Jersey

This post is dedicated to my cat, Jersey. We have had both cats, Josie and Jersey, for 4 years. I got them for Allan for his birthday the year we were married. Here are a few pictures of them our first Christmas with them. Josie found the Christmas tree right away that year and we still have to keep her out of it every year. Jersey is bigger now, but she still has the same annoyed look on her face all the time. I think she is disappointed that she doesn't have cooler owners.

I think this picture is just adorable. They used to play with each other until they were both exhausted and would fall asleep in the same position.

Here is a quick story about Jersey. When we got her she was tiny. We couldn't take her home for a few weeks because she was too small to be adopted. I think she weighed 2 pounds when we took her home. So I was always worried about her since she was so small. One night soon after we adopted her Allan was out playing poker and I was home with the cats when Jersey started choking. She was coughing and her tounge was hanging out of her mouth and she was gasping for air. I was freaking out. Then all of a sudden she threw up a giant rubber band. She was fine after that. The following is a reenactment of something that happened last week. To the right is a shoelace. Just a simple shoelace, right?

We came home from work the next day and the shoelace looked like this. Perfectly in a straight line...except for squiggles at the end next to a puddle of vomit (I left that out of the reenactment). I cleaned the vomit and put the shoelace back in the shoebox it came in. I don't know why I didn't just throw it away.

The next day it was out of the box again and on the bathroom floor. This time I got lazy and ignored it. We got home late and instead of moving it we both just stepped over it....not that getting home late is any excuse for not picking up and throwing away a shoelace.

Because of our laziness, this is what we found in the morning. (Again, I didn't think it was necessary to actually put the shoelace in the toilet in the reenactment. And, by the way, we threw away the 1st shoelace. The one used in this reenactment was the other one). It seems with those cats that everything always ends up in the toilet or in their water bowl. They always amaze me with their craziness. This time I thought I should document it.