new cat: Arwen

[cimorene]

Barring future complications, this is our new cat. I never posted publicly about the fact that we lost Lily this summer. We were feeling fragile and still don't wish to talk about it, but after a while we settled into having a one-cat household and then set out to find another cat.

She seemed okay with the new digs when she was brought over this afternoon - understandably a little spooked but still, far braver than the Crazy. She's just as friendly as your average Cornish Rex (that is to say, puppyishly inquisitive, playful and friendly), but a little testier: she hisses more readily and even growls, although not very threateningly (and she still seems to be non-violent; it's just a particularly emphatic message that she doesn't want to be picked up).

She's three, which is fully-grown and old enough for her coat to have started fading from pure black to charcoal grey, but still extremely young as these things go, so she's rather kittenish. She's also a registered Cornish Rex like Lily and Tea, but, like Tea, had to be fixed and retired for health problems (in her case, the uterus. In Tea's, dermatitis); she comes to us from a local Rex breeder who was having Problems in the Home due to personality conflicts between the starlets. So meet...









This video is mostly uneventful but does provide a partial tour of our freshly-cleaned apartment? Anyway, I told Wax I was going to delete it because the cats refused to camwhore in it, and she was like, "It's funny! Post it!" So here it is... The Blair Cats Project.

Comments

[vass]

She's beautiful.

[cimorene]

She really is. Her conformation and stuff is pretty much perfect for the breed, and the grey-black fur is so soft and glossy and with the curls it sort of seems to shimmer.

[bluesbell]

KITTEH! She is so cute. Can't wait to meet her!

[cimorene]

Dude, right now she's acting nearly as crazy as the Crazy. I hope it's just first-day nerves. That might be more insanity than our household can handle.

[anglepoiselamp]

Maybe the Crazy will decide to become a guru to the new kitteh and teach her The Way Of The Crazy? In any case, I also can't wait to meet her. :)

[cimorene]

Well not yet. Maybe, though! Yesterday's encounter was like this:

ARWEN: O HAI! LETS B FRIENDS!
TEA: What the fuck?
[a flurry of hissing and blurry little tiny paws]
TEA: [stalks away with dignity]

One minute later

TEA is perching grumpily on the bed.
ARWEN, sticking her head up like a groundhog: O HAI AGIN
TEA: BIIIIIIIIIIITCH.
ARWEN: But -
TEA: FUCK OFF.
ARWEN: U sure?
TEA: BIIIIITCH.
ARWEN: [gives up]
TEA: [immediately goes to sleep]

[nicocoer]

She's Gorgeous! Aw!

[northern]

Congratulations on the new cat! She's beautiful, and will likely become friendlier in a while, heh.

[brownbetty]

She looks very pretty! Is the dark-in-front stripey-in-back thing just how she fades? Will she eventually be all stripey?

[cimorene]

No, the fading was just to dark grey and apparently it happens to a lot of cats who are born black - in her case, pretty fast. But the back is pretty completely silvery and there's a rather sharp line at the shoulders, so perhaps she'll just stay like this. (We're not really experts!) She's not striped; those are ripples because Cornish Rex fur is curly.