Huey the Kitten!

Well folks, it's happened, we have a kitten! Super yay! I'm SO excited! I love Little Jack so much (more than I thought I would, actually), but I just really love cats. I'm not sure why, but I have a soft spot in my heart for them. I've had three cats growing up and I live with two my last year of college. I really have missed having a cat. Matt and I talked it over and we decided that it was a good time to get one since we want Jack to grow up with a kitten and get used to one while he's still young.

We had to drive to Starkville (30 miles away) to get to a shelter that had kittens. I have nothing against adult cats, but a 10 week old puppy is extremely hyper, so we thought a fast, hyper kitten would adjust better. We both didn't really care what sex, but we both had our color picked out. I love gray tabby kitties, but Matt likes black and white kitties. I don't usually like orange, since the majority of orange cats I have ever known are kind of mean (including my first cat, Tigger). What color is our little kitty? Orange, lol. But he's so adorable. Whether I like the color not, I think it's more important to pick for personality, and while I loved one of the little black and white kittens, we just had to pick the little Huey (his name was Frenchie, but that was absolutely changed!) because he picked us. He came right up to the cage door and would get really upset when Matt would turn away and go somewhere else. Huey liked to follow us along his cage door, so we just had to take him home with us!

He is adjusting well to his new house, I think. He has his own dedicated room, where his food, bed, and litter box (which he already uses!) are, and we put him here when Jack is bothering him too much or we're busy at the moment and can't watch both of them. They're playing well now, but Jack can still get a little rough and they run EVERYWHERE! I'm confident in a few days they'll be playing well together (i.e. Huey egging Jack on and then running up out of the way). And I have noticed that since Jack spend the majority of this afternoon running around with the kitten, he's pretty tired! Hooray!

I'm going to be pretty busy in the next few days (ok, ok... weeks, probably) referring play times, but I'll make sure the dog gets outside a lot for a break from the cat and the cat goes to his room by himself when the dog gets too rough on him. I'm super excited, I will never be bored! I won't have as much down time, obviously, but who needs down time when there is a puppy to train and a kitten to play with!