Reporter Kitteh haz no comment.
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Meet Natasha, manic seal-point Siamese, 12-week old skinny, spidery kitty with a voice that cuts through wood and concrete, and an insatiable need to be in your lap right now. And April, 1-year old shelter kitty, thrown by some heartless bastard from a moving car and rescued by a nearby animal hospital. She’s scarred by both the injuries she suffered from her abandonment and from God only knows what kind of abuse. This longhaired beauty desperately craves affection, but is wary and afraid. She dislikes being held, and won’t sit in anyone’s lap; if I try to hold her front paws (a necessity as I clip all my cats’ claws every two weeks), or groom and brush her luxuriant tail, she whirls and sinks her teeth into my hand as a warning. It’s going to take a lot of love and patience to get her to trust us to the point where I can handle her as easily as I can Isabel the Mellow and Natasha the Needy, but she’s already come far—I was able to comb enough tangled hair from her coat to build another complete cat, she’s stopped vomiting at the slightest stress, she loves having her belly rubbed and chin scratched, and she and Natasha get along just fine. Continued…
Prayer at church Sunday: Oh, Lord, please restore my sense of humor. Too much concentration upon politics recently, like a steady diet of Romaine lettuce, has left me bitter and cynical. Time to switch gears.