Pixie is the Devil.

Seriously. The Devil is living inside of her. She went from being a super cute kitten that occasionally tried to get on the table and would kick some stuff off my desk, to a super cute Devil kitten that mauls my feet and legs in the night, and takes craps on our furniture!!

The past couple nights I have been awoken around 12-2 by Pixie 'playing' with my feet and legs through the sheet. She's decided that when I move my legs, she needs to attack them! With her claws out! I have the scratches to prove it!

Then, yesterday when I got home from work, I got a whiff of a strange smell. I thought it was because Pixie may have just used her litter box. Amanda was sleeping on the couch, so I went into the office and thought nothing more of it. Then, when dinner was ready, I decided to put a DVD on. My DVD's are near the couch, and when I went to get one, I noticed that strange smell again. Looking on the couch (with the lights off) I noticed something that was out of place. I turned the lights on, and it was a present from Pixie. I guess she had decided that the new location of her litter box was too far away from her restful spot on the couch, so she just used it instead! We have the type of cushions that have one 'button' in the middle of it, so of course that was where she placed her present. So I'm not too impressed with her right now. But she's still super cute!

Kitten has a cold

Pixie is sick. We first noticed it the first night we had her. All she was doing then was sneezing a couple times. Now she's moved away from the sneezing and into this weird hacking/coughing/trying to remove her own lung type of noise. It was really freaky when I first heard it, but we've gotten used to it now. Amanda took her to the vet on Friday to get her second set of shots, and hopefully find out what was wrong with her. The vet said that she just had a cold, and the hacking noise is her trying to get rid of the stuff she gets in her throat from trying to breath through her stuffed nose. She couldn't get her shots because of the cold, but we got some antibiotics that we have to give her twice a day. I thought it was going to be a struggle to get her to take it, but its not that bad. It's a liquid that we need to inject into her mouth with a syringe (without the needle, just the tube part). We haven't seen her spitting the medicine up yet, so it must not be too bad. The cold makes her pretty easy to find now, cause all we need to do is be quiet for a minute, and you can hear her wheezy breathing. It's not so fun holding her though, cause you never know when she might decide to clear her throat and cover you with her snot.

Other than her cold, she's doing very well. She's made herself quite at home in the apartment, and is very bold. We have to lock her in the bedroom while we have diner, cause she will jump up on the table and want to eat right off our plates! She has also taken a liking to lying on my computer desk when someone is in the office, and she has started kicking things off the desk if they are in the way of her stretching or sleeping. She's crazy, but we love her.

New Pixie pics!

I have just uploaded a bunch more pics of Pixie onto Flickr. You can check them out here. I'll probably also be adding them to Facebook, but that will have to wait until after work, when I can actually get on Facebook.

New kitten has arrived!

Well, it took some fighting, but we got our new kitten last night! I had been calling the Humane Society all afternoon to see if they had been able to get a hold of our landlord to confirm that we are allowed a cat in the apartment, but kept getting the answering machine. Amanda left school around 4:30 and decided to stop into the office at the apartment to see if they had received the call from the Humane Society. They had received the call, but told them that we aren't allowed pets in the building. This was kinda weird, because when we signed the lease, we made sure we were allowed pets (we were told no dogs, but that wasn't a problem), and we have seen many dogs in the hallways, and a few cats. Amanda explained this to the receptionist at the office(the one that took the call from the Humane Society), but she said that people that all leases say no pets on them, and the people that have pets have had them since before the no pet policy (untrue, as we have seen many small puppies). So Amanda went over to our rental agent to ask her about it,but she said we would have to wait till the landlord was in, and he wasn't going to be in till the next day. Amanda was getting pretty upset by now, so she went up and got our lease, brought it down and showed the receptionist that it says nowhere that we aren't pets (turns out we actually could get a dog if we wanted, the only thing in the lease about pets is that we are responsible for them), and she told her to talk to our rental agent. So Amanda showed the lease to our rental agent, and she agreed to call the Humane Society to say that we are allowed a cat. We were still worried, because the person they talked to on the phone didn't seem to know anything about our adoption, and just wrote down our information to give to someone who would know.

We were worried when we got to the Humane Society that they wouldn't have gotten the information that we were allowed a cat, but they did, and we were allowed to take her. Not right away of course, because it was busy, and there were a couple other adoptions in front of us, so we got to spend some time with our new kitten. She didn't seem to like being in the big cage, so we got to take her out, but all she wanted to do was explore, and she was very squirmy and vocal. We each held her for a bit, and then put her in her carrying cage and waited our turn. Things went good after that, and we finally got up to talk to someone, and get all the right information. We left there around 7 and headed home with our new kitten, who wouldn't keep quiet the whole ride home.

One of things we were told was to keep her in the washroom for a couple days, and slowly let her explore the rest of the apartment, but we have a really small washroom, so we decided to let her roam around the whole apartment, and see how she did. She loved it. She seemed a little overwhelmed at first, but was soon off and checking everything out. She quickly discovered the box of toys we had, but seemed more interested in the box for a bit, but then started playing with the toys too. She explored the rest of the apartment (except the office, which is out of bounds for her because it's Buddy's room) and then was happy playing with her toys while Amanda and I watched Pushing Daisys (a really good new show). She would take breaks and sit with us for a bit, but would then be off playing again. When it was bed time, she went and slept in her little bed we got for her. She also slept on the bed with Amanda for a bit. This morning, she decided at 6:00 that she wanted some attention, so she woke me up, and I played with her a bit, but then she got bored and went off exploring again. She's being left on her own today while I'm at work, and Amanda goes to school, and we don't know how she will handle it. We heard her meowing at the door as we left this morning. We kitty-proofed the apartment as much as we could, so there shouldn't be too much that she can get into.

We decided last night that weare going to call her Pixie. No real significance, we just saw it and thought it was a good name. I still want to call her Pixel, but Pixie is close enough.

Here are some pics of her exploring, playing and resting. I'll get more of them up later, probably on Facebook, or Flikr.

Out with the old, in with the new!

Well, mum and dad came home yesterday, so that means that Mitzy also went home. She's gotten very comfortable here, and Amanda and I have gotten used to her being around, and we miss her now that she's gone. Because of this, we went to the Ottawa Humane Society on Saturday, and picked out a kitten! We are going tonight to finish the adoption process and pick her up. We can't wait!! The kitten we have chosen is a 4 month old brown tabby named Betty. I'm not overly happy with that name, so we're trying to come up with a better name for her. If anybody has any good name suggestions for her, please post them in the comments section. I kinda like the name Pixel, but Amanda doesn't really (as she says, the kitten isn't a computer :P). We went out to pickup all the necessary items or her on Saturday, and we've had some stuff donated for her (thanks Erin!). We are supper excited about getting her home. I'm definitely taking lots of pics of her, and I'll be posting some up probably tonight or tomorrow.