A co-worker's fiance is moving here after she graduates from college next month. He already has a cat, and her two additional cats won't work with the two-cat maximum at his apartment. So, we're going to have Sappho (a 2 1/2-y.o. female gray and white kitty) over for a visit first to see how she and Amarna get on. If they don't tear each other apart (she's front declawed, but Amarna has all of hers), then she'll be staying. They're about the same age (A is probably a year older, estimated), so I just hope they get along.

I might change her name, though--sorry, Victor, but I'm just not a big fan of poetry outside of Chaucer! I'm thinking about something from Irish mythology, since from the pics I've seen, her color reminds me of Irish tweed (tan and grey and white).

Mine, that I remember, often are cued by the radio alarm, which is NPR. Which kind of explains the focus on historical properties, given there was a local piece on that. The russian maintenance guy in them was totally from reality, though. Replaced my toilet

Combination of escape and way the fuck too close, given one was a stupid "I'm really awake and getting dressed" when I wasn't and then..the pretty russian maintenance dude. Prefer to either keep dreaming or actually just wake up.

ita, you were in my dream last night. And you wanted four sugars in your coffee. Waaaaaay off-topic.

I also had a great place I was living in in Greece. (Hi Raq!)

Kathy, best of luck. If it is any consolation, Devi still hates Mister Kitty, but no blood. And as for the tortie interloper, the hostility came from the tortie, not my guys, but no blood. Sometime detente is good enough.

I keep thinking that maybe I should feed her more, since she finishes off her evening half cup usually by noon at the latest the next day, leaving her with no food until I get home after 7:00

Kathy, I'm sure she's fine. Honestly, if she's not gobbling the whole thing when you put it down, she's not starving. Lucy pretty much always has food in her bowl (or on the floor around her bowl, really) but she mostly only eats in the morning and at night - the food level is exactly the same when I come home as it was when I left in the morning. A few hours of no food is not going to harm her.

She bitches when I get home, and yowls if I make any sidetrips from the front door to the kitchen to feed her immediately, but after eating a bit of her food right away, she's fine. The weekends are fun because she likes to push back the feeding from the 24 hour interval I like to keep it at--when she decides she wants her food and meowing doesn't get it, then she'll jump on top of whatever flat surface is nearest to me and starts pushing things off of said surface. A few minutes of that, and I'm usually scooping food for her (yes, she has me trained very well!).

Kathy, I don't know if you give her wet or dry food, but I'd highly suggest free-feeding of dry. There are recommended amounts on the bags, and just...steel yourself against the whines. I figured out MK gets about 1/2 c/ day, but honestly, I just fill up the bowl when it is empty.

The wet food is a spoonful at shot times, so really, not necessary. But, oh, the whining! You'd think they never eat.

Bottom line: cats manipulate.

hunh. I didn't eat dinner. tummy is growly now.

EAT IT! Dinner now, silly.

Oh, I had an interesting cultural thing earlier -- I went into the deli across the street, and was randomly wandering, so the deli guy was like, "what's up?" I said I wasn't sure what I felt like, and he asked if I wanted sweet or sour.