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[ocelot]

The good - We go to Davis on Friday! koyote found cheap tickets, and decided to take us for Mother's Day and the Whole Earth Festival.

This was supposed to be a surprise for me, but koyote sucks at keeping surprises secret :) Plus he figured that I'd be pissed off if he woke me up at 3:30 AM Friday morning to go catch a plane.

My mom and stepdad are driving up, which is also supposed to be a surprise. Perhaps my brother will show up as well. I have vague memories of koyote saying he was going to, but that may have been a dream.

Luckily, the weather is supposed to be cooler than it was earlier this week.

The bad - silkensteel is taking the cats today. This is primarily for health reasons (koyote's allergies, and Jenna came near to scratching Leif's eyeball yesterday), and we really should have done this back before we moved, when it was obvious that koyote and I were going to be staying together long term, but I still feel like the worst pet owner ever.

I know that this is necessary. koyote needs $300 (pre-insurance, thankfully) worth of meds per month to keep his asthma under control (not entirely due to the cats, but largely), and was in the ER once a month before he got decent insurance coverage. Keeping him alive is more important than keeping the cats.

And honestly, they'll probably be happier. Leif torments them (though they still love him - I find them curled up at his head while he's sleeping), and since he was born, we haven't been providing them with as much attention as they like to have.

I still feel terrible, like the dog owner in that email forward, who gets a dog in college, and then gradually abandons it as she gets a job, family, etc, and eventually puts the dog to sleep because it's too inconvenient.

I suppose we're a little better than that, since we're giving them away, not sending them to the violin factory.

I'm wondering how Leif will react. He loves the cats (even if he expresses it rather roughly). I don't know if he's aware enough yet to really notice they're gone.

The neutral - I want to make another baby carrier before leaving for Davis. Not sure I'll have the time. With silkensteel here, perhaps Leif will be distracted enough that I can get something put together.

I'm not sure what to do about diapers for this trip. I don't want to use disposables the whole time, but I don't want to fill up our luggage with diapers or do laundry constantly. I suppose I'll bring along our 5 motherease diapers and some training pants (since they're smallish) and 2 prefolds for nighttimes. That should do while we're in the house, at least.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Our kids took a while to learn to play nicely with the cats, but the cats endured the learning period pretty stoically. They used to run away from Goose for a while, but they don't any more. Goose and Pirate missed them terribly after we moved out here, until we were able to get them back.

(By the way ... did we leave their big bulk-feeder with you, too? If so, we could really use it...)

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

The main problem is that Jenna is a bit of a diva. She insists on sitting somewhere, and won't move, regardless of what Leif is doing to her, but if he gets out of hand, she'll give him a whack. I move her somewhere else, and she'll go right back where she was.

Jaycee is smarter, and runs away if it gets to be too much for her.

We didn't move the food dish with us, but I can have a replacement sent if you need it.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, thing is, we have a feeder for them, but it's small and shallow. Which means (a) they can't easily both get to it at once, (b) it runs out quickly, and (c) it runs out even faster because a lot of the food gets spilled on the floor. We've looked for bulk feeders like the one we had, but can't find anything like it -- the closest thing we've found is a large-dog feeder that's HUGE.

If you didn't bring it east with you, I guess we'll just have to keep looking.

(Hmmm..... wonder if we can order one online from An-Jan?)