Emergency food supplies

Patiently waiting...

...but for what, I don't know.

I am stopping at two cats. No matter what.

From El Borak's Myopia

More cat pictures

Just realized that Dhaula has not received her due since I posted about her anticipated joining of the family (sort of sad that my "family" consists of me and two cats but that's another story).  Pictures are due.

1. Dhaula as a kitten; 
2. Dhaula as a kitten with Cho; 
3. Dhaula and Cho as friends crashed on the front porch climbing pole.

So there you go.  Gratuitous cat pics, just because.

A New Member of the Family

Dhaula

 

Cho was not amused but she's only two, almost still a kitten herself, and she is adjusting pretty quickly.  Here is a "pre-adjustment" picture.

Company for Cho part 2

Breeder got pictures up. I got the pick of the litter so chose myself a beautiful Sealpoint (brown tips) female.  Have decided to name her Dhaulagiri (white, dazzling, beautiful mountain in Sanskrit) to follow my tradition of naming my Himalayans after the Himalayas.  I will call her Dhaula but it won't matter since we all know that cats don't actually respond to their names.  Here's a picture. She won't be available til the beginning of August so I have that to look forward to.

Company for Cho Oyu (or an excuse to post gratuitous kitty pictures)

Cho Oyu is a mountain in the Himalayas.  It is also the name of my two year old Himalayan Persian.

Gratuitous kitty picture #1.

Gratuitous kitty picture #2

I know.  Ridiculously cute, right?  Anyway, she is also super social and super lonely so she's getting a sister.  I got an email today from the breeder, he has a new litter, two Himalayans, one blue point, one cream point, and I am first on the list for my choice.  Yay!  

Now I just need a name.  How many mountains are there in the Himalayas anyway?

You Can't Do This With a Digital Camera

Remember when you used to be able to find a roll of film lying around, with no idea what pictures it might contain.  Yup.  Me too.  I got to revisit those days.  I dug out my Contax 139 Quartz SLR camera (Google It if you are under twenty).  I wanted to take some close-up pictures of the birds on my feeder and my digital camera doesn't have a big enough zoom.

Hey, check it out.  There's a roll of film inside.  Costco develops film.

Sadness at the subject of the pictures.  Happiness at what nice pictures they are.  Here are the best of the bunch.

We adopted Buster when he was about three years old.  He had been an outdoor cat (Really? An outdoor Himalayan Persian?  Who thinks that is a good idea?), and was not very socialized, in addition to being covered in serious knots.  We spent about eight hours cutting out the knots (didn't help with the socialization) but then, over the next couple years he really mellowed out and became a very cool cat.  He was a flame point Himalayan and he developed a wasting disease (probably developed while he was roaming the woods of Bellingham).  We couldn't figure out what it was or how to treat it and eventually he was wasting away so badly that we had to have him put to sleep.  I cried and T. couldn't go with me as she was too upset.

T got Simone as a kitten in Iowa. When T and I met Simone was staying with friends in Iowa while T got settled in California. When Simone and I first met T flew to Iowa and brought her back to California to live with us.  She was a wonderful cat.  Very social, wanted to be on your lap at all times, slept on your feet so you couldn't roll over in the night. She was a seal point Himalayan and made me fall in love with the Himalayan Persian breed.

Simone went into a coma at age fifteen and I had her put to sleep.  I cried again.

Dark glasses help when you visit the vet in these situations.

Both cats are buried in my garden.  I miss them both.

Cho Oyu is a blue point Himalayan and was not born when these pictures were taken.  She is happily living in my home and will be two years old in about three months.  Maybe someday I'll find a roll of undeveloped film and blog about how wonderful she was.