Our new kitten! So far he's turning out to be the cuddly lap kitty that I wanted, interspersed with moments of rabid attacker.

I've sort of held off on posting this because for a while there we weren't sure if we were going to be able to keep him. About a week after we brought him home, he was having very painful bowel movements; we took him to emergency the weekend that we noticed and they thought that it was most likely a congenital malformation, the only treatment for which was likely to leave him incontinent. Not a good quality for a house cat.

Well, we brought him to an internal medicine specialist that next week and after examining him, they concluded that there was no congenital constriction of the area. Yes, sigh of relief, but he was still having trouble. We had him on meds and kept increasing the dose until he was going without visibly straining. So while he's not completely normal yet, he's improving. I'm hoping that the whole thing was just a bad case of constipation which caused injury to the area and made it worse, and it'll go away with no lasting impact.

So that's the kitten's story. Now on to the pictures of cuteness!


We named him Beckett because... well, I think the resemblance speaks for itself.


(I tried to do a cool animated gif thing with those two picture, but Blogger lives in the dark ages apparently.)

He's mostly African-American, but he has weird brown marks on his face (see above) and a weird gray-white patch on his neck. We're wondering to see what he looks like when he loses his kitten fluff.


Bean has taken to him fabulously because he offers a perfect herding opportunity.

In other cat news, we bought the both of them harnesses. Only Vladimir has had the chance to try it out, as Beckett's too small yet. I think he enjoys it, but he'll only combat crawl everywhere.

And, in pursuit of ultimate catladyhood, I bought a cat tree that they both love.

As for me, I'm studying for midterms, drowning in cardiology and respiratory. End of story pretty much.