Victoria.

Victoria playing with all the new kitty tags that I bought at PetSmart today…

The brats will be 90 days old on April 12th. I hauled Victoria and Lizzy to the vet today for shots - can you believe that the vets here want THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY DOLLARS to spay EACH kitty?? I find that unbelievable. My mom just paid $75 to get one of her cats spayed. Seriously. I’m thinking about driving to Kentucky with the girls to get them spayed there - it would be cheaper to spend the gas money driving there and back!

Victoria did NOT enjoy her shot. The vet wasn’t holding her down enough and she moved, and I’m pretty certain that the needle did more than just skin - and as I recall from my own personal experience when the Dr. had to drain fluid from my stomach after my tummy tuck years ago and accidentally knicked my abdominal muscles. Victoria had the same reaction I did, which is to say there was a lot of hissing, spitting and tension. They also gave the ladies feline leukemia shots with a weird hypospray gadget. No needles involved on this one, but after a slightly delayed reaction Victoria jumped about three feet straight up in the air! Good thing the vet was holding her or I would have had a cat landing on my head!

I am a sad panda. Bennie went to her forever home on Monday, and I miss her. I think Victoria and Lizzie miss her too, but since they still have each other it is hard to tell. Victoria sure does a lot more sleeping without Bennie constantly attacking her. Something’s up with Lizzie’s milk machine too - all of her milk-makers on the right-paw side are swollen. So I get to call the vet tomorrow to find out if I need to haul her fuzzy but all over Tempe. She isn’t acting any weirder than normal, and is currently romping around the house with midnight crazies, so who knows.

On the plus side, Lizzie and Mr. B are getting along a lot better now - the other day Mr. B just walked right up to a snoozing Lizzy and started giving her a kitty-bath.

Kitties are so weird.

Some new disgustingly cute pictures are posted on my flickr account. The kittens are doing quite well now - they’ve learned manners and are eating solid foods and using their cat-boxes like civilized kitties should. I’ve decided to go against the feelings of my inner-crazy-cat-ladyness and find a home for both Victoria and Elizabeth. As much as I love Lizzy and Victoria I really don’t want multiple cats right now - maybe some day when I’ve settled and have a house or a steady location I can get more kitties, but for now, eventually, I think it just needs to be the old man Bigglesworth and I.

Of course I’m enjoying it all as much as I can right now I think Bennie is going to go live with Eric after ASU’s Spring Break is over. Its going to be hard on me to see her go, even if she’s just going about 200 feet east. sigh