I went and got the five Sweet Home cats Saturday afternoon.
I had believed I would be picking up five young black cats that she could handle enough to get into a crate.
She had indeed caught by hand four black cats, looks like from two different litters. But in a blue soft shell carrier I could not see into, was the fifth cat.
Autumn, a muted torti.
The lady said they all got along, since all were outside cats born to same mother at different times.
So I faithfully believed her, and being too lazy to set up a cage in the garage, turned them loose in the bathroom, to spend a day and a half more comfortably than in traps.
Big mistake. I woke up about 1:00 a.m. Saturday night to a major cat fight going on in the bathroom. I got up in a panicked flash and went in. Things in the bathroom are in disarray. The torti, Miss Autumn, is on the counter attacking the smallest of the blacks who is cowering, terrified, in the sink.
She didn't stop when I tried to intervene either.
I threw a towel over the terrified black kitten, to protect her. Autumn was now swinging at me. I got all the black ones into traps and out to the garage. After which, Miss Autumn turned into the sweetest cat on earth. Great. Tame. Overly affectionate. And VERY VERY loud.
The rest of the night she meowed, til like 6:00 in the morning, when I finally got a bit of sleep.
Last night, same thing. Quiet all day, because she was sleeping. But the moment I was in bed, omg.
I haven't slept much by today. On the way to the clinic, in the car, it was mind curdling yowls, like I was killing her. When I pick them up, in just over an hour, I"m hoping she's still under the influence of anesthesia enough to give me a quiet drive to Sweet Home, where she gets handed off to her people.
Autumn is extremely lovable. And very very loud. What can I say.
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| Sweet Loud Autumn |
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| Since the lady was naming them last second, after I picked them up, the rest are named Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer. |
I'm too sleepy to have anything else to say.
It's a pity that didn't go as smoothly as it could have, but the job is now done.
ReplyDeleteYikes. Autumn is quite the cat.
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