How I Lost Lola :(((

I had her for 5 weeks and then diwali came. Over all the time she stayed with us, we came to know of the clause in housing society where pets are banned for tenants and also some people's questionable complaining faces. We never wanted a pet, we were just waiting for her to fully grow up, get strong on her feet, what we never realized was she grew on us. The things I hated about her became the adorable funny stories, sounds like some old parent but yes this is what it means to have a pet, they are a new member to the family. Despite all this, I posted her pictures everywhere if anyone could adopt her. She was the most adorable pet ever. I was planning on getting her vaccinated, dewormed and all ready to be the perfect kid to take home. Finally the day to leave came and no one called for adoption. 

Train was at 9 pm and till 4 pm we had no idea what to do. We could always leave her with the petzmart or some cat boarding, all of them said the word cage which didn't quite appeal to us. Don's misjudge, we are the most horrible awful lame pathetic people for what we did to her. It is one of those days you regret the most. I wish we had cancelled the ticket, I wish we just missed the train or got in touch with at least someone in our housing society to take care of her. 

At 4 pm, we started knocking on doors of our friends who by the way were out for diwali too. Sadly, my husband who loved her at the peak still couldn't defy society in which we live so we headed to blue cross, she started screaming and got terribly scared. We returned half way.

At about 5 pm after coming from blue cross half way we tried leaving her in the garden, after 2 hours when we went she was on her way back home to us. And that is why blue cross was the last option. 

 So finally after me crying for hours to take her to petzmart, at least I could see her again and my husband arguing how uncomfortable and torturous it could be for lola we settled on giving her to our neighbors who would take her to bluecross. Finally the verdict was out. We were leaving her forever. When I think of it, it kind of pierces through my heart how I could agree to such stupid idiotic insensitive decision. We just were weakest and didn't deserve her.  Still when I am reminded of lola, people come and enquire about her, my eyes are filled with tears. I don't know what to say, I know what else I could have done. It makes us guilty to the core. 

We left and lola was in my neighbor's arms. I cried in train, its just too sad to  handle but for her it was a life threatening situation. She just couldn't anticipate i guess. Well they took her to blue cross and called us to tell that it was horrible there, cages full of animals , even they didn't have the heart to leave her seeing the conditions. The best viable option , garden of the campus full of people who loved her and fed her. It seemed more safer. I somewhere had it in my heart, i am never gonna meet her again. So tears came running on cheeks making me red again. 

They left her in garden. And then we returned after a week hoping to find her. That never happened, people had her pictures on mobile, guard, maintenance people every person had fed her seen her took care of her, they all remembered her. Everyone had the same answer, she comes regularly, you will get her back but we haven't spotted her for two days. 

Well I wandered for three days asking every guard, every gardener, sweeper if they had seen her, same answer we saw her and she just vanished.

Ultimately, a member of committee told me your kitten entered someone's house and they complained. I met a kid in the morning and she told me there was an uncle who told her the kitten scratched the baby and he wanted her on the road. After that conversation, next day she was gone, just out of the campus forever.

We still don't know where he left her, why he couldn't let her be ? Now that guy is after a stray dog whom everyone loves in campus, he has called municipal authorities to take him away too.

I am not blaming him or any other guy, we are the culprits, everyday when i cross the garden or go outside market or shopping nearby, my eyes are looking for her. Have the courage to keep a pet, we never accepted her as the pet, just a stray we were taking care of. Its a payback for us. Everytime I have to discuss her, tears come rolling out. We were selfish to leaver her abandoned, and that other guy was selfish to just leave her outside to struggle. The only one who still suffers the most is lola.  I just hope she found a better responsible family and gets loved a lot. Her food, her toys make me miserable every moment. Its a punishment for us, a forever void created by her. Sentenced to guilt imprisonment for life with no parole. 

I miss her a lot. 

Things I Hate About LOla

Lola is my kitten, she's four months old and according to me she's matured way too fast. From cuddly adorable child to perfect running teenager, she kept us glued to her. Now that we can visualize how next 10 years with her could be, i realized it was a grave mistake. Dog people should go for dogs for all the right reasons. Sometimes, i can't get enough of her, i just wanna squeeze her and hug her  other time i hate her for not reciprocating the love we shower on her every second. 

So now I know why people won't prefer cats. For me, the reasons why i don't enjoy having kitten are :

1) Cats just don't care : Yeah they don't, there are people blabbing about how their cat sensed the mood and came to them in need, may be the cat was sleepy or on catnip. They just stare, keep staring till you stop crying or feel awkward being all sentimental before a freaky creature. Recently, she's been responding to our calls but i am pretty sure if someone breaks in and kills us, if she has to she will eat the eyes first. 

2) Cats use us as staff : They do consider humans their staff. So occasionally they might compliment their staff by spending time with them or sleeping on their lap or playing with them but don't get too needy, its just to keep you on toes. They are here for food and comfort, quite straightforward creatures. Try to cuddle them when they are alone and you will know who's living in whose house. Its their terms and conditions we abide by. Its the nature of the cat, no can't change it. 

3) Cats don't acknowledge your presence : This is the worst part, i get up in the morning and all i would expect is a big meow or at least a cuddle like a dog would do but no you have to reach out to them. Yeah lola does come to us in the morning and meows but thats because its meal time, if you leave food outside all we see on waking up is her scratching the door to go out. That whole warm welcome is dog's thing, they make you feel special.Cats make you feel ordinary, plain mundane lazy ordinary. 

4) Cats are so horny :  I don't like her when she is horny, all rolling around, crying out for other cats to come to garden and do her. Its so sick for four month old kitten. Its like a nine month old types on facebook- wanted someone anyone for sex. Ewww its so yucky, we don't want to spay her, we want her to have kittens some time because she is kinda pretty. We can't afford to keep her inside, she makes extreme sad sounds if in house. Its just embarrassing and irritating to be around a horny one. Why god why do they have to reach puberty so soon? 

5) Cats just need lap : Anyone comes to our house and lola goes to sleep on their lap. Their is no specific bond we share, she will sit sleep play with just any other human being. I have seen her cuddling to strangers giving her food and following them to the houses. Its like there is no special thing, just food comfort sleep. I hate the fact she could adjust to any house any time. 

6) Cats are so choosy : While a dog would eat most of the things, cat would rather die than eat something they don't like. They are wild about meat and like it fresh. Just yesterday she was in balcony and caught a helicopter and brought it inside. We of course tried to make her let it go, but the meows grew louder until we let her go to balcony to kill it completely and eat it. She keeps eating spiders like crazy. Its so gross to find wings of animals inside a vegetarian house. As soon as the cat starts hunting, they prefer warm fresh animals, not homemade or bought cat food. 

7) Cats jump a lot, they just don't listen : Yeah, i know its instinctive but she jumps a lot and worse than that, she just won't learn from water splashes or yelling. She thinks we have gone mad and raving about some stupid incident. Worse than that, she makes you feel so angry that you literally want to just throw her out.

8) Cats make you feel used : Its so painful to be caring for someone, to wait for someone to return home when you know you are alone in this. They are way too independent and don't like being bothered or involved in your petty human activities. On rare occasions they play hide and seek or ball , ahh don't be overwhelmed its for their own amusement and agility, not for your entertainment. They do nothing for you, nothing at all. They won't even fake it.

9) Cats have no expressions : They are so expressionless, you don't know what's going on in those evil minds of theirs. The only expressions are through meows when they want to sleep or eat or get out or get hurt. All for them. Other than that, people say they kiss by blinking but come on its just something for a cat lover to believe in. They are wild, all they have to do is eat and fuck and sleep. That's it. 

10) Cats will escape eventually : All cats are bound to escape, no matter how much you love them or take care, like teenagers they want to run off, have a separate litter of kittens with a lot of male cats. As soon as they enter heat, they want to run away somewhere far where they could be away from the so called staff. Whenever they get a chance, they run and take up other neighbors as new staff. They don't miss owners. They don't consider them owners. They run to them when they come to tell them they missed the caring nurturing staff. Its just nature. 

Cats are not smart :P

I know there are a lot of cat lovers out there who go on blogging about how wonderfully smart and talented cats are, how cats  understand a lot of things, your mood and blah blah. But it is not true. Cats are not smart, their memory is as weak as some ant, seriously after being scolded slapped shouted at for doing the same thing, if they keep repeating it, there is definitely some problem with the brains.

My husband had a dog and he says dog remembered everything, he knew when my husband would come, he knew where not to go, sit , jump, play. He told him and the dog would never do it again. So this triggers two statements from cat lovers- either dog is dumb enough to follow instructions and remember them so the master won't get angry and their superior cats are smart to not listen to one who feeds them and go around messing things so they can be shown out door or may be they think they are too cute to get their way back. Their is loads of crap about how cats are individuals, we should respect their individuality , appreciate their freedom and choice of coming to us when they want to.

The only conclusion that came out of my experience with cat is they are mean, selfish and way too aloof. I mean sure if you are old or alone and need something like human to fill the space with, have a cat. But if you want a pet, a real loving one, get a puppy. I had five of them and they would simply follow me for no apparent reason of food or shelter. They just loved and wanted someone to play with. My husband enters and lola won't even pay attention some days, i hate it because he expects her to at least come and meow but she won't , but when she is hungry or sleepy, she just rolls around him, on his lap, on his neck. This is what she does all the time. Its like a human baby, they poop , they pee, they eat but they want to play with other kids and only return home when they are exhausted or hungry. So weirdly similar. Hmmm, i am not angry, i am just wondering at the difference in nature of pets. 

Since she has grown, she wants to go outside so so bad she keeps meowing for an hour if she has to. We leave her in the garden and mostly we find her roaming anywhere but garden, no where close to our house. She never wants to come in except when she is hungry or wants to sleep. That's the kind of behavior i read about when people said they treat us like staff. All she cares about is her comfort, her play time. Its like she is in heat too. She keeps rolling on floor, doing strange awkward things and meows when in garden.  I am pretty sure one of these days she will jump up the fence and run away. Just vanish with some other male cat. 

Huh, but that's what animals are supposed to do, i have made my peace with it. I know one day she will go and never look back.What scares me the most is if she gets pregnant or gets hurt playing in wild. Believe me, they are not smart, they are just wild and would eat their owner if it comes to it. 

Lola is too greedy :)

Well we had her for two days and after a lot of google advice, we considered getting cat food till we get her a nice loving home. We can't have her because a) She poops a lot b) She keeps peeing pooping on bean bags c) We are not responsible parents and kittens are like human babies, they need a looooot of affection and time and patience d) Gotta travel a lot so can't arrange for caretakers every time we go.

So my husband went and got nice whiskas ocean fish flavour food and she loves it. She is majorly hooked addicted to the food. She loves it so much that every time we go to kitchen she keeps mewing mewing till we get irritated. Her hunger won't end, but the packet's contents ended in a week. Huh, well she climbs on my husband, we haven't got her declawed yet, so there is a lot of scratch marks on his legs too. He is kinda frustrated over the whole episode but loves her to the core. 

First day was good, she was quiet, she was playing, she was sleeping a lot but second day she kind of opened up and started jumping on our home theatre, ps3 and tried to chew cordless. No matter how much we shout at her, say no, she won't stop this. Recently her most irritating thing is she keeps playing shoe laces of my husband's shoes when he is going out for office. She won't let him tie it. It does get to nerves no matter how much you adore her. Never imagined how much problematic, troublesome a kitten could be. Obviously she is better than a human baby because she won't cry in night and wakes up in the morning directly, poops in her litter box most of the time, plays on her own still there is always something you could want more. 

I have already mentioned her basket of goodies with 3 balls, headphone and teddy. This is how much she loves her basket.

Sorry, she keeps moving around, we couldn't get a clear one. 

Here is the video of how she plays with all of the things in it. I am going to add different videos with different toys. Its too much lola but that's what the blog is about, can't get over lola. 

Poor Stray Lola finds me

Heyy I just got a kitten and I am all bruised up because of her scratches, they are on neck, on legs, on hands she never misses an opportunity to scratch us. Here are a few pictures of our devil kitty

I found her playing in our campus tormented by some kids. Took her home and waited for her mother to show up. Unfortunately the mother hasn't been spotted yet and she has adjusted so well that she sleeps on our bed curled up on my husband's neck. 

Me n my husband are dog people, we never thought we will keep a cat, their eyes are so scary, their nails are sharp and they are kind of mean too. But lola had her plans to stay for long.

At first, I just kept her for noon when i went to gym and left her back in garden. But then one day my hubby arrived earlier and started playing with her. He is so much into her, he won't let her sleep alone, he takes constant care of her. Well on his defense, lola is way too adorable, when she has to play she passes ball around, sits in her basket and eats it, chases earphones and sleeps in my husband's arms. And after all she is a kid so well maybe she's considering us parents. 

So i am dedicating this blog to lola and her videos, pics. Everything I can get her to do. Just for fun this could be the only pet we have in our life. We are looking for someone to adopt her, but sadly in india noone is really into this adoption thing. 

Here is the first video of her