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Jun. 22nd, 2025 08:37 am
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I woke up sick. Whee!

It doesn't feel like anything major, and yet being unwell during a heat wave is the epitome of awful. Going to drink lots of tea and not do much for the next few days.

Sunny and Beans. Beans wants to play with his cat-shaped friend so badly, and Sunny wants nothing to do with him. I play with Beans as often as I can to wear him out, but he always gravitates back to the other cat. Sunny is jealous that I don't pay 100% of my attention to him anymore; he's an aloof cat who maybe wants 30 minutes spread out through the day. That's it.

I guess now that I'm not available on his schedule is the root of his turning into a grumpy old man, but he can adapt to it just like he needs to adapt to Beans.

Beans continues to be a delight. He does, though, get into things he should not (typical kitten behaviour), so there's a lot of redirection going on around here, including redirection back to a toy and away from Sunny.

Kitten!

Jun. 9th, 2025 08:29 am
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So. Last week, we were dumb.



This is Beans. He was adopted from the Humane Society on Thursday. He's 2 months old and so very wee. We took him to the vet on Friday to a) get him registered, and b) get his left eye checked out, since it was red-rimmed and leaking (his eye is fine - no scratches and we have drops that are clearing up whatever irritation he had). On Saturday, we went and splashed out on a new cat tree as our previous one was at least eight years old. (Beans was asleep on top of the condo until I spoke to him. Now he wants cuddles.)

He is full of kitten-y mischief, like going behind the stove and into the warming drawer. Exhibit A:

Sunny is warming up to him. It's a process, but there hasn't been aggression. He has hissed, growled, swatted once that I saw (and only one time), and has found places to be that Beans cannot get to. It's been more of, "Go away, kid, you bother me," and less, "I must defend my home from invaders." Beans wants to play with his new cat-shaped friend SO BADLY, but Sunny isn't there yet. I observe their interactions, but will only interfere if it gets dangerous; Beans needs to learn that the older cat has some very reasonable boundaries and won't if I'm constantly pulling them apart.

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