As I suspected would happen, Fernando seems ready for a second cat. He's been saying he doesn't want a second one for years, but I've also learned that he likes to bullshit me, so I suspected this stance wouldn't last long. Well also, because he is a lurver of the kitties.
Anyway, he knows someone at work who's cat is going to have kittens, and he wants one. I do think Haley would like another kitty, because she seems a bit bored to me. I think she regrets getting rid of BOTH the old boys, cause she has no one to torment. I'd like to get her a cat who's playful, but unconcerned with letting her be Top Cat. She's not a big cat, so I'd like one that won't grow up to be huge and therefore physically dominant. We need the runt of the litter!
I was thinking of a girl cat, cause I'm so afraid of getting another sprayer... but apparently girls spray too, and are very territorial. So. A small, frisky, non-power-hungry boy?
We would normally always get a grown cat, since they're harder to adopt, but we think Halzebub will feel less threatened by a kitten.
In the old Meowee East Haley was identified as Isreal, because she was the perceived "interloper." But in the end she was probably more Hezbollah that anything else. Sherry was more Israel--clearly the top cat, trying to mind his own business, but ready to FREAK THE HELL OUT if another cat got in his face. Nombly was always Egypt - kindly, stately, but powerless. So what does that make a new kitten? An invading American force? Guess we won't know til we see his or her personality. Expect new and fresh drama in The Meowee East.
