie.
I had a manx cat named Mabel. She was a sweetie. I miss her. :(
You now belong to the kitten...congratulations, you are blessed. Greyhounds are great to, I mean a dog that can run 40mph but prefers to sleep on the couch with his head in your lap is a wonderful animal.Just introduce the dog and the new kitten...one the kitten teaches the dog to be his/her bed all will be well.
Dawn wrote: "I actually thought about Maple as a name if it's a girl and if I keep it :)My other two cats are Charlie and Nala. Charlie is 12 and Nala is 8. I don't know what I'll do without Charlie. Nala... ..."
It took us a good two weeks to name Maple. But the name totally suits her. She's from Aylmer, Quebec (land of Maple trees and maple syrup.) She is tortoise in colour with one definitely mapley-coloured toe on her right front paw. She also has one perennially completely white and rather thick whisker while all the others are black. It's so cute and so distinctive. It fell out once and promptly grew back.
You can see her and her whisker here.
awwww!
She is a cutey. We got her from a family that had a litter of eight or nine kittens. Maple just kept coming back to us while we visited so we figured she had to come with us. Hard to believe she is 14 years old now (she was 10 in the picture.)
I just thought Maple was a cute name, it doesn't really fit this kitten. It's grey and stripey... And I still can't tell if it's a boy or a girl, I looked at pictures online but I keep changing my mind.Here's a picture of me and the kitty.. Please excuse my appearance, it was raining and cold, my hair is all frizztastic, and I didn't know I was being photographed:
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Now you all see why I couldn't just abandon it when it hopped along after me when I tried to walk away.*sigh*
Damn it. I got kittens on the brain. All I want to do is leave work so I can go home and see how it's doing. Lay on the floor and let it crawl all over me, purring and cuddling...
Kittens.
Why do they have to be so fricken cute?
:)aaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww!
Everything it does is cute. Bath time? Cute. Play time? OMG cute. It's even cute when it hops in it's little litter box and meticulously buries it's poo. And I don't even want to think about stretches and yawns.
Nicki wrote: "That reminds me, for those of you who haven't seen it doing the rounds of social media, meet the cutest baby wombat in the WORLD.https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=..."
OMG!! Soooooo freaking cute!!
Well, it won't be long before it will be quite obvious if it's a boy. I had a tabby cat looked almost just like that. I called her "M" cause it's written on her forehead. Haha She had a spotted tummy. Does yours? We'll all be looking forward to your new kitten stories. :)
Since she was abandoned if it's a she maybe you should call her, Miss Peregrine. You know for the abandoned children.
I have a feeling J will be naming her, not me. He's very particular about names :P
Just the opposite here, my wife, son and daughter named all our pets (except for on cat that left...maybe she didn't like her name????).
Leslie wrote: "Well, it won't be long before it will be quite obvious if it's a boy. I had a tabby cat looked almost just like that. I called her "M" cause it's written on her forehead. Haha She had a spotted tu..."Majin Kitty!
;)
My kitties: (from top to bottom) Moony, Padfoot and Nox:
If anyone's interested, I finally posted my PhillyCon pics from June onto my Facebook. Here's the link. (I made it public, so everyone should be able to see them): https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...
colleen the contrarian ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: "My kitties: (from top to bottom) Moony, Padfoot and Nox:"
awwwwww
Okay. First off... I LOVE the names! And Mooney and Padfoot are so cute! I have a special love for black and white cats. I've had two, and they were by far my favorite cats, before our boys of course. And second... Or third... My boys are so jealous of your tree house. We have the single ones. And a sort of taller one but not like that. Maybe some day.
Moony and Padfoot are from the same litter, so I often call them "the twins". I think this is one of the few times all three were on the tree at the same time. :>
My cats would love that tree... but the Boy wouldn't approve. We already have more cat furniture than human furniture.
I think the tree was one of the first pieces of new furniture we bought when we moved into the house.
Nicki, that sentence evokes such imagery for me!We're dog people, but I often take care of my neighbours cats. She once had five. Sadly, we lost two this past year and are now down to three. I didn't grow up with cats, so don't understand their mysterious ways as many of you do, but I'm becoming quite fond of the little girls and guy. Hers are quite agile, except when they've had a good feed of catnip. I can see the three rolling and desperately scratching to hold on to the tree!
Thanks. You gave me such a laugh!
Can I use this place to rant for a while?I have this colleague who is a pain in the ass!! Like, big time! He is struggling with himself psychically, and I understand that maybe that causes him to be snappy, but please go see a shrink and figure it out? I cannot stand walking around on tiptoes, because he might yell at everything I say or do! He somehow takes up everything I say as a personal insult to him. Please, you are not even worth so much attention!! It's not fair that I should be the one to be constantly watching my moves and words, because he is so damn unreasonable. And it's been months. Go do something about it already!!!! ARGH!
So then I went home all mad and it started to rain real hard and of course I was on my bicycle and soaked. But then I took a nice hot bath and calmed down. I think I will just refrain from talking to him for a while unless it is really necessary. And hope that he will somehow get himself back together. SOON!
Ok, so that is out of my system! Back to the pets topic!
I got two lovely rabbits. Both are very very unintelligent, but it is great to watch them jump around and play with each other :) (By the way I named them Buffy and Faith. I've got two bunny vampire slayers ;) )
Was it Anna on Buffy who was afraid of Bunnies?
Elise, maybe you need to talk to your HR if its that bad, and that pointedly directed at you? That's not acceptable behavior.
Elise wrote: "Can I use this place to rant for a while?I have this colleague who is a pain in the ass!! Like, big time! He is struggling with himself psychically, and I understand that maybe that causes him to..."
Hope it gets well soon!
Becky wrote: "Elise, maybe you need to talk to your HR if its that bad, and that pointedly directed at you? That's not acceptable behavior."They know about the situation, unfortunately. But if it doesn't quiet down again I will pressure the matter further.
Thanks :)
In my head I have somehow gotten Brandon Sanderson lodged as Sandon Branderson...
Makes perfect sense to me...
Well, at least I make sense to someone... :>
...then again I'm a little odd.:)
Good news... Half day at work today, woooooooooooooooo!Bad news... Took the half day so that I'd have time to scrub my filthy house down and grocery shop in preparation of hosting a board game day tomorrow. Oh, and make a bunch of candles too. I decided I needed a new hobby, so now I make candles in mason jars. Adulthood...
I was trying to figure out if I'd rather be at work or at home cleaning, and I honestly couldn't decide. I think I'm leaning towards cleaning though :P
Also! The kitten is a girl, we named her Quinn (we wanted Harley as in Harley Quinn, but Harley is too close to Charlie so we went with Quinn). She's healthy, no feline leukemia.. I think we are going to keep her... :)
You know you're going to keep her.
I'm happy for you. :)And Quinn too. ;)
Adorable name, BTW. I agree, I like Quinn more than Harley, but you can call her Harley Quinn when she gets into trouble. Lol.
Quinn works better for nicknames too. I like to be able to add -ie to pets names, because I'm lame like that. I like nicknames.My dog Rook... I always call him Rookie, Rick, or Rickie. Never Rook. Mostly Rookie.
Nala is Nalie, Nals, Nala-bear...
Charlie is Charles, Charlie-bear, Charles Montgomery Burns.. I dunno, he's a hard one. Mostly he's just Charlie because it already ends in -ie.
Quinn has already become Quinnie. I'm sure I'll attach "bear" to that as well, I do with the other cats for whatever reason. Quinnie-bear :)
I like the name Quinn, too. And I like the character. You'll have to get another cat so he can be the Joker.
Dawn wrote: "Quinn works better for nicknames too. I like to be able to add -ie to pets names, because I'm lame like that. I like nicknames.My dog Rook... I always call him Rookie, Rick, or Rickie. Never Rook..."
:D
i do that, too. Benji is almost never Benji. He's Benji-bear or pooka. His full name is Lord Benjamin Joseph Puppytons.
colleen the contrarian ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: "How long would it take you to read Game of Thrones: https://blog.blinkboxbooks.com/how-lo..."My Results:
You could read the entire Game of Thrones collection in 73 days. (351 days faster than the average person!)
Your reading speed is 411 words per minute.
If you read for 1 hour each day,
you could get through 91 books per year
(based on the average length of a bestseller - 99,390 words).
LOL, I'm a slow reader. I always knew that. I could read faster, but my comprehension goes way down. I get reading ADD if I try to go too fast, and I don't really pay attention.So... my reading speed is 285 words per minute.
If I read for 1.5 hours each day, I could get through 94 books in a year.
I could read the entire GoT series in 70 days. Which seems accurate, seeing as though I re-read it before Dance and it took about 2 months.
Surprising that's 354 days faster (according to the test) than the average person... I guess people just can't commit to more than 10 - 30 minutes of reading a day? I always read 1.5 hours if not more.. An hour during my lunch break and a half hour or more before bed. Plus unscheduled evening reading of up to 2 hours, but that's not every day.
You could read the entire Game of Thrones collection in 79 days. (345 days faster than the average person!)Your reading speed is 252 words per minute.
If you read for 1h 30 min each day, you could get through 83 books per year.
colleen the contrarian ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: "You could read the entire Game of Thrones collection in 79 days. (345 days faster than the average person!)Your reading speed is 252 words per minute.
If you read for 1h 30 min each day, you cou..."
We have the same reading speed, but mine said finish in 119 days. Is that because I chose 1 hour a day?
Jackie wrote: "We have the same reading speed, but mine said finish in 119 days. Is that because I chose 1 hour a day? "Probably, yeah. Mine was originally 70s days when I said I read for an hour and 45 minutes instead of an hour, so time is definitely a factor.
I was wondering. They have me at this huge speed but says that it would take me 3 days more to read GoT than Dawn.
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In other news, my four-year old was out exploring with his friends and they found a dead bird so we had to have an impromptu burial for it just before bedtime last night. Why do I get the gross tasks?