she's two months old, a siamese. osobear came to our house carrying her in a cage. the first thing that struck me when i saw her was her sky blue eyes. they were so strikingly blue that they drowned out everything about her. on the whole, not stunningly cute at first sight (her fur is short and a bit coarse and she's too skinny) but i'm realizing now that she's the type whose cuteness grows on you. that face is a perfect fat heart. she'll grow up to be a beautiful cat someday.
we named her keanna. for what reason, nothing really consciously apparent. haha. unless you count the fact that i used to be a major Keanu Reeves fan (and we'd just seen his latest movie), and that Keanna Reeves was a housemate in the pee-bee-bee season that we were both in. parang walang relevance masyado ano. hehe.
nonetheless, it's the best birthday gift i've gotten in ages. even beats the three dozen hankies that osobear got me last year. :-)
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keanna had been with osobear for three days before he gave her to me. which was enough time for the dude to be endeared to the kitty. such an animal lover, my osobear. something that i didn't really know until keanna came.
aside from the cage, keanna had been given her own things--food dish, milk dish, ragbed, two toy balls. he even took her to the vet for checkups and deworming. and as he was turning over the kitten to me he was giving me guidelines on catcare (with a pamphlet, to boot!). i admit, i'm a great feline fan but i've never really taken a lot of effort into caring for my pet cats--they just came and went and ate and i coddled and cuddled them when they're there. no vets, no nothing. one factor is that i have work and i'm almost always out of the house. the only cat i'd come close to making "efforts" on was monique (gave her a ribbon collar with a bell, bought her a litterbox). but before and after monique, i've always been a passive cat owner.
syempre, parang mahihiya naman akong "pabayaan" si keanna. apart from the fact that she's such a "premium" cat (first time kong magkapusa ng may "breeding"! hehe), she's a gift from osobear. and for that, she deserves all the caring and love in the world. she's been mine for two days now and i'm getting to know her day by day. osobear says she's more playful than sweet, but she's starting to show both qualities to me. i've had cats who are aloof, i've had cats who are annoyingly clingy, but keanna has the makings of a cat who's got just the right temperament.
it's a joy looking at her. pag nami-miss ko si osobear, makipaglaro lang ako kay keanna, semi-solved na ko. :-)
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