Die Buchwalds

With thanks to the good folks at SQPN, specifically Father Roderick, the story of Jack the Depressed Pumpkin:

We here at Casa de Buchwald will be home this evening handing out treats to anyone who shows up at our door in costume. Everyone is “dressing up” this year!! I’ll be in full Hogwarts uniform as Hermione Granger & Ratzi has grudgingly agreed to change his name to Crookshanks for the evening, but that doesn’t guarantee he’ll hang around. Linus, too, has changed his name. He’s now known as Nermal and I think it’s safe to say he’ll eagerly greet EVERYONE tonight. Matt will be a… wait for it… (/me points up to the website address) ninja, with hair because he’s not brave enough to shave his head.

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Today is roughly Linus’s first birthday!

Here he is shortly after he was found:

and the day he came home (snuggled in my Willie Parker jersey!)

and here he is in early June:

I tried to get a birthday picture but so far he’s being uncooperative.

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Linus turned 6mos old over the weekend. It’s hard to believe how fast our tiny little kitten has grown up! He went to the vet today for his “surgery” and also to be re-tested for FIV because his first test when he was only a few mos old was positive. The vet’s office just called and said he did well with surgery and his FIV test was NEGATIVE this time! It’s nice to finally have that peace of mind knowing that both cats are definitely healthy!

Ratzi & Linus are, I think, finally adjusted to life with each other. They chase each other around the house for at least an hour every morning & sometimes I have to remind myself that the house isn’t about to collapse! Ratzi is a little bit jealous & territorial still, but Linus knows who’s boss so it works out OK for the most part. Linus’s favorite toy is still the little stuffed dog that came with him when we got him, although recently he found a little glow-in-the-dark frog that has been keeping him entertained for longer than 5 minutes at a time.

Linus’s “Christmas portrait”

Linus destroyed the gift bag in about 30 seconds… and it only took him 48 hours to do the same to that toy rat!

Ratzi loves my Sketchers almost as much as I do

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Matt carved a little pumpkin & we set it out on our porch (picture to follow). We also watched the SNL Halloween DVD… very funny stuff, even if it was made before Jimmy Fallon’s Halloween Carols… guess we’ll just have to wait for volume two someday.

We handed out treats but only got 6 trick-or-treaters. I suspect the rain kept some kids away… the little boy who lives two doors down didn’t come over.

We were bums & didn’t do costumes this year, but I did wear my halloween sweatshirt that glows in the dark.

Ratzi & Linus enjoyed a little bit of the excitement, too. I left the inside door open so we could see when people came up the steps, but mostly the cats just had a great time watching the bugs flying around our light.

It was hard work & eventually they passed out together on the couch (with a little help from me, lol)

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My boys were fantastic in the car!! There was some crying on the way there, but on the way home they were perfect angels.

Ratzi is officially fat. We’ll be trying to cut back on the amt we give him, especially because I think he’s also eating some of Linus’s food. When we buy more food for him, he’ll be getting the low-calorie stuff. He was pretty scared about being away from home but was good as gold while the tech and the vet looked at him.

Linus might have FIV but we won’t know for sure ’til he’s re-tested when he’s 6 months old. Dr. B. said there’s a pretty good chance that this positive is from antibodies passed to Linus from his mom and that those can last for up to 6 months. She said usually a kitten is sick if it has FIV but Linus is pretty healthy. I’m a little worried about the idea that if he has it Ratzi could also get it but Dr. B. said that FIV is harder to transmit than feline leukemia. Linus will see Dr. B. again in a few weeks for more shots.

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