Both foster cats are gone. Skipper was adopted on Saturday and Myagi is at a new foster home as of yesterday.
After Skipper was adopted Myagi was very restless and unhappy, meowing constantly, including all night Saturday into Sunday which resulted in little sleep for us. We took him to a weekend cat show in the hopes he’d be adopted but unfortunately he wasn’t. Other cats were adopted, however, freeing up room for him to go to a new foster home that has other cats since he’s happier when he’s not alone. His new foster mommy is keeping me updated on him, including texting me photos which I appreciate. I will miss both kitties but not the mess they made, the time spent cleaning up after them and socializing them, not to mention worrying about what they might destroy.
This experience has taught me that I’m not as much of a cat person as I once thought. At least in the respect to having my own cat. I am too nervous about letting the cats have the run of the house and keeping them in the master bathroom wasn’t fair to them or to us. I had to carry them downstairs daily since I didn’t want them getting loose in the master bedroom as that is a designated cat-free zone to help keep my allergies at bay. It worked pretty well until Saturday when suddenly my eyes were super itchy, my nose was runny, and I kept sneezing. At first I thought it was a cold since I only experienced that reaction the first day we had the kitties but it promptly went away on Sunday once Myagi was gone.
Needless to say I’m a bit relieved and am feeling much better. I spent the entire morning cleaning the master bathroom, including washing the bathroom rugs, as well as shampooing the couch. You should have seen how dirty it was, not to mention how much cat hair was on it even though I vacuumed the heck out of it yesterday.
I would like to continue helping the rescue organization in other ways so I’m in the process of discussions with them as to what that might be. I may even foster again once a spare bedroom is available since it will be more room for the cats and I can just open the door and let them out when necessary which eliminates the need to move their food, water, and litter-box (another thing that had to be done with the setup we had).
Speaking of litter, that stuff gets everywhere! I was vacuuming it up daily. Also, I don’t understand how people can go a week without cleaning their cat’s litter-box. I was cleaning ours daily and probably could have done it twice a day given how many “presents” the kitties were leaving.
The timing of this change worked out well since my new hard drive was delivered today and I will no doubt be preoccupied the next few days reinstalling software and configuring everything in an attempt to get things back to normal. Plus I am studying to become A+ certified in the hopes that I will have a better chance of getting a tech support position at the library should another opening arise.