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Shellyversary!
It's officially been a year of me having Shelly in my house with me! (Or, well, her fancy name with the vet is Torellella Cloudina, but those are just names of small shellies, so she's still Shelly. Or more likely the Shellicle Cat or my Shelly-Belly or Fee Fi Fo Felly Shelly. But that's how it goes with the naming of cats.)
We had her one-year vet checkup and shots today. She was very brave.
She tells me the vet says she's perfectly healthy but I should feed her more treats, so we're going to have to work on that.
One thing I have noticed in the past year is that she really likes music! Basically if I'm watching cute videos online and there's one that has the sort of peppy, melodic instrumental background music - you know the sort of thing! - she will crawl out from wherever she is and get as close to my phone as she can and start purring. But only that sort of music! Rock does not work, sea shanties do not work, Mozart does not work. The other day we stumbled on a cute video where the background music was the Pink Panther Theme and she was so happy so I decided to see if it really holds up and we have listened through several entire Mancini albums on youtube together. So I guess I am embarking on a journey to explore lounge music and its kin. I will have to try her on classic big bands and '60s electronica and maybe some of the other more melodic instrumental stuff I like and see where our tastes overlap. I guess her season two theme song is the Pink Panther! Who knows maybe it'll finally motivate me to fix my speaker setup (but then she might cuddle the speakers instead of me...)
I am still constantly amazed that even without knowing what I was doing I managed to adopt the best cat in the whole shelter. How does that work??
We had her one-year vet checkup and shots today. She was very brave.
She tells me the vet says she's perfectly healthy but I should feed her more treats, so we're going to have to work on that.
One thing I have noticed in the past year is that she really likes music! Basically if I'm watching cute videos online and there's one that has the sort of peppy, melodic instrumental background music - you know the sort of thing! - she will crawl out from wherever she is and get as close to my phone as she can and start purring. But only that sort of music! Rock does not work, sea shanties do not work, Mozart does not work. The other day we stumbled on a cute video where the background music was the Pink Panther Theme and she was so happy so I decided to see if it really holds up and we have listened through several entire Mancini albums on youtube together. So I guess I am embarking on a journey to explore lounge music and its kin. I will have to try her on classic big bands and '60s electronica and maybe some of the other more melodic instrumental stuff I like and see where our tastes overlap. I guess her season two theme song is the Pink Panther! Who knows maybe it'll finally motivate me to fix my speaker setup (but then she might cuddle the speakers instead of me...)
I am still constantly amazed that even without knowing what I was doing I managed to adopt the best cat in the whole shelter. How does that work??