Greetings, animal lovers! After a seven-year gap, this site is officially reopened. Meet Dmitri and Svetlana, the two newest members of the family here.
Their previous human was moving out of state, and needed to get them to a permanent home. And I needed a new cat, although not necessarily this soon. So, one of those serendipitous situations where everybody comes out ahead.
My previous cat Cindy has just been euthanized on Monday of this week, and I got these guys Wednesday evening. Still digesting it all..
But here they are, ready or not. Ready or not goes for them as well. They're still digesting as well. In true feline fasion, they've gone into hiding on a couple occasions. I'm pretty chill about it now, but the first time got on my last nerves.
Emotions have kinda run high this week, having lost my feline housemate of almost 14 years. I miss her even in the midst of all this new feline energy. I'll probably do a blog about her. In the meantime, there's plenty of Cindy down the page.
So back to Dmitri and Svetlana. As far as coming up with their names, I just let the animal's qualities speak to me, and something comes forth. And it's always a proper name, never Fido or Fluffy. I'm sure there's some underlying psychological reason for that. For what it's worth, this is the only time my cats have gotten so-called foreign names. But they look exotic to me, with the black fur and bright green eyes. With the female, I first thought Natasha. But then that would make her brother Boris, and he didn't seem like a Boris(whatever that's supposed to mean!), and even if he did, Boris and Natasha has been done. Wanted to be original, or at least closer to it.
So a bit of modification and Dmitri and Svetlana were born.
The name Dmitri I remember from the movie Taras Bulba, which I saw as a kid. Cool name. I tried to watch that movie as an adult, and Tony Curtis's Brooklyn accent ruined it for me.
So there you go. They're brother and sister, and play/wrestle just like a couple of feline siblings. I've only gotten a brief demonstration in the short time we've had together. I had two girls for over a decade preceding, who also wrestled, but with them it was more competitive, more cut-throat. I didn't see that edge with these two. Then again, I've only been privy to one of their matches,
Anyway, here we go with another animal adventure. It's a good thing, gets you out of your own head --at least enough to care for something other than yourself. More to come.
