Seriously?? Why us??

See this cat? Isn’t she cute? Is she yours? Do you want her? Anyone??? She’s free! I’ll even throw in a bag of cat food. Anyone???

This annoying, but somewhatly cute, little cat, showed up on our doorstep this past Friday. She won’t go away. I refused to feed her, in hopes that after realizing she was unwanted, that she would go away. It didn’t seem to work. She was still here on Saturday morning, begging at the back door. Sigh…

I told Trevor that we needed to take her somewhere and drop her off. I didn’t want a cat to starve to death on the back porch. I may not like cats, but I’m not that cruel. So we called the local police department and they told us of an animal shelter that would take her. The kids were disappointed, but I was not going to give in. We do not need a cat. Expecially one that appears to be used to the indoors. It keeps trying to get in the house. Absolulty not!! It will not come in my house.

So off we go to the animal shelter. I was hoping that Trevor would just run her in, while the rest of us stayed in the van. We had other errands to run that day and I figured that would be the fastest way. Well, the kids begged to go in with Trevor, so he let them. I stayed in the van alone. Big mistake…. I should have just taken her in myself.

Out Trevor comes a few minutes later…without the kids or the cat. Um…ok…What’s going on? He has this kind of half grin on his face and says, “The shelter will give us a $50 voucher to get the cat fixed, if we want to keep her.”

Arggg!!! No! I don’t want a cat. They stink. The get into the garbage. They poop in the sand box. We’d have to feed her. What about when we go out of town? Then what??

Sigh…my arguments aparently weren’t good enough. Glorianna’s pleading little voice and puppy dog eyes aparently had more effect on Trevor then my protests. We are now the owners of a cat. BLAH!!!

Well, she is going to have to learn to live out doors. I will NOT let her in the house. Thankfully Trevor agrees with me on that part, anyway. So the cat has been named “Kezia” and has a home in the backyard and a bed in our garage. I’ve listed her on craigslist and Trevor put a picture of her on facebook, hopeing the owner or at least a cat lover, would claim her. No luck. She seems to have “claimed us” and there is no getting rid of her…without just dumping her off somewhere.

Oh well…on a positive note.

1. Glorianna is normally terrified of animals.. no matter their size. But she seems to have fallen in love with Kezia and Kezia has really taken a liking to Glorianna. Maybe this will help tame her fears a bit??

2. Hopefully, Kezia will be great at keeping the squirrels and birds out of our garden this summer and keeping the mice away from the house! This would definitely win her a small place in my heart. =)

3. The kids will hopefully learn responsibility a little better. They are the ones who are going to be in charge of feeding her and taking care of her “business” if she goes in the yard or the garage. They have agreed to this, knowing that if I have to do it, she is gone.

4. The kids will be outside more often..they now have “entertainment”….well kind of….

See…I’m trying to be positive about this.