Borrrrrrring

It's so exhausting getting into the rhythm of a new home with new brothers and sisters.

Nice teeth buddy!

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Here's Binx!

  He is trying hard to play with Paddy but Paddy thinks he's trying to fight.  I think he might be younger than I thought.  The vet didn't say what he thought and I forgot to ask him.  He's 14 pounds of energy running through the house at top speed.  He had a very spirited game of mousie today with a catnip mouse.

Zoey is NOT a fan of the new boy.  She hisses whenever he gets near her.  It doesn't seem to faze him in the least. 

He doesn't care about the cat tree.  I tried to put him on it to show him Zoey's stash of food but he didn't care for the height.  He backed out of the box the food was in and proceeded to fall off the cat tree.  He's not the most coordinated animal I've ever seen.  I don't think he has done much jumping in his life either.  He jumped about a foot from the kitchen counter to the Island and hung there with his claws in the wooden top, his back feet trying to grab anything solid.  My measuring cups that I keep on a shelf under the counter were all over the floor. (I'm still looking for my 1/4 cup measure)
More later........

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Binx Is Now A Family Member

Took a very vocal Binx to the vet this afternoon.  He was negative for FIV and Feline Leukemia.  We brought him home and deposited him in the laundry room where the kitty box is and he immediately left us a stinky present.  He is currently hogging my chair at the dinning room table where we spend a good portion of our time.  I guess this is payback for several shots and a couple of de-worming pills he had to endure while at the vets office.  You know how it goes........you have to train your humans right from the beginning or they think they have the upper hand.
I certainly hope he stops itching soon.  Poor guy, that seems to be all he does.  The doctor gave him a steroid shot to stop some of the itching.  I hope that's all he needs but I have my doubts.
I'll try tomorrow or Sunday to get a good picture of him in the light.  Kinda hard to get a good one of a black cat in the dark.
Later......................

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Can You Say, "Oh Oh!" ?

Here we go again!  We are about to take in a new stray.  Tomorrow if all goes as planned we are packing up a boy we've been feeding on our deck and taking him to the vet to see if he is FIV free.  If he is...he comes in that night.  He is a short haired, black, neutered male...... we have named Binx.  We, of course, have no idea how old he is, but I'm sure the vet will help with a ball-park figure.  Look out Dr Stanhope here we come!

Binx has been hanging around since Summer and decided recently that our deck was his final destination.  I know he was down the street for quite a while.  There were two black cats and now there is only one very skinny one.  I think that one is an intact female that had kittens under the house of a neighbor a few months ago.

Binx has to come in soon because I'm getting tired of bringing in the food dish at night so the raccoons don't attempt to help themselves to it.  He always looks like I'm hurting his feelings when I bring that dish in.
If he is FIV free I will post pictures of him and his progress in his new "digs".

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