More Cat Drama

Our cat Mr. Pickles,
originally uploaded by Helen Norris.

A couple of weeks ago, we noticed that we hadn’t seen one of our cats, Mr. Pickles, for a while. That was a couple of weeks ago. Now I think we’ve accepted that Pickles isn’t coming back. As usual, I am assuming that he found a nicer home, maybe one where they give him wet food or tuna all the time. Probably has his own TV too.

So of course now we need to get a new cat. We just can’t have Tofu all by himself, although he seems to be handling it just fine. So we’ve talked about getting a new one, maybe when we get back from vacation. However, last Friday, Aisling went over to her friend Chelsea’s house, and what a surprise, she “found” a cute little kittie and brought it home. Now I got home late that night *and* there was a powercut so there really wasn’t much choice, the kittie spent the night. And the next morning, we could see it was a pretty damaged kitty, eye injury etc. By then, of course, she had named it Ginger (it’s red/orange). Anyhow, in spite of her attachment to it, we took it to the pound – it needs medical care that it can get there, and she had many tears when we dropped it off.

But we do need to adopt another cat, so now we’re in discussions about whether or not we should adopt Ginger when he’s well (at the pound, they told us it was male) or whether we should wait until we get back from vacation, or adopt a different cat. Stay tuned!