Neville Update

I cleaned out his condo last night, gave him a half bath, and straight up glued the litter boxes to the floor. It's hot glue. so I can get it out with effort if I need to, but he can't, right? WRONG! The little brat had loosened one of them and had it in the middle of his house. Oh well, at least he hadn't flipped it yet. I re-glued it this morning, tidied up, and went on my merry way. I really hope this litter-training works. I want to be able to let him out for longer periods of time without him peeing or pooping all over the place. We'll see what happens!

Also: LOOK AT THE CUTENESS!

OMGWHATDOIDO????

Ok, so I finally got the stuff to make Neville his own little condo Saturday. It's so big, we had to clear out or biggest closet, take down the doors, and put it in the office. It's got a coroplast floor and a nifty little litter box with a plastic screen (which I SLAVED over) lifted about 3/4 and inch off the bottom of the box. There's a ledge and plenty of room for him to hop around and have fun. Well. It has been anything but amusing this past week. He sprayed the entire place with poop as soon as I put him in. NBD. He's probably just marking it as his own. EVERY DAY SINCE THEN it's been a disastrous, stinky mess. I had to break down and give him a bath yesterday. Today? He's got little stains on his cheeks from DRINKING HIS OWN PEE, and he actually flipped his litter box over, so there are shreds of wet paper and poop everywhere. I discovered this at lunch today. I have no idea what to do when I get home. His lovely baby coat is going to shreds, and I just want to cry.

Honestly, in a perfect world where I have lots of money and can control the climate, I'd rather have him outside in a big, spacious hutch, but it's too darn hot in Arkansas. I could put him back in his old house (spacious, wire-bottom cage) but the hubs doesn't want him back where he was in that house, which is the dining room, and I'd kind of like my closet back. I just needed to type it all out and figure out what the heck to do. I could:

1) Keep going with this condo/house-training thing, call his baby fur a loss (;_;), and hope that he "gets" it after a while. It hasn't even been a week yet...he might get it eventually.

2) Put his old house in one side of the closet, get half of my closet back, and screw the house-training. (On second thought, this probably wouldn't work because it would be mega hard to dump the trays every day and he would probably stain the carpet with the pee that slips through the space between cage bottom and tray top. No thanks.)

3) Insulate the shed and put in an small window unit AC. ($$$)

4) This was going to be the "sell him" option, but I just can't!!! That is my dead-end, he's-peeing-and-pooping-on-every-inch-of-the-house-with-magical-mega-pooping-powers-and-stealing-candy-from-babies option.

From the options listed...*sigh* I think I'm going to go with #1. God, help me.

Books! Books! Books!

The bathrooms in our new building are icky, so I walked over to the library to use the restroom and pick up my ILL. It's a book called Classified as Murder and it's about a small-town librarian and his Maine Coon cat. You guessed it. They solve MURDERS! Apparently, this is the second book in the series. I'm troubled by this...but I don't think I'll be able to find the first one, read it, and read this one before it's due back :( I guess I'll just have to read them out of order! Back to the library: Something went wrong while I was checking the book out, so while Ms. Eichman was checking for a solution, I had time to browse the discarded books they have for sale. They're usually uninteresting books about Southern CoC history or out-dated medical dictionaries, but I found a little gem of a novel called Mandarin. No, it's not about tiny oranges (though that's what I thought at first, too). It's a romance about 19th century China. Should be interesting. The one next to it looked dumb, but after I read the first sentence fragment on the back cover, I HAD to get it! "A family held together by tradition -- and torn apart by love!" Sounds like a winner ;D

I got my Browncoats shirt today!! Sigh...how I wish this show were still running.

Neville and His Herbs

Neville was hopping around the house and came out onto the back porch. He found the pots I grow his herbs in :) I think he's in love...

SWAP!!!!

ZOMG I GOT THE BEST SWAP PACKAGE TODAY!!!! :D I'm in a group on Ravelry called Geek Swap and our last swap was a Star Trek swap. I just got it today in the mail!!! Check it outz!