A year ago my husband and I adopted our first living baby....our fur baby, Miss Farrah! You may wonder, what does this have to do with our journey, but I can tell you it has so much. Last year me and one of my friends from grade school had been becoming pretty close through Facebook because she and I both had miscarriages around the same time as each other. When my husband and I found out we were losing a fourth baby on October 7th, 2013, I told him I wanted a pet. I needed something that I could nurture and feel a motherly connection to on this Earth. The friend that I mentioned had posted a picture of this adorable orange stripped kitten that her mom was fostering until she could be adopted. I saw the picture and fell in love instantly! My husband really wanted a dog, but when I showed him the picture of the kitten he kinda fell in love too:) So on October 12, 2013 I drove to my friend's mom's house to pick up our new daughter! She was 3 months old when we got her. She was a very important part in my recovery process throughout my miscarriage. As a kitten, she was so loving and was a cuddle bug.
It's been an amazing experience watching our little kitten grow into a cat. It's been fun to watch how her personality is changing. What is even more amazing is knowing all of her likes/dislikes and knowing just how she is going to react to a given situation. I assume this is much like watching a baby grow and meet milestones and become their own individualized person.
Over the past year this what we have learned about our fur baby:
1.) She loves Daddy more than Mommy :( That's right....we have a Daddy's Girl and it makes me sad!
3.) Farrah loves loves loves attacking feet and even likes to wrap herself around our legs to give us hugs when we get home from work.
4.) She would much rather drink water from the bathroom tub facet than her own water bowl. She spends a lot of time in the bathtub waiting on water to drip.
6.) Farrah might have hallucinations. She attacks things that aren't there and wiggles her but when she gets really excited over nothing.
7.) I should know better than to leave my hair tie on the bathroom counter when I get into the shower because when I get out it won't be there anymore-she will have it in the living room playing with it. That never fails. She plays with my hair ties more than her own toys.
8.) Sometimes I think our cat is on crack with the amount of energy she gets from out of no where. She can be as calm as a cucumber and then all of the sudden starts running around like a chicken with it's head cut off.
9.) Orange cat can jump. She is so curious about things that are high up that she will jump 5 feet onto any surface to see what is up there.
10.) She hates to cuddle-definitely not a lap cat. But the cutest site ever is on Sundays when Alex and I are laying on the couch watching t.v. and shes right there next to us or in between us taking a nap and staring at us.
11.) If we shut Farrah out of our room, she will bang on our door all night long until we let her in. If we are outside having a camp fire, she will bang on the screen door because she knows we are out there. She has recently started banging on the shower door while we are taking a shower. I think she loves being around us:)
12.) I took Farrah outside with me twice and held her in my arms on the front porch, now any chance she gets she tries to sneak by us to get outside when we open the door. She got out once and didn't know but found her an hour an a half later sitting next to the car that was parked in front of our house. She didn't even try to run away! We have such a good cat!
I am sure I could go on and on. I just felt like a fun post today since nothing else is going on right now with our Egg Donor Cycle. In a few days we should have some more news for you though. Stay tuned!
1 comment:
I bet Farrah would have a blast with my 3 babies. Well 2 of them at least. Mr. Cuddles, my niece named him, is 9 so he doesnt play as much. We adopted Lincoln last year when he was only 2.5 months old, June 2013. He doesnt like to cuddle until I lay in bed, then he climbs on my back and lays there. But He LOVES to play. We just adopted Haven about 3 weeks ago. Not sure how old she is. She was dumped on our street and found my friend and I while we were walking. She followed me home and I convinced my hubby to keep her. She is still a kitten and I would guess about 3 months or so. She is very playful and loves to cuddle. But she is like Farrah and loves to attack our feet if we arent playing with her. She also loves to chew on your finger to fall asleep! Thanks for sharing about your fur baby. people like us understand more how much we can love our fur babies as much as most people love their human babies! continued prayers for you!
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