Our new family member!



Is a girl! Moxie.

    2 weeks ago, on a Saturday morning, we decided to drop the dogs off at Matts parents house so they could play and get energy out and have time with their Grandpa. And I wanted to a bit more bed space for one night since most nights involved me curled up with a golden on my feet and a Snickers by my side. While at the Bard house for a quick drop and go (impossible to accomplish but one can hope), Snickers was howeling outside. While he may be a beagle and it may be common for him, something about it seemed to be attention getting, and annoying. I sent Matt out to shut him up or see what he wanted. The dogs were all fixated on the neighbors shed. My mother in law said the dogs have seemed fixated on it for a few days now, so one could assume it must be bunnies. We have/had bunnies under our shed that Snickers liked to tell us about. So chit chattin away while Matt shuts up the annoying beagle and Matt comes in holding something. Please dont be a bunny was the first thing I though. "Its a kitten!" Matts said and held it out. Shit. He handed it to his mom and went to go look for more. "you can bring it to the no kill animal shelter and a kitten would get adopted right away". My mother in law must not have seen the look on her sons face. The look that told me this kitten was ours for the keeping and he was in complete love. We got the kitten safe from the dogs and into a place she couldnt get out of. I went outside to help Matt look for more but I am so thankful we only found one. We would have only kept one but would have had to figure out what to do with more. Matt told me how he found her. He saw what Snickers and Toby were barking at and noticed it was indeed a kitten. She climbed up the tree and Matt had to get on the fence. Stand on the top of the fence and reach up to a branch that was just almost out of his reach. He saved her and she probably looked at him with her cute eyes and purred and of course he melted.

    I didnt even try to convince him of not keeping her. I asked him if he wanted me to call the vet and get an appointment and he said yes. We didnt discuss keeping her or not, we just took her home and got some kitty food on the way. The timing sucks with a baby coming any time but a cat isnt hard to care for. We have been keeping her in the babies room at night just to be with her food and litter box and safe from Olly since Olly doesnt always want to play. She had ear mites and we gave her daily drops but the vet said she was too young for the meds as is and they may not work. If she still has ear mites this week, we get to put her on more meds. She was to young to get shots 2 weeks ago, 5 weeks old, so we will get some this week. She has no worms and tested negative for everything else. She is ours now.

    Moxie enjoys food. Almost as much as the beagle, if not just as much. She tries really hard to get onto your plate. She enjoys her food, the dogs food, and our food. Olly only eats his food and his brand and his treats and only one brand of treats. Olly wont even go for your milk and when he does, he licks ot once or twice and walks away. Moxie likes ANYTHING. Poor Snickers has another begger friend to compete with.

    Moxie likes to play. At 7 weeks old, she enjoys string, fingers, toes, dog ears, dog tails, cat tails, legs, arms, hair, dog fluff, cardboard boxes, and her favorite toy is the string to the blinds on the back door. She now is allowed to play with Olly, per his permision that is. Olly still hisses at her on occasion but after 2 weeks, they also play together. Chase each other around or Moxie just jumps on him and he looks at her like "thats all you got? you call yourself a cat?" Moxie plays with Snickers. He didnt understand how to play with a 1.2lb animal but she didnt care. She eggs him on and he chases her. He gets pissed when she goes under something and he cant fallow. He looks at you like "do something! I  wanted to keep playing with her". Simon is her best friend. Probably because he doesnt get bothered by her and she can do whatever she pleases to him. She runs and jumps on his head to get his ears. She jumps on his tail. She plays with his tail when he lays down. She wraps herself around his arms and legs and plays while he just lays there. He doesnt chase her or try to play because he cant really play with something so tiny. But he lets her do whatever she wants to him and he loves it.

    Moxie likes to cuddle. She cuddles with Matt, me, and Simon. Anytime she goes near Snickers, he just things she wants to play so they rarely cuddle. Her favorite way to cuddle though, is Simon. I could take pictures all day of them cuddeling in different rooms or places.