So we’re probably going to be getting a new cat — probably this weekend — as Katherine has had a yen for a pet, and she’s demonstrated she can be responsible, and I (or we, but Margie keeps saying it’s me) am a marshmallow.<\/p>\n
Katherine’s initial preference, actually, is for something — fish, guinea pigs, hamsters, etc. — that our current cats would consider as “food,” which would be unfair to the newcomers and present incumbents alike. Cats are also a solid idea for us because they tend to be pretty independent and easy to care for, and if we’re away for a weekend or something, we aren’t going to come back and find them floating upside down in the tank or the small-rodent equivalent.<\/p>\n
Katherine has semi-reluctantly agreed, though she’s still got her hopes up that we’ll change our mind.<\/p>\n
So in Margie and my discussions about this outside of little pitcher range, we agreed that a female cat would be best — least competition with Mist and Indy, least likely to mark territory, etc.<\/p>\n
As we were discussing this with Katherine on the way to dinner tonight, she piped up, utterly unsolicited, “It has to be a girl <\/em>kitty!”<\/p>\n Excellent, we thought. One less complication to negotiate with her. “Yes,” Margie said, “we need a girl one.”<\/p>\n Katherine continued, “So we can have kittens and more <\/em>kittens!”<\/p>\n Ah … that engendered another talk, but I was still chuckling several minutes later …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So we’re probably going to be getting a new cat — probably this weekend — as Katherine has had a yen for a pet, and she’s demonstrated she can be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","category-pets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6659,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/weekend_update.html","url_meta":{"origin":9461,"position":0},"title":"Weekend Update","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Aug-04 7:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"Friday We're (belatedly) doing some rec center activities for Katherine -- Fridays at the drop-in art class in the late morning, and this week cooking class in the late afternoon....","rel":"","context":"In "Gaming"","block_context":{"text":"Gaming","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gaming"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130150,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/11\/the-cats-are-glad-margie-is-home-too.html","url_meta":{"origin":9461,"position":1},"title":"The cats are glad Margie is home, too","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Mar-16 12:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not as glad as I am, though. \u00a0 View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160310_165440037.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160310_165440037.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160310_165440037.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10196,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/14\/weekend_review.html","url_meta":{"origin":9461,"position":2},"title":"Weekend Review","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Aug-06 9:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"A relatively quiet weekend, all things considered. 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