Conversation

Outside it was a cold dreary day with what the weathermen called  'conversational snow,' which doesn't amount to anything or disrupt any plans.  

Inside Charlie.......

Shadow........

and Todd all were hoping for a 'conversation' with the kitten.  

Actually, I think that Todd is done with 'conversation.' 

He's ready to take his friendship with Dale to the next level.   

I wonder what Dale thinks about that? 

A Saturday Memory

~Shadow~

Some of my favorite childhood memories revolve around Saturday mornings. It was the height of luxury to be able to sit around in pajamas with my brothers and watch our favorite cartoons and indulging in some sweet, colorful cereal and getting more than our recommended daily allowance of sugar, carbohydrates and artificial color.  But then we grew up, and I'm sure many of you are like me and don't give yourself permission to be that lazy on Saturdays--We're too busy running and catching up on all the errands we didn't get to during the week.  This morning for me was no exception, I was out the door early but before I left I enjoyed a bowl of  Fruit-Loops in front of the television watching an old cartoon--It really took me back to those Saturday mornings from so long ago; I'm glad I didn't resist that urge to buy a box when they were on sale this week!  

Powered by all the sugar in my bowl of Fruit-Loops, my errands were quickly done and I was home before noon for the rest of the day.

~Cissy~

All in all, it wasn't a bad day.

I hope yours was too.

Introducing Dale

An ice storm on Wednesday meant downed trees and slick roads for us.  However warmer temperatures yesterday afternoon made the drive home from work not nearly as much of a nail-biter.  My day off today has been filled with a lot of sunshine that is doing little to melt the ice on our driveway.

Of course the dogs don't care about any of it; their week has been consumed with getting to know the new addition. I have been very careful and cautious introducing 'Dale' to the dogs because I didn't know how any of them would react to a cat that wasn't CC.

Dale seems to have no fear whatsoever of the dogs so the intros have gone pretty well. And Charlie, for whatever reason has taken a real liking to Dale.

Charlie has claimed Dale as his very own, and wants to be with him every chance he gets.  Dale doesn't seem to mind all of the attention and if I didn't know better, I'd think he was enjoying it.    

Todd is of course very, very curious about Dale and wants to play.  I know it's only a matter of time before Dale runs and Todd chases him.

So I've limited his one on one interactions with Dale for now.

But I think that both Charlie and Todd enjoy just hanging-out in 'Dale's room'.     

We've still not decided about keeping Dale or putting him up for adoption. I think he could easily find a home because he's a young and pretty sociable cat.

The rescue that we are fostering him for, along with 2 other rescues managed to get all 100 cats from the shelter that Dale came from.  But I read on their Facebook page this week that they were trying to get 30 more cats from another shelter.  Sadly it never ends, and if we keep Dale our helping another cat will end too.  But the decision doesn't have to be made for about anther week, so we will see.  Watch this space!

Dale Arrives at Golden Pines

We've had a week of internet and phone problems.  Keeping a connection on the internet for any length of time was almost impossible.  Thinking it was just the internet, on Wednesday I realized that our land-line was dead and going straight to voice-mail.  This may not have been a problem if we had voice-mail on our land-line, but we don't. New equipment arrived on Friday and Carl seems to have resolved the internet issues, but fixing our land-line is probably something only our phone company can fix.

~CarrieAnne~

Whatever our internet problems were at home, it didn't stop me from looking at it while at work.  On Tuesday I saw on Facebook a plea from a local rescue that was looking for 'emergency foster homes' for 100 cats in a shelter in Virginia that was closing.  The cats were going to be euthanized if rescues were unable to take them.  So, you can guess what happened next.....I know, I know, we just lost our sweet girl CC and I was really adamant about not getting another cat because of Shadow.  But we would only be fostering the cat, and not keeping it, so that makes it okay, right?

~Cissy~

Right....And that's what I'm going to keep telling myself now that I've met six-month-old "Dale," who arrived today at Golden Pines.  Of course all the dogs were excited to meet him, especially Charlie.

Todd was front and center and kept jumping up to get a better look.

For now, Dale is staying in our spare room, and we've not allowed the dogs to meet him outside of the crate.  Charlie has been sitting outside the bedroom door whining and hoping for a glimpse of the new arrival--I did let him in to get a closer look because for whatever reason Charlie seems to be really taken by him.

I can understand why.