ohmigosh.

[lex]

Please excuse the crappy cell phone pictures! I AM TOO EXCITED TO FIND A REAL CAMERA.

There were no hitches. I got there, I filled out paperwork, they called the owner of my house (Dad, lololol) and made sure I was allowed to have a cat, they gave me her medical records, and I was off with a bag of cat food. They put her in her carrier before I got to snuggle her, so against my better thinking I let her out in the car (windows up, doors locked, etc.) and oh gosh she was such a sweetie right away. She explored the car quietly, listened to boundaries when I told her not to go near my feet, and spent the ride home curled up behind my seat. Then back in the carrier and into the house!

I am a firm believer in slow introductions, so we started in just the bathroom. I let Dad and my brother say hello, and then they cleared out, and once she was calm we expanded into the hallway and my room. I think it'll stay this space for now - I want her to find this part of the house to be her safe space. She's got food, water, litter... I need to work out steps for getting on and off the bed, it's a bit high, but she's getting around just fine.

I can't move two steps without her staring up at me mournfully. We had cuddles on the bed and I found out that she gives teeny love nibbles and likes to put her paw on my face. She listens to "no" so well that I think I need to be very careful about using it. She's on my bed now, washing herself, and when the neighbors make noise she freezes - and all I have to do is look over and say something reassuring and she'll look over at me with that cat-look of "well duh, I knew that all along, I wasn't freaked out at all, silly human" and go back to washing.

NOSTALGIAAAAA~~

Comments

[northern]

Yay kitty!

[swordage]

\o/ It's a kitty!

[hellkitty]

Oh that's WONDERFUL!!! I'm so happy for you! And Nostalgia. And she is just facemeltingly adorable. I'm so glad you fought for her!

(And I shall stop abusing exclamation points. :C)

[swordage]

I am so glad too! Oh gosh, it's all kind of good things. Also scary things. I have a whole new set of things to freak out about! I think I need to adjust as much as she does. XD It's so incredible to look over and see her next to me. It's surreal. I keep expecting the shelter to call and be like NO WE CHANGED OUR MINDS, YOU CAN'T HAVE HER.

[senmut]

She is such a pretty thing! Bast's own daughter...

Congratulations to both of you.

[swordage]

Thank you so much! She is so lovely. I wish my phone could capture the color of her eyes, beautiful gold fading to green around her pupils - she's utterly endearing.

[ex_spacehussy924]

SHE IS SO ASTONISHINGLY BEAUTIFUL. And tiny, omg. I'd forgotten you said she didn't have a tail - why does that make her even more precious?? D:

[swordage]

SHE IS SO PRECIOUS

Your boys are tubby (yes, even Molly), so I think you'd die at how slender she is. She's such a little lady~~