It's hard to believe that the kitties have been in my life for two years now! I never thought I would be a cat person, pets have never held my attention for very long... but now when I'm gone from home for a few days I miss my furry little friends. And let's face it, with the romantic horizon pretty bleak at the moment, they might be all I have in life for quite some time.
I had considered getting a cat for a while before I moved in with Ashley. Ashley and I had discussed it some before we were roommates and shortly after moving into our place in Cedar Park, Ashley decided it was time for cats. We went on a couple outings to a few animal shelters before we journeyed to the Austin Humane Society that fateful morning. Ashley had decided that we were each going to get a cat, both female, and both sisters. We saw Smokey and Giada (they were already named) and they were so pretty! We took them to play for a bit and decided that those were our kitties.
It turns out that Ashley has a shorter attention span when it comes to pets than I do, and after about two months she was pretty much done with the kitties. She still did more than her part to take care of them... feeding, watering, and cleaning out the litter box, but they didn't get hardly any play time with Ashley. I remember when they were tiny and would lay on my tummy or curl up at my feet when I'd nap on the couch. Now, they're much bigger and they only want to lay on me if I'm petting them.
What amazes me the most about my two cats is how different they are from each other. They really have polar opposite personalities and it's funny to watch them interact. Smokey is the dominant kitty. She always gets to eat first whenever it's feeding time. She waits by the door to greet me almost every day and follows me from room to room wherever I go. She also has never met a stranger and runs up to anyone who enters the apartment and almost always automatically lays on her back for them to rub her belly. I say she's my dog-like cat. She's also an attention-whore and gets jealous any time I'm petting Giada and she'll jump up on the couch next to me or come sit on the back of the chair to remind me that she's there and would love for me to spare some attention.
Giada is afraid of the world. She's very shy and timid when it comes to outsiders, and often hides as soon as someone enters the apartment that she doesn't know. Smokey will jump right into my lap, but Giada prefers to sit on the floor next to the couch looking up and staring at me until I reach down and pick her up and put her in my lap. For discipline, I squirt a water bottle in the cats' faces when they're bad. Giada never has to be sprayed, but she runs away whenever she sees the bottle if I'm going to spray Smokey. I'm constantly saying to Smokey, "Why can't you be more like your sister?" Giada never wakes me up at 5 am, never claws at the furniture, and never tries to go through my purse and pull everything out.
I love my kitties and I'm glad they're in my life. It's fun to have someone to cuddle with when you're lonely and they're actually pretty dang entertaining. Last night as I drifted off to sleep I heard something pawing at the door. I thought Smokey was probably pawing at the book case trying to pull down a book, but it turns out that Giada was pawing at Smokey who was on the outside of the door trying to get in my bedroom but Giada wouldn't let her! Some of the funniest things I've seen have occurred when I've been woken up in the middle of the night to kitty wrestling at my feet. Now if only they could learn how to clean out their litter box themselves, I'd be in heaven!
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