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\nWe’ve pretty much decided now to get a cat of our own. The neighbourhood cat’s visits have convinced me. Ingrid has always wanted a cat, Adrian is generally positive to pets, and Eric doesn’t mind. So here we are.<\/p>\n
\nWe’ve pretty much decided now to get a cat of our own. The neighbourhood cat’s visits have convinced me. Ingrid has always wanted a cat, Adrian is generally positive to pets, and Eric doesn’t mind. So here we are.<\/p>\n
It won’t be a kitten, though, despite Ingrid’s pleas. I don’t want a baby in the house again, regardless of species. I’d much rather skip the mess and chaos of a kitten and get a cat that’s had some time to settle in its character and find its footing in life.<\/p>\n
As soon as we had decided, Ingrid went on a Blocket spree and came back with a shortlist of suggestions of cats she liked. I contacted a few of the sellers, and reached a tentative agreement with one. So we might be cat owners a week from now – if, after meeting the cat, we think he would be a good fit for us.<\/p>\n
Today I went shopping for essential cat equipment: a litter box and a crate. Our potential adoptee cat lives in the countryside now and is used to being outdoors, and mostly doing its business outdoors. He will definitely be going outdoors here as well – with the way we keep our doors open in the summer, it would be impossible to keep an animal inside. (Sometimes it is impossible to keep them outside<\/a>.) But for the first few weeks after moving, while he’s still settling in, he’ll have to remain inside.<\/p>\n The stacks of litter box pellets were quite unphotogenic. And the cat food and water bowls were downright tasteless – golden with little paw prints, or pink with cartoonish fish skeletons. I don’t want any of those in my kitchen. The most interesting-looking thing in the pet shop was this shelf of dead tree branches, for terrariums I guess. Of course there’s a market for pretty-looking dead branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve pretty much decided now to get a cat of our own. The neighbourhood cat’s visits have convinced me. Ingrid has always wanted a cat, Adrian is generally positive to pets, and Eric doesn’t mind. So here we are. It won’t be a kitten, though, despite Ingrid’s pleas. I don’t want a baby in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15169,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167\/revisions\/15169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}