Timmy

We have a new cat! We adopted Timmy yesterday. My allergies have already noticed! Timmy is about 4 months old, orange and white.

The Scott County Humane Society takes animals from the animal shelter (which euthanizes) and places them in foster homes. Then each Saturday they bring animals to the Pet Smart, which is where we went to check out the animals. We've been holding this over Charlotte as a reason she needs to be well behaved. This week, after our travel has been a real struggle for her! But we decided the timing was right, since I'll be available this week to enforce the house rules. So anyway, they had several kittens and a few older cats. They were all adorable and sweet, but everyone liked Timmy (in addition to other cats), so we went with Timmy. This was the name given by his foster family, but the girls weren't inclined to change it, so it has stuck so far. For some reason the name "Timmy Tiptoes" from the Beatrix Potter book keeps coming to mind for me, so I call him that.

His first evening we had the neighbors over so the house was a little crazy. I was worried this would stress him out, but he seemed to handle it well. When the last neighbor left, he went running from room to room, so I guess he noticed the difference! He has already found a favorite spot: the back of the couch. He also if fond of walking on the keyboard while we type. He's already litter trained and it really took very little effort to get him to find and use his box.

The girls have been handling him very well. At first Charlotte was a bit timid around him, but by the time we had him home, she was already trying to pick him up and turn his head so he could look at things!