So, yesterday afternoon, after lots of snuggling and kissing, I put Norbie’s harness on him, packed him in the carrier, and off we went to the shelter. Where we met up with his Mom, the paperwork was signed, the last kiss was given, and that silly, sweet boy has gone to Chicago to live! Yep, his Mom is a Love & Hisses reader, and when she and Norbie stopped for the night she emailed to let me know that he’d done beautifully during the drive, though as you can see here he was SUPER stressed out.
Oh, Norbie. Stop stressing!
Crazy eyes!
Hopefully today’s drive will go as smoothly as yesterday’s did. I am so thrilled that Norbie is on his way home and that he is (I suspect) going to be spoiled rotten!
(Thanks for the update and pictures, Kirsten!)
Something of interest to me is that although Norbie has never been around dogs, when the two shelter dogs came sniffing around his carrier yesterday, he didn’t freak out at all. He wasn’t scared, he wasn’t frozen in terror, he didn’t floof up or hiss or growl, he just sat there in his meatloaf position and looked at them like “Yeah? So?” For that matter, Arya (who is now Daisy) reacted the same way the day she went home, didn’t stress out at all when they came over to sniff around the carrier. Maybe I need to market my fosters with “Travels well! Ain’t skeered o’ nothin’!”
PS: I have more pictures of Norbie that I’ve taken, so you’ll be seeing his sweet face for at least a few days next week!
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Oh, these kittens.
These sweet little kittens.
And sweet, sweet Mama Livia.
“She thinks I’m SWEET! Bwahahahah!” (She is a total sweetheart, believe me.)
“Yeah, sure. We’re sweet. ::wink::” (They ARE!)
Pile o’ babies.
Someone’s always keeping an eye on me (although to be honest, I don’t think they can really focus just yet.)
Or maybe they CAN focus. What do I know?
“What?”
There goes Paulie Walnuts, laughing at his own joke again.
Meadow, out cold.
Time to eat!
Carmela, from the side.
Silvio on the left, Adriana in the center, and Meadow on the right.
“We see you, lady.”
“MAMA! I’m HUNGRY! Stop MOVING!”
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Is it time for a Kitten Mosh Pit video? I think it is! (It is EXHAUSTING, being that cute. You know it is!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Previously
2012: I guess it’s a Polly kinda day.
2011: Cavorting Time (with George and Gracie.)
2010: Moxie has a crush.
2009: “Halp! Halp! CALL 911!!!”
2008: No entry.
2007: Again with the crazy orangutan arms.
2006: POOP IN THE LITTER BOX!
2005: So for the rest of their stay at Casa And3rson, Sad Eyes is going to become Sugarbutt, Little Cal is becoming Callie, and Barrett is becoming Bear, because he looks like a little bear. Smitty’s going to remain Smitty, ’cause that’s a pretty good name.