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In case you missed it on social media yesterday…
We are adopting Reverb and Rum. (We still need to do the paperwork, and they need their last shots so it’s not official, but close enough.)
Their new names are Magoo (Reverb) and Milo (Rum).
The reasons for making them permanent residents, well, there are a few.
Both have medical issues – unrelated to FIP – that make them less adoptable, if not totally so. Magoo (Reverb) is FIV+, has the cloudy eyes, and has a sneezy, snotty thing going on that we’ve been unable to completely get rid of. Fortunately, it doesn’t affect his life at all, he eats well, he plays and is curious and sweet and friendly. (Side note: Khal is also FIV+ and FIV+ cats can live side by side with FIV- cats with no issues. It takes a deep wound to transfer FIV, and that hasn’t been an issue.)
Milo (Rum) has something medical going on (completely unrelated to FIP) that we are still figuring out. I’m not being coy – I just am not ready to share it until we know more, but ultimately it’s something rare and fixable. I’ll give details in the future once we know how/when we’ll be proceeding.
Secondly, they’ve been out in the house 24/7 for 2 – 3 weeks now, and they’re getting along okay with Charlie and Khal. Milo (Rum) occasionally annoys Charlie or Khal with his lack of personal space, but when they hiss or smack at him, he’s smart enough to understand and back off.
I was fine with Rum as a name, but Fred was adamantly opposed. Neither of us were fans of Reverb as a name. We went through approximately one million names before we settled on Magoo and Milo. They were ALMOST Doc and Marty (Back to the Future), and I tried very hard to convince Fred that we should name Milo Bug or Nibbles because he occasionally bites my feet – apparently my bare toes are irresistible – and I also pushed for Booboo because that’s what I tend to call him, but in the end I think Milo fits him well. Magoo was my suggestion, and I LOVE IT. (Magoo is from the cartoon Mr. Magoo, of course. Milo came from a brief consideration of naming them Milo and Otis – Milo fit Rum, but Otis didn’t fit Reverb, so Magoo he is.)
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Hard to tell from this picture, but Magoo (Reverb) is outside and Milo (Rum) was trying to figure out how THAT happened.
(As permanent residents, we’ve started giving them supervised outside time.)
Fascinated by the big rock. (And I would like to point out that as SOON as I saw this picture, I went out and scrubbed that green gunk off the side of the shed in the background.)
Mutual bath situation.
Milo (Rum) sniffs Magoo’s (Reverb’s) paw to see where he’s been. (Please note the cleaned shed in the background.)
Khal on the table, Magoo (Reverb) in the chair.
Peeping Magoo.
Magoo (Reverb) hanging out with Charlie and Khal.
Milo (Rum) hanging out with Khal.
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Charlie really fills up that couch.
He seems comfy, though!
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Posted on social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr/ Bluesky/Threads) yesterday.
Brudders. (Reverb looks THRILLED, doesn’t he?)
You know the Rumdangle… here’s former foster Dahlia (formerly Hazel) with the Hazel stretch! (Thanks, Tabatha!)
Danglin’ in the sun.
And then there were four. The paperwork hasn’t been done yet, but we are adopting Rum and Reverb. (And they’ve gotten new names – Rum is Milo, Reverb is Magoo.)
Good night innernets. (Milo, formerly known as Rum. If you missed it, we are adopting Rum and Reverb, and they’ve gotten new names.)
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Previously
2025: Sundrop feelin’ sploot-y.
2024: No entry.
2023: I could just squoosh ’em.
2022: Bramble’s all “Excuse you, ma’am, we’re very busy.”
2021: OF COURSE it would be Canasta’s children who figured out how to get back there. Of course.
2020: Pablo with the loony tunes eyes.
2019: “That’s right, son. Knock the toy under the closet door – really get it under there! – and then look sad and pitiful so the humans will open the door to get your toy. I’ll run into the closet and hide in the back so she can’t get me!”
2018: No entry.
2017: “Watchin’ you, lady. Watchin’. YOU.”
2016: Bert Macklin was feeling very hoppy-skippy-jumpy. So he hopped, skipped, and jumped.
2015: “Gonna come over there and slap that camera outta your hands, lady.”
2014: Livia sniffs out the situation.
2013: “I SAID I’M BUSY GROWING MY WHISKERS.”
2012: No entry.
2011: No entry.
2010: “Are there hate rays boring into the back of my head, or am I just imagining that searing pain?”
2009: ::slurrrp::
2008: And Mister Boogers lives to het again.
2007: No entry.
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.