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There's no stripping. (Sorry.) But there's rambling, usually in the area of science, politics, pop culture, signs that are irritatingly misspelled, and religion, or anything that happens to be on my mind at the time. I post on study breaks, so that I don't go insane. Insaaaaaaaane!

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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

It's time to play - NAME .... THAT .... CAT!

I was out running last night (the first time I'd gone running since Sweetie/Cinders was killed) and we have this aluminum dish of cat food sitting beside the driveway for hungry not-really-stray cats. They're my neighbor's cats, I think, but they're always eating my cat's food so we gathered that they're hungry (I feel like an Italian mother being all, "You're-a so SKEENY!")

Last night I had seen the usual cats munching, and then I saw a wee little kitten that I hadn't seen before. I wanted to try to catch it to show Mom that we had a new visitor to our diner, and when I did, I discovered he had a big painful-looking wound on his leg, and he was limping. Since we have a cat-killing dog running loose on our property (their idiot owners think it's someone else's responsibility to keep them tied up, I guess) we couldn't leave this kitty to become dog food. So we just happened to have bought a kennel/cage-thing yesterday, in which we put a wee little litterbox and some food and water and a blanket for the night, and we took Kitty No-Name to the vet today to get his wound treated. The trip involved both poo AND barf. Nice.

Anyway, we need a name, and y'all are a creative bunch. Any ideas?

Kitty No-Name

Kitty No-Name

I'm horrible at naming pets. I'm beginning to understand why my grandma named all of her dogs Missy. (Which makes it confusing to talk about them later, since they were all black and white border collies named Missy.) I could steal from my friend brmaer and name him Bert and Ernie, just so I can utter the hilarious statement, "Bert and Ernie was one cat." Heh.