play with my cats more

Since I last wrote aobut this goal, a lot has changed, which is maybe why I’ve been so reluctant to get back online and write about my goals.

My poor little kitty, who seemed to have recovered from his health problems, had to be helped to the Rainbow Bridge a month after I wrote my last entry on this goal. It was a real shock to come back to the site and see things I had written about him after his death. I really hoped that things would be ok for him, but in the end it turned out that he was horribly horribly sick with a disease that caused a whole variety of strange problems and cut his little life way too short.

So now only his brother remains and the new little sister that our angel brought to us about a month or two after he passed on. She has been a godsend for our surviving kitty, helping him to adjust, playing with him almost constantly, and keeping him company so that he is not alone during the day. She will never take the place of our angel, but she helps us to not feel as terribly sad.

This whole experience has made me realize that we don’t always get as much time as we deserve and that we need to appreciate the time we do have.

Both kitties have had some health and eating issues recently – one was possibly fatal (but thank God, the tests came back negative). I’ve been so preoccupied with worrying about them and being sad lately that I haven’t devoted much time to this goal. But thinking about being without them makes me want to devote time to this goal again. Even though they are both doing well now and have no immediate health concerns, I still resolve to make the most of the time I have with them.

My littlest kitty has a bump or some swelling on his face. I am really worried about him – we will be calling the vet as soon as they open tomorrow morning. He has not been acting differently or anything – same amount of energy and whatnot, but I am worried about it. It just showed up yesterday, I think (I spend a lot of time admiring his cute little face, so I feel like I would have noticed it before had it been there). Whenever something is wrong or seems wrong, my first thought is to panic and assume the worst for the kitties. I am just so attached to them that the thought of being without them makes me freak out. Hopefully it is just a spider bite or something – we have a lot of spiders on the outside of our building that find their way inside when it gets cold….. I hope he is going to be ok.

I am away on vacation right now and I miss my kitties. My parents’s dog, which they had since I was about 10 or so, died in the last year or two, so now there are no pets here. I find myself petting my nephew’s stuffed animals instead. Bah!

When we first got our kitties, we played with them all the time and it was so much fun. But as they got older and started entertaining themselves more, we kind of stopped. And we always said “We need to play with the kitties more often….” but never did. And now I think that they are suffering from it. They keep each other pretty well entertained, but sometimes I think they have too much energy as a result of lack of play. Plus it really is fun to play with them.