okay you make a valid point what if I got a cat and let you name it and we could have frequent playdates I don't have a history with pets but at home I kept like 60 houseplants alive for years how hard can it be?
I think a cat might actually be less needy than most houseplants, so if anything you're probably over-qualified.
I think I could manage cat babysitting with pretty minimal risk. Maybe I could be like the cool cat uncle? Except instead of giving it its first beer, I'll give it its first catnip. Have a heart-to-heart about the birds and the mice.
Damn it this cat doesn't exist why am I already emotional
another valid point never get a succulent unless you have the actual sun in your house for lighting, they always say they're easy for beginners but if you don't literally parboil them they get all weird and tall and then die
oh man you'd be the best cool cat uncle I'm emotional too this has to happen now
hit me with your best cat names I'm googling shelters as we speak
Me and the sun don't exactly have a great working relationship, as you can probably tell, so I'll take your word for it.
Here we go, I claim no promise of the quality: Boots Socks Mittens (I don't know why knitted accessories came to mind first, maybe the yarn balls?) Penguin Parvo the Dog Slayer Mouse (for the irony) Queen Elizabeth aka Your Majesty aka Your Highness aka Your Grace Frankenstein Poptart Nyquil Macaroni Mochi Barbra Streisand Princess Buttercup Excalibur Yoda Shoop Ruth Bader Ginsburg O'Malley Chrysanthemum Joan (of Arc) Mewcauley Culkin Neil Catrick Harris Cleocatra Saturn Lucifer Obi Wan Morocco
Absolutley NOT Mr/Mrs. Whiskers. We have to draw the line somewhere.
I don't know whether to knit it a sweater or sprinkle it with holy water
I also don't know why I'm getting this weird feeling that that cat would be impossible to kill somehow Something about those wrinkle folds screams immortality
It's probably kind of weird that's one of the first places my mind goes, but Trust me, it's a logical starting point if you've spent any time at the gas station
I genuinely do not know. Maybe it's weirdly cute-psychic. Like it's ugly, but when you look into its eyes it somehow hypnotizes you into thinking it's cute?
I'm not necessarily saying we should go with that one, but If we did Yoda would be too obvious of a choice, so I'm ruling it out on principal.
It could be a Parvo because it kind of feels like it could look straight into a dog's soul and conquer it with eye contact without lifting it's little paw
or
Macaroni Because it kind of looks like the way macaroni sounds
It's... what's on the inside that matters? That feels like the right answer.
Well, good news, I don't think there's one hair on that cat so I guess it's disqualified
I know what you mean Like, Jerry took a bullet for me and still took longer to grow on me than that cat This was a 5 minute turn-around time
Don't get me wrong, I'm still a little horrified, but the ratio of uncomfortable to adorable has shifted dramatically very abruptly
But maybe just to be safe we should actually Meet it or something first? Is that a thing you do with cats? Is there like an overnight visit situation? Just to see if it tries to claw our faces off or siphon our soul energy in the night?
should I have said a WHISKER too morbid, did I miss the dad joke of the century there depressing
okay I'm glad to know I'm not alone
and yeah I think you can make an appointment to meet it or like foster first or something let me send the shelter an email you can blame me if it siphons our soul energy that'll all be on me
Don't worry, I probably don't have any soul energy left anyway, I'm like a dried up raisin inside. That one's a more You concern. The face clawing is probably the more Me one.
Should we I don't know Preemptively buy some supplies? Go cat supply shopping? Is that too soon? That's too soon, isn't it. This is still a completely hypothetical cat. It's more the concept of a cat than an actual cat yet. Man, I wish they had What to Expect When You're Expecting: Cat Edition or something
That might be the weirdest sounding nice thing anyone's ever said to me, thank you
I have nothing but confidence in you If it's cat-related research I'll probably spend all night on google anyway, so maybe I can feed you knowledge through cat relative osmosis If it's like actual work related research I'm useless good luck with that
oh man, I'll probably spend half the night on google too, honestly I tend not to sleep for more than a few hours at a time so I have a lot of awake breaks, as I like to call them
the research I was thinking of is work-related (I ended up splitting between research and investigations) but I can clear it pretty fast if I put my mind to it
but I still welcome your cat relative osmosis learnings
[It really hadn't been as tough as she'd expected to get the shelter to let her foster the cat for a couple days and see if she falls for him. Back home, the shelters had had such impossible asks - nuclear family, long term relationship, backyard, the whole nine yards. Things seem a lot more relaxed here, maybe because they're living in Central Horrorsville USA.
So here she is, carrying a cat in a crate who she has already mentally named Macaroni (at least for now) and is half in love with, pushing the door of her apartment closed with her foot. Putting down the crate, she crouches in front of it, eyes on the cat for a moment, voice soft as she speaks to it.]
Are you gonna claw my face off, baby?
[Whipping her phone out, she shoots a text off to Jack.]
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what if I got a cat and let you name it and we could have frequent playdates
I don't have a history with pets
but at home I kept like 60 houseplants alive for years
how hard can it be?
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I think I could manage cat babysitting with pretty minimal risk. Maybe I could be like the cool cat uncle? Except instead of giving it its first beer, I'll give it its first catnip. Have a heart-to-heart about the birds and the mice.
Damn it this cat doesn't exist why am I already emotional
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never get a succulent unless you have the actual sun in your house for lighting, they always say they're easy for beginners but if you don't literally parboil them they get all weird and tall and then die
oh man you'd be the best cool cat uncle
I'm emotional too
this has to happen now
hit me with your best cat names
I'm googling shelters as we speak
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Here we go, I claim no promise of the quality:
Boots
Socks
Mittens
(I don't know why knitted accessories came to mind first, maybe the yarn balls?)
Penguin
Parvo the Dog Slayer
Mouse (for the irony)
Queen Elizabeth aka Your Majesty aka Your Highness aka Your Grace
Frankenstein
Poptart
Nyquil
Macaroni
Mochi
Barbra Streisand
Princess Buttercup
Excalibur
Yoda
Shoop
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
O'Malley
Chrysanthemum
Joan (of Arc)
Mewcauley Culkin
Neil Catrick Harris
Cleocatra
Saturn
Lucifer
Obi Wan
Morocco
Absolutley NOT Mr/Mrs. Whiskers. We have to draw the line somewhere.
Anything standing out?
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Queen Elizabeth aka Your Majesty aka Your Highness aka Your Grace
Macaroni
Mochi
Yoda
Shoop
someone is adopting out this cat
what do you think
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It looks like an angry vagina grew legs
But also somehow
Weirdly cute
I'm uncomfortably conflicted
Look at it's little feet
I'm 99% sure that thing is a naked baby demon
It looks like my home ec teacher's neck
It has adorable little giant bat ears
I have some kind of weird cat-specific bipolar disorder from looking at this picture
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look at it!
it's wild
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I also don't know why I'm getting this weird feeling that that cat would be impossible to kill somehow
Something about those wrinkle folds screams immortality
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I did some more googling and this kind of cat needs to wear sweaters sometimes because of the whole no fur thing
gonna be honest I never really thought about how hard to kill it would be
then again I don't have your track record with pets so that's valid
I still can't decide if it's cute or hideous what the fuck
the most important question though
would you still love your cat nephew if it turned out to be a hairless wrinkle demon
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Trust me, it's a logical starting point if you've spent any time at the gas station
I genuinely do not know. Maybe it's weirdly cute-psychic. Like it's ugly, but when you look into its eyes it somehow hypnotizes you into thinking it's cute?
I'm not necessarily saying we should go with that one, but
If we did
Yoda would be too obvious of a choice, so I'm ruling it out on principal.
It could be a Parvo because it kind of feels like it could look straight into a dog's soul and conquer it with eye contact without lifting it's little paw
or
Macaroni
Because it kind of looks like the way macaroni sounds
It's... what's on the inside that matters? That feels like the right answer.
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yeah yoda seemed too obvious to me too
parvo I like though isn't that the name of an illness that actually kills dogs
macaroni is appropriate, he kinda looks like a bowl of cooked macaroni
okay be honest
do you hate him?
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I hate that I don't hate him
I feel like I should hate him
But
Look at him
He's adorable. Ugly-adorable. Ugdorable.
Do YOU hate him?
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but only one hair
I think that puts us back to macaroni
I did like queen elizabeth too even though it's a boy cat
no I kind of love him
I hated him at first but now I kind of love him
those EYES
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I know what you mean
Like, Jerry took a bullet for me and still took longer to grow on me than that cat
This was a 5 minute turn-around time
Don't get me wrong, I'm still a little horrified, but the ratio of uncomfortable to adorable has shifted dramatically very abruptly
But maybe just to be safe we should actually
Meet it or something first? Is that a thing you do with cats? Is there like an overnight visit situation? Just to see if it tries to claw our faces off or siphon our soul energy in the night?
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depressing
okay I'm glad to know I'm not alone
and yeah I think you can make an appointment to meet it or like foster first or something
let me send the shelter an email
you can blame me if it siphons our soul energy
that'll all be on me
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Don't worry, I probably don't have any soul energy left anyway, I'm like a dried up raisin inside. That one's a more You concern. The face clawing is probably the more Me one.
Should we
I don't know
Preemptively buy some supplies? Go cat supply shopping? Is that too soon? That's too soon, isn't it. This is still a completely hypothetical cat. It's more the concept of a cat than an actual cat yet.
Man, I wish they had What to Expect When You're Expecting: Cat Edition or something
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and to be fair I think a face clawing is probably a both of us concern
I would 100% buy that book if it existed
I'm so nervous excited
I mean
maybe it's too soon but even if we don't get this one we're gonna get one so maybe we could go cat supply shopping
are you free tomorrow?
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I'm free after work, if you wanna go in the afternoon?
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I should be free then
I have some research to do but I think I can get it all done in the morning if I don't sleep in until noon like usual
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I have nothing but confidence in you
If it's cat-related research I'll probably spend all night on google anyway, so maybe I can feed you knowledge through cat relative osmosis
If it's like actual work related research
I'm useless good luck with that
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oh man, I'll probably spend half the night on google too, honestly
I tend not to sleep for more than a few hours at a time so I have a lot of awake breaks, as I like to call them
the research I was thinking of is work-related (I ended up splitting between research and investigations) but I can clear it pretty fast if I put my mind to it
but I still welcome your cat relative osmosis learnings
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sleep is a pretty weird problem for me too
Okay cool, well I think it's my duty as the uncle to your cat to encourage you to make good work-related choices so
Do that, I guess, and just let me know when you're ready to go tomorrow
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thanks Jack
I should be ready around 1-ish, I'll give you a shout
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...a couple days later.
So here she is, carrying a cat in a crate who she has already mentally named Macaroni (at least for now) and is half in love with, pushing the door of her apartment closed with her foot. Putting down the crate, she crouches in front of it, eyes on the cat for a moment, voice soft as she speaks to it.]
Are you gonna claw my face off, baby?
[Whipping her phone out, she shoots a text off to Jack.]
guess what
I have a cat
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