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20509. arkymalarky - 11/9/2006 4:19:48 PM I'm registering for the spring semester today. I dread it because this particular university has a weak network and system and the simplest things at other universities seem to be a major ordeal here.
I'll be taking two classes this spring, one this summer, and I'm done. 20510. arkymalarky - 11/9/2006 4:20:11 PM by system I mean administrative system 20511. thoughtful - 11/9/2006 4:23:49 PM Thanks poipual, jex and neato, and my sympathies for your losses as well.
Suicide is a really really rough one.
Not that losing any one any way is a picnic...there is no good or easy way to die. But suicide in one so young is especially tough. Some how it seems it should be preventable and yet so often it isn't ... except with hindsight. And that's the real hell of it. 20512. judithathome - 11/9/2006 10:26:01 PM Okay, I have a kitty.
It took me four hours to go pick him up, return some pillows I'd bought yesterday, get him a carrier (red suede and really nifty), a bed (white lambskin), food, cat litter and box, and toys. Not all in that order...
He's cream colored with cafe au lait ears trimmed in a darker cocoa and his nose is the same color as his dark ears with a white stripe going down the middle...white toes on cocoa feet and legs, the palest pale blue eyes in the world, and he's very, very small. He is Siamese.
Got home and set up the litter box and food bowl and turned around and he had disappeared behind the stove. Keoni stopped by to see him and after he and his partner left, I guess Albert liked their voices and came out looking for the "guys".
This is going to be so different from having a dog. But he's already purring up a storm when I hold him. 20513. thoughtful - 11/9/2006 10:43:45 PM congrats on the new family member. kitties are very different from dogs, but no less lovable. 20514. arkymalarky - 11/10/2006 12:07:25 AM I loved my Siamese (Jasper) when I was a kid. I became allergic to them after moving to AR, and he died not long after we moved here. 20515. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/10/2006 12:16:53 AM He sounds like a good lap-cat and they're the best. Is he cockeyed, vociferous and a climber?–three very typical Siamese traits. 20516. judithathome - 11/10/2006 2:25:19 AM Seems to be al three right now. I am taking him to the vet tomorrow and he may come home as Lulu...my neighbor thinks Albert is a girl. 20517. wonkers2 - 11/10/2006 6:42:03 AM The more you handle him the better. Or her. 20518. judithathome - 11/10/2006 5:09:14 PM It's hard NOT to handle him...he's on me all the time. He likes to watch TV and the computer screen. Already using the litter box and eating very well. Coming from a litter of four and being the runt, I'm sure he never got enough food.
I'm thinking of changing his name to Harley (or Lulu if he's a she) because he purrs like a motorcycle. 20519. judithathome - 11/10/2006 5:18:52 PM Okay, just talked to Keoni and Harley it is...even if it's a female. 20520. Magoseph - 11/10/2006 5:48:10 PM Better have Harley spaded--a little harlot you don't need around the house? 20521. judithathome - 11/10/2006 9:07:10 PM I will, when he's six months old. But no de-clawing! 20522. wonkers2 - 11/10/2006 9:14:44 PM What a coincidence, we had a beautiful huge Siamese cat which we named Harley. Sadly, he was flattened by a car at around age 6 in the street in front of our house. 20523. thoughtful - 11/10/2006 10:06:24 PM be sure to take pictures...they're little for such a short time. 20524. wonkers2 - 11/10/2006 11:34:04 PM We've never de-clawed our cats. But we've never figured out how to stop them from shredding our furniture. 20525. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/11/2006 12:08:27 AM De-clawing just their front paws still allows them to defend themselves and your furniture will be spared. 20526. arkymalarky - 11/11/2006 1:49:37 AM Great name, Judith! 20527. wabbit - 11/11/2006 1:51:11 AM I've taken to adopting adult cats that nobody else wants. I have three adoptees now and one dumpee (tossed out of a car in front of my house several years ago). I wouldn't trade any one of them for the world.
I've also long since decided that having cats means no special furniture. No chair or sofa is more important to me than the cats, though I have to say my cats are remarkably good about not clawing the furniture. They go to town on my large Oriental carpets, but they can't really hurt them. One of the black bed cats is a chewer; she has to taste everything and chews on plants (no poisonous plants here), candy wrappers, coins, edges of rolls of toilet paper...she is a small whackjob. I adore her.
I remember going to the Hammond Castle as a child and seeing the damaged leather chairs in the dining room. A tour guide said that Mr. Hammond allowed his cats to claw whatever they wanted. He also built a very high stone wall around part of the yard and called it the "cat garden". He didn't let the cats just wander anywhere outdoors. They had the run of the castle, but were confined to the cat garden when they wanted to be out. btw, the castle is said to be haunted by the ghosts of his cats, and he was buried with one of them.
Back in the day, I used to encourage people who wanted kittens to get two and throw out the tv. 20528. Ulgine Barrows - 11/11/2006 9:50:57 AM Better half made a huge tower of carpet and rope from a design we found on the internet. Well, huge 4 ft tall and it looks like a centerpiece, kinda, where it is placed.
It's quite ugly in our living room, but they've left the furniture alone.
The same website noted, the mistake most people make, is puttin a scratching post in an out-of-the way place.
Anal as I am, I took their advice to heart. The big ugly scrathing post is there, and my furniture is perfect.
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