Pet Projects

as if I could take care of myself or my kid. Hell, if I could do that I'd have it made. But isn't it funny how taking on one more task sometimes may be the very thing one needs to do to appreciate the new days forward?

I have a new roommate. I have a small enough room as it is and not because it is small so much that I have to keep many things in it that would be considered not bedroom possessions. I live for the most part out of my room by choice as I suffer a different sort of OCD than my brother does. I'm a counter and organizer and hoarder and he's a cleaner and picker. Oil and water if you ask me but we manage without brawls or stitches! (lol) Well, back to the roomie. I have a small patch of floor no bigger than maybe five feet square and now my roomie occupies another foot square of it. She's tiny and sick. My brother's family's cat, Sophie, and her sister were his only two felines until I brought my five "kids". She never comes out  of the kids room and doesn't act social. Her sister keeps sentry over her as they have a way of protecting their own and this one needs so much right now. She hasn't been abused or neglected but she is used to being an outdoor cat and never was fixed. Her and her sister, Misty, were strays at one time and my brother being who he is took them in like I did my five. My hubby, Iggy, was a kitten from a litter of his some ten odd years ago.

The family hasn't done anything wrong, it's just that the critters are small for their kind. I believe originally they were the meek of the litter they came from outdoors a few years back, but now the roomie is even more small, gaunt and anemic from fleas carried in the usual way on clothing legs and the dog's tail. Her sister managed to thrive whereas she hasn't and now her only hope, with our meager incomes and inability to pay exorbitant veterinary bills is my skill at breathing life into the lifeless. Laugh if you will I have done it before. I have cured brown recluse bites that were told to be incurable without anti-venin and saved many a human critter from near death as well as the four-legged family members. I even have breathed life into an impotent man or two but that's another story (chuckles). She is very gaunt and lost most of her hair and body weight but has this will that amazes me and this pep that makes you believe she doesn't even know she's sick if it weren't for the pain she is in. Bro and I got a pet carrier and some supplies at my insistence and in my room is where she will stay until she is calm and de-stressed so she can handle the medication and treatment. She needs lipids and solid milk and vitamins and such to replace what she lost and a "no harassment" zone to keep her nerves down. I have been afraid of her since I have been here as she is not declawed and I am used to most of mine being declawed for their own protection as well as the protection of the kids. It doesn't help that she's anti-social but I understand how and why she is that way. It's a self defense mechanism because of her ailing state and she fears the enormity of entities in the house. Plain outright, cats don't adjust well to change. The funny thing is she clings to me for dear life growling her discomfort and her warnings of what she thinks she will do if I do something she disapproves of. She's all sulphur and fire and cute even without her hair and she has her moments where she gives in, albeit a little unyielding, and allows me to pet and inspect her and so on.

It's always the most brutally vicious and crotchety of animals that manages to wind up being the ones that gravitate to me. The same goes for my brother as he and I have always had that gift. His twin sister not so. And even dogs too come to think of it, which annoys the fuck out of me as I am not particularly a dog person but they sense it and all 100% are out on a campaign to "win me over" as they shove their wet icky faces onto my knees and look up at me as if that would ever work. It didn't for my own offspring and it certainly doesn't for dogs! They are smelly but that's because I am "put off" by their scents much in the same way a lot of people are put off by a cat box. Each will tout their own version of why their cat, dog, bird, fish, snake, insect, rodent is the best possible candidate to adopt. A pet is just that and my new pet project may be more than I was willing to do the last couple of months but we need each other. I need to feel a sense of accomplishment and help her because to look at her will make you cry. To hold her will make you weep and when she settles down and ceases her growling and looks at you contently and closes her eyes because she feels safe in your arms and comforted, she'll make you smile. She's got her won secret little friend even if her sister and her talk about me behind my back.~mobe's love to her all and her all to her loves.