No Water but Many Dogs

There's so much going on! Where to start?

Hmm... well, Minerva the kitten is still doing well in her quirky, anti-statistical way. She's still waaaay too small, but is developing and flourishing otherwise.


She's starting to get bored with the bottle, but hasn't got the hang of solid food yet. That's probably because she REFUSES to even LOOK at any solid food that is not hard, dry kibble. No rice gruel (even with kitten milk in it), no wet kitten food, and not even any dry kibbles that have been soaked in water OR milk. So she only wants to try and eat the hard, dry kibbles, but she's not very good at chewing. Or swallowing.

Sigh.

A local news reporter showed up at work today to take pictures of Minerva and interview me about her. I guess we'll be in the news next week.


In slightly older news, I drove home from work on Friday to find a geyser in our road. Then they closed our road, and then our house lost running water. Uh-oh! Unfortunately and tragically, we discovered we had no water when we were trying to refill the kitten's hot water bottle that keeps her warm. They had the pipes fixed in under five hours, but still, I mean, c'mon, we got kittens here.


Then, on the weekend, we helped out with a big fundraiser for CAPS. It was a dog walkathon that Nay organizes every year. This year we had 37 dogs (and many more people) all go on a walk through our town at the same time, and Nay managed to raise almost $2,700 for the animals with this event, mostly through individual sponsorships.



It was totally fun times, but it turned out to be on the only cold day we've had so far in September. Our little Oliver got cold and had to be put in my jacket, and Nay's new dog Chili, a rescue Chihuahua, had to be put in hers. I had to show her. She's new at little dogs.