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A feline love story with a happy end
May. 24th, 2008 08:36 amAnd, like most happy ends, this is also a happy beginning. Maggie is now Jasmin's cat.
Jasmin and Stephan, who is a happy stay-at-home husband, have been expressing the wish for a pet for quite some time. They only weren't quite sure whether they wanted a cat or a dog.
After a holiday on Thursday (not for the visa section but for the rest of the Embassy), and after the presidential visit, during which Jasmin wasn't at the Embassy at all, we were happily reunited yesterday. Due to her absence Jasmin hadn't yet heard about Maggie the Kitten, so I showed her the pics and then the original. A phone call to Stephan later, Maggie had a home.
Gabriele and I took her to the vet, who pronounced her dirty but vermin-free and healthy. She was generally cleaned up, given a vitamin shot, de-worming pill and a prophylactic dose of anti-vermin-something (fluid you put on the skin). Then we bought the basic kitten equipment of litter box, carrier, food bowls and food, and took everything back to the Embassy.
Since I was a bit worried that poor Maggie, after our vile betrayal of first cuddling her and then taking her to be prodded and poked by the vet, might hide and prove difficult, if not impossible to find, I decided that she was to spend the afternoon at my office. And let me tell you, I had a lot of cooing, baby-talking visitors. And Maggie was a very, very tired kitten, when her new mum finally took her home.
BTW, it's really very funny to watch - if politically incorrect to say so - Turkish people's horror of furry animals. I've seen grown men run away from Doris's Maltese dog (small, white, fluffy and intensely cute). Maggie had the same effect, and it's very hard not to laugh when adults recoil in horror from a handful of kitten.
So everything is fine as far as cats are concerned. The Van cat showed up again yesterday afternoon, after a week of staying away - obviously the Maggie-induced, constant coming and going hadn't been to her taste at all. But yesterday, when we put out some food and clean water, she was there again, and we left her resting after a hefty afternoon snack.
The weekend shall be spent in total laziness. There seems to be a very shy plot bunny, but I'm not sure yet if it wants to be caught. Let's see. It's not as if I'll be bored, if the shy creature continues to elude me.
Jasmin and Stephan, who is a happy stay-at-home husband, have been expressing the wish for a pet for quite some time. They only weren't quite sure whether they wanted a cat or a dog.
After a holiday on Thursday (not for the visa section but for the rest of the Embassy), and after the presidential visit, during which Jasmin wasn't at the Embassy at all, we were happily reunited yesterday. Due to her absence Jasmin hadn't yet heard about Maggie the Kitten, so I showed her the pics and then the original. A phone call to Stephan later, Maggie had a home.
Gabriele and I took her to the vet, who pronounced her dirty but vermin-free and healthy. She was generally cleaned up, given a vitamin shot, de-worming pill and a prophylactic dose of anti-vermin-something (fluid you put on the skin). Then we bought the basic kitten equipment of litter box, carrier, food bowls and food, and took everything back to the Embassy.
Since I was a bit worried that poor Maggie, after our vile betrayal of first cuddling her and then taking her to be prodded and poked by the vet, might hide and prove difficult, if not impossible to find, I decided that she was to spend the afternoon at my office. And let me tell you, I had a lot of cooing, baby-talking visitors. And Maggie was a very, very tired kitten, when her new mum finally took her home.
BTW, it's really very funny to watch - if politically incorrect to say so - Turkish people's horror of furry animals. I've seen grown men run away from Doris's Maltese dog (small, white, fluffy and intensely cute). Maggie had the same effect, and it's very hard not to laugh when adults recoil in horror from a handful of kitten.
So everything is fine as far as cats are concerned. The Van cat showed up again yesterday afternoon, after a week of staying away - obviously the Maggie-induced, constant coming and going hadn't been to her taste at all. But yesterday, when we put out some food and clean water, she was there again, and we left her resting after a hefty afternoon snack.
The weekend shall be spent in total laziness. There seems to be a very shy plot bunny, but I'm not sure yet if it wants to be caught. Let's see. It's not as if I'll be bored, if the shy creature continues to elude me.
