Of cats and kittens and butterfly wings...
For those of you who may not follow me on Facebook, which is probably no one, a small recap:
Rich and I adopted our kitty, Erasmas, at the beginning of March. We love him very much, and he's seriously one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Mid-April, we volunteered with a local Trap-Neuter-Release program. They dropped off a no-kill trap, and we started trying to catch the neighborhood ferals.
At the end of April, Erasmas got out and bolted. We haven't seen him since. My heart shattered into itty bitty pieces that day. I was devastated. We've done everything we can to find him and bring him home safe, but unfortunately we haven't had a 100% confirmed sighting. He is microchipped, so if he is found and taken to a vet or shelter, they will know he's ours.
Yesterday, we came home to a note on the door from the TNR lady. She needed the trap, so she had come by to pick it up.
I gave her a call this afternoon. During our chat, it came up that the program has nineteen kittens up for adoption, and she wondered if Rich and I would be willing to take one.
Originally, I had been hesitant to get another cat right away. What if Raz comes back, and they hate each other? The TNR lady told me that their rescue will take kitties back at any time.
Rich is on-board with this idea. I...I don't know how I feel. When I asked him what he thought, and he said he'd be ok with getting another kitty, I had a very strong emotional reaction. I was near tears.
We had planned to get Raz a sibling at some point in the future anyway, and I desperately miss having a kitty around, but the completely irrational part of my brain is opposed to "replacing" Raz, even though that's not what we'd be doing at all.
Now that I've typed that out, the choice is clear. I'm calling Lisa back.
Rich and I adopted our kitty, Erasmas, at the beginning of March. We love him very much, and he's seriously one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Mid-April, we volunteered with a local Trap-Neuter-Release program. They dropped off a no-kill trap, and we started trying to catch the neighborhood ferals.
At the end of April, Erasmas got out and bolted. We haven't seen him since. My heart shattered into itty bitty pieces that day. I was devastated. We've done everything we can to find him and bring him home safe, but unfortunately we haven't had a 100% confirmed sighting. He is microchipped, so if he is found and taken to a vet or shelter, they will know he's ours.
Yesterday, we came home to a note on the door from the TNR lady. She needed the trap, so she had come by to pick it up.
I gave her a call this afternoon. During our chat, it came up that the program has nineteen kittens up for adoption, and she wondered if Rich and I would be willing to take one.
Originally, I had been hesitant to get another cat right away. What if Raz comes back, and they hate each other? The TNR lady told me that their rescue will take kitties back at any time.
Rich is on-board with this idea. I...I don't know how I feel. When I asked him what he thought, and he said he'd be ok with getting another kitty, I had a very strong emotional reaction. I was near tears.
We had planned to get Raz a sibling at some point in the future anyway, and I desperately miss having a kitty around, but the completely irrational part of my brain is opposed to "replacing" Raz, even though that's not what we'd be doing at all.
Now that I've typed that out, the choice is clear. I'm calling Lisa back.