Kittens!

Today we've been and selected one of our cats. It's a cornish male which is tabby-chocolate masked (or something like that ;-) with blue eyes. Very cute! Does not look like a frog! Although this picture might suggest it:


This little fellow will move in with us in the end of march, about 6 weeks from now. He has three brothers and one sister. The cattery also has some other crx and dogs.

In about three weeks the first kitten will come. He's blue and white and lives with his three sisters and one brother, a big dog and a 'Uncle' cat. So both of the kittens will probably be used to a lot of commotion.

Tomek and I are starting to look at the apartment from a kittens point of view and found some areas we have to fix, for example, right now it would be quite easy for a kitten to get behind the refrigerator with out the possiblity to get out again. We also bought an piece of furniture that we planed to remake to a kitty furniture but it turned out to be pretty nice, so maybe it won't go through an extreme make over.

Everybody has started to tell us how much work it is to have kittens for say, oh a year or five. But we can't imagine it beeing that much work, probably more fun than work. We're also starting to come to turns with that everything in the apartment is in the risk of getting explored (damaged, ruined, destroyed) by the kittens. Hope they will leave the fishes alone...

Dog person

Almost the first everybody told me when telling them that me and Tomek are thinking about getting cats is: But, Britta you're a dog person!

They do have a good reason for saying this, the last 10 or mayby 15 years dogs have been the animal in focus in my life. Recently I had to put my dog to sleep. She was a 13 year old german shepard, who hade been part of my life since I was 15. It was of course very sad. Not only because the best dog in the world would leave but also since a big part of me would go away. The dog owner part. The part of me that for my entire adult life and teenage life had cared for and enyod the company of an animal.

But I am not a dog person, I am a animal person. I have had animals since age of seven when I go chickens. Yes, chickens the one that lays eggs and some times become dinner. My chickens only layed eggs and never became dinner though. After that I hade a rabbit, a couple of different birds and then a couple of gerbils. Then came the dog in to my life. I still like dogs very much, wonderful animals, but right now, the memory of my dog is enough. She enriched my life so much so that it the memory of her will last a long long time. But the animal person in me needs an animal to care, play and enjoy.

So now I'm going to have a new animal in the house, two actually, two cats. Never had cats before, and it is going to be intersting to see how it is to switch from having a very loyal dog, which listens to what I have to say, to having independent cats, who will not let me become the leader of the pack as easily.

Katja, my loyal companion who is no longer with me.