Pets

tatum is the queen of the house. she is mostly white, with a few brown and black spots, and a brown and black stripped tail. when we got her she was very skittish and only observered us from across the room, but she's warmed up a lot! she loves to flop on the ground while we sit at the dinner table and roll around making air biscuits (or swimming as we refer to it). one of her flaws is that she hates being brushed so we have to bribe her with treats to placate her. her favorite treats are tubes of mousse; she turns her nose up at any hard treats. only goo for miss tatum. she sometimes lies down and looks like roadkill and it sends me every time

Tatum Quick Facts

dewey is the more laid back of the siblings. when we first adopted the pair, he seemed to purely be a grumpy old man, not wanting to be touched or interacted with. since then, he has come out of his shell a lot, and now comes up to us when we are sitting somewhere in the house to ask for pets. his right eye looks a bit wonky in pictures, because he has a defect where his lower eyelid turns in. thankfuly it doesn't seem to bug him and we manage it with eyedrops. lately he's been taking to sleeping on my sister's bed while she's away. I suspect he likes her more than me because she's been in charge of giving him eyedrops and eardrops for a previous persistent ear infection.

Dewey Quick Facts

miss harleen frances quinzel PhD is my mom's cat, although up until october 2022 she was living in the same house as me so I consider her an honorary pet, even if now my relationship is 95% parasocial. she was born in 2017 to a feral cat that one of my mom's friends had taken in. we adopted harley a few weeks after that.

miss harley kind of has a rotten personality LOL. she only barely tolerates people petting her, and will whine if you try to pick her up or kiss her on the head. she is also very spoiled and has fancy litter and gets a scoop of wet food every day. she gets away with being a brat only because shes so cute. when she gets stressed out she hides underneath the quilts on the bed and all you can see is a harley shaped lump

Harley Quick Facts

jäger and saint are my dad's two cats. my dad fostered cats in the beginning of 2020, and one of the fosters he had was a mother cat with her litter of kittens. the mother was named schnapps, and as I was working at the liquor store at the time I took it upon myself to name all of the kittens after various brands of cordials. iirc, the other kittens I named bailey, golds, and rumps (bailey's irish cream, goldschlager, and rumpleminze respectively). my dad ended up keeping two of the kittens, whom I had named after jägermeister and saint germain.

between the two, jäger (the brown tabby) is the more cuddly one. he is very tolerant of being picked up and held like a baby and petted. he is also not allowed to have free range to food because he will eat until he makes himself sick :(. saint, the orange cat, is the exact opposite. he's scrawny, and does not liked to be petted. his favorite pastime is staring at people across the room like he's a toddler seeing humans outside of their parents for the first time, and they have chosen that day to make a bold new wardrobe choice.

sewer cat is a cat who lives behind my house in the sewer. when I go out for my daily walks I bring them treats! I've been slowly befriending them over the course of several months... the end goal is to capture them to get them neutered, since their lack of clipped ear makes me think they haven't been taken in yet

my neighbor spoils sewer cat a lot more than I do. she buys food (canned and dry), as well as has set up a little house for him by her garage that he can hide in when it rains. she's gotten comfortable enough with the cat that they've sniffed her finger! sometimes they follow her into her garage as well. I'm not quite that close, the best I've gotten so far is being able to sit within a few feet of them without them retreating into the sewer

my sister calls them krobus after the character in stardew valley that lives in the town's sewer. my neighbor named them after a street near our house. I tend to just call them sewer cat.