Contests and kittens, oh my!

Writing news
Next week, LT3 is releasing a short story, Forest of Fenris by T.T. Kove. It's an awesome sweet, romantic fantasy story, and I completely recommend that you check it out. If you're interested in winning a free copy, check out the blog It's Raining Men for a giveaway contest. You can also check out the LT3 Goodreads group for another chance at a free copy. ^__^

Okay, I think that's enough links for now. ^__~

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Kitty news
Two weeks back, roommate Megan texted me asking "hypothetically... if we could get a kitten, what would you say?" There was a small litter of fluffy 4-5 week old kittens living in a storm drain outside her boss's mother's apartment complex. They'd been trying to catch them, since living in a storm drain does no one good, but were so far unsuccessful. About a week ago, mommy cat and the rest of the kittens disappeared (possibly, hopefully caught by other peeps trying for rescue), leaving one tiny gray fluffball that we picked up last Friday night.

We named him Bird and have gone about getting him fixed up with kitten foods and vet visits and antibiotics (OMG he hates so much) for his respiratory infection and resigned ourselves to a 5 cat household.

So tonight, I'm working my usual 10 hour day this week (ugh, conference, ugh) and then I hear Megan yelling my name.



I rush downstairs to investigate... and there's a stray cat, curled up on our porch. He's small and gray and skinny as anything, but so friendly. Because we're suckers, we gave him a plate of wet food and some dry food and water and he went to town. He then demanded pettings. We left him on the porch when we went to the store, but he was still there when we came back. ^__^;;

Then we opened the back door... and in he sauntered.

Have I mentioned the part where we're suckers?

He vehemently DOES NOT LIKE the other cats. There was a lot of hissing and a lot of growling and we've got him shut up in the upstairs bathroom with more food and water. If he settles and the other cats settle, we'll probably continue to be suckers. Thankfully, Cincinnati has no-kill shelters, too, and that's a possibility. Tomorrow we will call the vet for another dose of flea treatment (Bird brought free fleas with him!), and then go from there.

(Suuuuckers.)