What have we done?

So, in an action that can only be defined as rash, Brigitte and I have quite suddenly changed the landscape of our home, our family and our sanity. For reasoning that is clear only to those people who don't ever think things through we have made two new additions to our homes.

They are currently named Barnett Cat 1 and Barnett Cat 2. The no kill shelter that we adopted them from had named them Richard and Robert but we are on the hunt for more...cat like names (like Zoidberg for our current cat).

Brigitte and I first brought cats into our collective life on December 7, 2000 with the addition of Ziggy and Zoidberg into our lives. In March, Ziggy passed away due to complications from what the vet described as birth defects. We were surprised that birth defects would take eight years to manifest themselves, but the vet essentially said that when Ziggy was born his organs had not formed correctly and he was lucky to live as long as he did. This was devastating news to us as he was fine one day, sick and not himself the next and then the day after that he was gone. It was very sudden and we were heartbroken. Ziggy and Zoidberg were like our first children. To lose one so unexpectedly was...I don't have a thesaurus handy, so let's just say it was bad.

Ziggy (in background) and Zoidberg with baby Evelyn

Fast forward to Sunday night and I asked Brigitte if she thought she would like to get another cat, or like Ziggy and Zoidberg another pair of brothers (Z & Z coming from the same litter). We looked online and found these two and then yesterday afternoon brought them home. I usually like to consider options and think things through but in this instance I seem to have failed in that. So now we have one eight year old cat sulking around not sure of what to make of these six month old kittens and two kittens ransacking the house turning our relatively simple and clear cut lives into disarray.

They are very cute and have lots of good energy. Evelyn seems to enjoy them although she does seem to have some problem with how much attention that they require (I think that she would prefer that attention to be diverted to her). So, we have started a new phase of our lives and if we all survive, I'm sure that they (anyone have a good idea for names?) will be welcome additions to our little family.

Enjoy Cat Scratch Fever!