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robotech_master ([personal profile] robotech_master) wrote2008-07-03 10:48 pm

Evening notes

Well, I've cleared the floor of my living room, thoroughly vacuumed, and sprayed the carpet with Precor 2000 professional-exterminator-grade flea spray. Boom. Living room flea problem gone. (Though I'll need to re-spray in a couple of weeks to catch the fleas that haven't hatched out yet.)

The problem is, I now need to do the same thing for my bedroom. My bedroom floor hasn't been clean in literally years. Since I moved in, easily. I have a lot of junk. But I'm going to need to clean up and be ruthless because I have a bunch of fleas in there too, from the cat sneaking in when I wasn't looking.

Guess I'll get on it tomorrow, after I see the vet about retrieving Gumdrop's remains. I'm not looking forward to that. But at least I had already arranged to have my parents come visit me on Sunday. They can take her body with them back to the farm and when they have a backhoe come in to work on their new house, they can have it dig a hole to bury her in. It feels right to bury her there, in the place where I grew up.

Not wanting to spend too much time alone in the apartment, I'm looking into adopting another cat—a year and a half old male Bengal from a rescue agency near here. He looks gorgeous from the photos. I hope they'll let me. If not, I'll adopt a couple of the kittens that a neighbor's cat had. (Perhaps I should adopt one of them anyway, to keep the Bengal company.)

Well, off to bed.

[identity profile] foomf.livejournal.com 2008-07-04 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Be careful introducing a kitten into a place with a male cat. Even neutered, toms have an instinct that sometimes leads them to kill the kittens of potentially competing males. This isn't to say they can't be friendly, but it takes a very careful, monitored introduction.