Cat update.

We brought her home around noon yesterday. Mom went to buy a leash and harness while I was out. I took her into Mom's bedroom, shut the door, and opened the cage. Like a flash she was out of that cage and under the bed. Oops. Later that night, I checked on her and she had her claw caught in the window screen (that Brindle had savaged a few years ago when he escaped while we were on a cruise.) I petted her for a few minutes until she started to tremble. It was when I went to pick her up that I realized she was stuck. She's totally non-violent; no hissing, yowling, scratching or biting...just a desperate desire to get away. She so small and slippery so back under the bed she went. I should have scruffed her. Instead when I went to pick her up with my hands under her, I felt the shaved tummy and let go because I didn't want to hurt her incision. She blinked at me and I blinked back (I think it means acceptance, but a website says "Slowly blinking is a reassuring signal between cats and between an owner and his or her cat. By slowly blinking you are telling them you are not a threat and are showing you care.")

She's eating well. She's come out a few times while Mom or I was in the room to eat. Tonight Mom said she meowed at her a few times from under the bed. It's gonna take a while to earn her trust again, but we're patient. I took a nap in there and we're trying to spend time with her.

She looks like she's weighs about 4 pounds and is maybe 8 months old. Mom likes the name Emma (I'd tossed out Vala, Teyla, Emma, Zeva, Kikki...we didn't want to name her Mittens.) It's a sweet name so it fits her. Emma it is unless something else seems more likely.

I searched twice more any kittens, hoping they might be noisy. Time wise, I thought she looked thicker in the middle about the third week in July which is when I asked to borrow the trap. Last week, I saw her tummy as she stretched up on her hind legs to eat some food on a chair. Her stomach was slender and the nipples were just little white nubs faintly disturbing her short fur. I remember I felt glad that she didn't look pregnant and her breasts weren't noticeable. I cling to the notion that while she was producing milk, she didn't have any living kittens.

The good news is that her tests were all negative and she appears to be healthy. It may be quite a while before I can get a photo of her. She's a grey tabby with white paws and a white belly. Huge eyes, like in those velvet paintings. Huge ears, too. She's very good about using her litter box, too. She seems quite content to be in that room--no dashing towards the open door. (and hopefully I just didn't jinx us.)

Again, thank you all for the support. You know how I feel about critters, and cats in particular. It's still upsetting but it's done now.

Movie review and a phone call.

Okay, there are three things I wanted to mention.

The first is that Buddy, the black cat has acquired two servants. He comes in and bosses us about. It's actually pretty funny. I feel by winter he'll be our cat but don't tell him that.

The second is that we saw Julie and Julia tonight. I really enjoyed it. It is very well acted, quite interesting and is pretty much exactly what I expected. I enjoyed the Julia parts more than the Julie parts, but those were okay, too. I recommend it unless you have to have special effects or car chases in your films.

Third, last week I wrote an annoyed letter to my congressman, David Drier, a republican. He apparently called up while we were at the movies. That's...unsettling. I wrote about health care bill because I felt very frustrated that he would, of course, be anti-bill. He can't really be interested in a pro-health care bill viewpoint so what was he after? He was having a telephone town hall meeting, whatever that is. Was I gonna be the person all the raving lunatics would be shouting down? Oh well, I'm glad I missed it.

Oh, also I want to say I am enjoying Being Human and find Defying Gravity ridiculous but I'm still watching because I want to know what Beta is.