We've been adopted. Oh Joy.

The cat on the rug is Max.  Our healthy twenty-pound shelter adoptee with us for about three years now.  He's a really great guy, very handsome, playful personality.   The one on the outside looking in has apparently noticed all this and fallen head over tail in love with him.  Seriously, she's been camped out on our back deck for the better part of two weeks staring at him with googly love-eyes.  And he's been camped right there on this side of the door acting all macho and everything. Aren't they a cute couple?  It's beginning to look as if we're going to have to get her vetted and vaccinated and spayed and made into a proper indoor cat so the two of them can be together.* 

Someone who shall remain nameless (but is over there in the Tide Pool and wears plaid) suggested a dropkick instead, which was absolutely just a joke, but it served as a great segue to her next suggestion of "Murphy."  Which it shall be. 

 

*Actually, she needs a home because she appears to have been a cared-for kitten until recently, and was probably a summer visitor's pet who got dumped at the end of the season when it was no longer convenient to own her.  Fairly common in these parts, unfortunately.  Until I can get her to the vet this weekend to make sure she's not carrying any contagious diseases, she remains outdoors but we have provided her with food and water daily and a lovely cardboard box with a pink towel. 

Comments

[RONW]

you don't suppose she thinks she's looking at her own reflection, instead of a Murphy?

[Bruce Small]

That's how we were adopted by Kat. He started hanging around with Buttercup on the patio, we gave him food and water (but he ignored the warm igloo bed we bought him), and he made friends with the dogs. When we went on vacation he moved in through the doggy door and we've had him ever since.

[Seaweed]

Ron, she'll also think she's seeing double because we actually have TWO tuxedo cats already. I tried to get her in a carrier tonight to take her to the vet for tests, but she wouldn't have it at all. I'll keep trying.