Several months ago when I was in the basement doing laundry and changing out the sheets on the guest bed I noticed that we had evidence of a mouse. If there is one thing I hate more than anything else in this world, it is a mouse. I screamed, I cried, I ran upstairs, I refused to go back downstairs, I cried some more and declared that I was going to move out of our house because there was a mouse in the basement (more like a family, but that is a story for another day). I bought packages and packages of sticky traps and snap traps - the little rodents would get stuck and then peel themselves off of the traps or set the traps off but escape. I had caught a total of 0 after several weeks (at which point I am sure the things had multiplied). This was also about the time that one of my favorite episodes of Duck Dynasty came out, when the Robertson's had mice, Miss Kay got three cats!
SO……...
I begged Kevin for a cat, I just KNEW that if we had a cat it would catch the mice, I had to have a cat… but Kevin was 'allergic'.
My dear Neighbor Ms M. knew how much I wanted a cat (although I don't think she knew about the rodent issue), so one day in the middle of July she shows up to my front door with a present. A sweet little kitten from her parents farm. It was the saddest looking kitten, barely pushing 4 weeks, had eye issues, the momma cat had abandoned it and "Sarah, it's going to get run over by a combine if you don't take it… " If you know me at all, you know I am a sucker for situations like this, but at the same time the thing was as HOMELY and UGLY as a toad. I turned to look at Kevin and he said "sure, we can keep it" (wrong answer!). So we started off with the kitten on a trial period. It used it's litter box, it didn't make a lot of noise, it didn't do much of anything but sit on top of our laptops to stay warm. For several weeks I nursed this cat back to health.
And then…. Kevin named it. On the way home from somewhere he looks at me and says "I think we should name the cat Fiona" (it was obviously a girl, it didn't have boy parts). Once you name an animal you are stuck with it. There are no take-backsies
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