FREEDOM!

Well, yesterday one of the clients from Renie's clinic came and took Diogenes away! WHOO-HOO! I am SO happy!! I can finally have my house back and not have to worry about getting jumped every five seconds. Diogenes is going to live with a woman and a female kitten who's a week older than him. The lady who took him said her cat is as hyper as Diogenes! So they should have fun playing together.

Unfortunately today had a little bit of a rough spot in it. Renie drove through KFC for lunch and took me with. Well, when we get home she always takes in her purse and whatever else, then comes back for me. But today she totally forgot me! For about half an hour!!! I was SO MAD....I thought I might have to stay out there overnight! Even though I was mad, I was so relieved to be inside that I couldn't help headbutting her and swirling around her legs like crazy. :)

Well, back to watching dove out the back window...bye!

Borscht

Quick Entry

Hi everyone -

I've been in hiding from Diogenes for quite a while now, which is why I haven't written in a long time. At first I wanted to be friends with him, but he is TOO CRAZY! I think he has a mental disorder. ha ha He literally can't sit still for one second unless he's asleep. Tish mainly ignores him and hides when she's in, and Natalie all-out attacks him, so I get stuck with him the most since I'm long-suffering and too nice for my own good. Whenever he's around he relentlessly attacks me and jumps in my face. It's SO irritating! He loves my tail floof too. I just keep turning my head away until I finally have to get up and hide somewhere. ONCE in a while we actually play, but usually he's too hyper to even focus on that. So I mainly try to avoid him. :) Well, back into hiding!

Borscht the Oppressed

He Has Emerged

Well yesterday Renie took Diogenes to the clinic for a recheck and the doctor said he could come out and be with me now. At first I was excited and of course as soon as he was set down outside the bathroom I followed him everywhere with my nose stuck to him. It turns out however that so far he's more interested in exploring the house than in me! Foolish kitten! So I hid under the bed in a huff for a while. He slept with me in my bathroom last night on a separate tier of the cat tower. He's definitely not as sociable as Zinc was!

Today he's been walking around the house more and pouncing on various objects. I've been following him and trying to start up some play, but he's still not that interested. It's not like he's afraid of me or DISlikes me, because he'll walk up and rub on me and walk back and forth underneath me. Sometimes he rears up and boxes me a little, but then he just goes off on his own. It's like his mind is always somewhere else. Well, maybe he'll warm up with time. Then we can play a lot and I can teach him everything I know about being awesome. ;)

Oh, and we match! He's over his upper respiratory illness, but his left eye is cloudy still. The doctor said it's probably edema from his illness and it may or may not go away.

KITTEN ALERT!!!!

Tuesday night I could tell something was up. Travis got home early from work and then went out again to Petsmart (I heard him talking to Renie on the phone about it). That's when I started getting suspicious. I knew we cats didn't need anything and I was pretty sure the fish were taken care of too. While he was still gone Renie came home carrying a small box and even though I couldn't see into it I was pretty sure there was a kitten in there, knowing her. Well she went straight to the front bathroom with it and wouldn't let me in. She was in there for a while and when Travis came home he brought temporary litterboxes and a bag of kitten food. Then I knew I was right! :)

From what I've overheard, this kitten was brought in by a client at Renie's work. The client found it in her yard and it was sick. She wanted it to get taken care of but she couldn't keep it. Well the client paid for it's medicine and stuff, and Renie said she would foster it after that. So it came home with her. I caught a glimpse of it yesterday when Renie went in the bathroom to give it medicine. It's about 6 weeks old and it's a short haired black kitten. I couldn't see from where I was, but Renie says it's a male. This will be our third black foster in a row! There was Zinc, "4th Avenue Kitten", and now this one.

Anyway, it looks in pretty bad shape. It's fur isn't very good, it's belly is hard and it's third eyelids are red and swollen. Renie says when it first got here, the inside of it's regular eyelids were so swollen they were turning inside out! So I guess it already looks better than it did on Tuesday. So...I can't wait to play with it when it gets better!!!! I can teach him all about the house and show him how to be manly like me. :) For now I just content myself with supervising the bottom crack of the door throughout the day.

Talk to you later! Borscht

Clobbered!

Yesterday morning when Renie woke up she stretched and clobbered me with her arm because I was sleeping above her on her pillow. Then later that day she was sitting on the couch and I was sitting by her legs, and she clobbered me with one of her legs when she uncrossed them. :( Not to mention that a few days ago she was looking in the fridge and I came and sat right behind her on the floor, and she stepped back right onto my tiny paw! :(

Hola

First of all, look at this animal:

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/11/d ispute-the-cut.html

Travis says that's what it would look like if me and a "gray" alien had a baby. ha ha

Anywho, today I went to the clinic with Renie for her weekly work meeting. It was pretty okay. I let several people pet me without growling, but as more people showed up I got pretty tense and just wanted to curl up in Renie's lap. There were only two dogs there, the lab and one of Renie's co-workers' dogs who also got shaved recently. After the meeting we drove through at the bank to drop off Renie's check. Pretty soon my owners are going to go eat lunch. For now we're just hanging around.

Talk to you later! From Borscht

Many an Outing

Saturday AND Monday nights I got to drive through for dinner with Renie. Saturday Travis was working, then he got sick so Monday night Renie took me to drive through and bring food back for both of them. It was a place she's never taken me before, called "Long John Silvers", and it smelled REEEAAALLLLYYY good. I kept sitting up in the seat and trying to stick my nose in the bag.

Then Tuesday night my owner's regular appointment was canceled, so we went to Travis' parents house. While they watched some videos, I explored the rest of the house. I always want to see upstairs because it's the one place they never let me go, so I haven't gotten to sniff it out yet!! I made it all the way into the master bedroom this time but Renie saw the end of my leash sticking out the doorway and caught me. :(

Well, I'm going to check out my groups now so I'll talk to you later! From Borscht

An Evening in the Park

Well my owners got a wild hair and tonight at like 9 o'clock they decided to go for "soda and a drive" and brought me with. They took me to the "gateway park", which is right on the Colorado River. Since it was pretty late, not many people were around so that was nice for me. There was a slight breeze, but not enough to bother me. We walked from the parking lot to a little ramada thing and sat there for a while, then walked down to the amphitheater. I checked out a few spots there and walked around on the stage some. An "earwig" as Renie called it, crawled close to her foot and she didn't like it so we left. I'd never seen one of those before. It's brown and long and has pincher things on one end.

On the way back to the truck we saw that a stray cat had taken my spot on the ramada table. It was a gray tabby. It looked in pretty good shape for a stray, but of course I still felt bad for it. It was scared of my owners so it didn't let us get very close. We also saw some other "wildlife", like a cockroach, a cricket, and what Renie called a "stinkbug", which is a black beetle. They would have been fun to chase around if I was more comfortable in those surroundings. The main thing that bothered me is that a bridge runs over part of the park, and vehicles were whizzing above us. It kind of concerned me when we were near it. But we made it back to the truck safe and sound. On the drive back we also saw a fat chihuahua dog running around loose. I just can't imagine being out there on my own without my people! I would miss them, and who would feed me?? I would be forced to EAT birds and stuff. ECK!

Well I'm going to rest for a while. Bye for now! Borscht

Flyin' Fish, Catman!

Two nights ago my owners took me to Petsmart to buy a collar for Tish. By the way, this isn't the time I mentioned before, it's now the second time because Tish loses her collars that fast. :) Anyway, they were walking me along the fish wall when Renie suddenly saw a movement on the ground out of the corner of her eye. I didn't notice it because I was still a little loopy from my sedatives the day before. It turns out, there was a tiny fish on the ground, flopping around!! It was a white cloud, which is one of the kinds my owners have here at the house. Renie was holding me so Travis quickly picked up the fish as carefully as he could and plopped it back in the appropriate tank. It kind of just crashed into the bottom and stayed there gasping for a while. I felt bad for it! Just imagine what it feels like to be stuck getting a bath, and times that by about a million - being OUT of the water must feel like that to a fish. Eventually it got up and started swimming erratically, then seemed to be okay. Hopefully it'll live! Who knows how long it had been on the ground!

So like I said I was still a little crazy from my drugs the day before, and Petsmart was kind of overwhelming as a result. I was really twitchy and I couldn't hold still. I usually just lay in my owner's arms, but I kept climbing up on Renie's shoulders and walking back and forth across them. I felt really jittery but I also had a hard time keeping my eyes open. Renie didn't realize until we got there how doped up I still was. ha ha It made me kind of grumpy so I kept giving little growls, but at the same time whenever people came up to ooh and aah over me I wanted to headbutt them like crazy! It was all very disconcerting. So just remember not to go anywhere the day after going under. :)

Well, talk to you later! From Borscht

Shavey Goodness

As you can tell from the title, I got shaved today. Practically down to the skin! Renie always has her co-workers use a number 40 blade, which I've come to realize means it shaves really close. I was NOT happy when she brought me in the morning. I jumped off of her shoulder and ran over to my kennel and jumped up into it. Everyone thinks it's so cute but I just want to get away from them so they leave me alone! Crazy people. ANYway, I did my best to make things difficult (even though I always feel better after a shave). I screamed at the top of my lungs and writhed like the dickens. One tech had Catheter Skills and got one in a vein in my back leg despite my undulations, but it came out as they were taping it down. Score one for me! Eventually they gave me a sedative, which never work well for me. I basically continue to scream and writhe but with my third eyelids partially up. :) The same tech later got a catheter in my other leg and they gave me some heavier drugs which knocked me right out. When I came to I was nekkid! I could literally feel a draft which was previously blocked out by my super-dense fur.

What?!?! Renie just told me that while I was still out right after the shave, everyone took the opportunity to KISS my face and HUG me and TAKE PICTURES of them holding me and kissing me. The shame and humiliation! These pictures must never see the light of day....I have a reputation to uphold!! And did Renie do anything to help me? No, she was actually IN some of the pictures, not to mention that she helped hold me down for all the pre-shave stuff. UGH! I will eventually deign to forgive her, but it won't be tonight!!!!