<p>So D is in NYC until the 21st or something, she left Wednesday. I just got back to our rental early this morning; we’d had a college friend feed him for two days; anyway, I get here, and for the first couple of hours he cries and meows pitiously as he wants my daughter, not me - but I’m better than nothing, I suppose. He kept running to the door at every new noise and meowing hopefully, looking for her. </p>
<p>Finally he gives up and goes to sleep with me. Then all morning he’s been cuddling, snuggling, slobbering, burying his head under my chin, etc. I cannot get anything done as he won’t leave me alone so there is no choice but to pet him and play with him. </p>
<p>If my D were here I wouldn’t have to deal with this as he would get his human fix. But since she’s not here he’s twice as needy. Hopefully I don’t have a whole week of this, or, nothing is going to get done.</p>
<p>Right now our kitties are mad at my d for having the audacity to attend college. The chihuahua was all over ldgirl the moment she walked in the door (to the point of causing a tiny dog asthma attack), but the cats just sniffed ldgirl, flicked their tails and walked away. </p>
<p>My d said one of the big things she missed at school was hugging animals. (I hope this isn’t the start of an argument for off-campus housing next year…)</p>
<p>my Ds cat was also too proud to beg
the summer she returned home after being away, her cat spent almost the whole summer a few houses up the street on their porch.
She didn’t go up there, until D came home, so I assume it was something connected.
She did let her be brought back, but then she would go right up there again.
sad- ( she died when D was a junior)</p>
<p>One of my best friends owns her home in Arlington where she lives with her kitty, or rather, she tries to. Kitty is actually her brother’s cat - long history, there, brother was walking back to his dorm at Princeton where he was studying for his PhD. Kitty was a stray, followed him home, so, the brother kept him. But when he finished his PhD, he planned to do some research overseas where he could not take the kitty. So he gave it to his roommate, who took went on to Yale with kitty for some other post grad work. Roommate finished up at Yale, went to also go overseas, so, my best friend inherited the kitty. Brought him to her house in Arlington. But then she applied to and got accepted at Tufts for her masters, so, she rented her house, took the kitty to Tufts. That didn’t work out so well as she got a roommate and the kitty and roommate didn’t mesh. So she sent the kitty back to her brother, who is now a professor at Dartmouth. Then she finished her masters, repossessed kitty from her brother and returned to her house in Arlington. So we count the little kitty has been to four very selective schools. </p>
<p>But he hasn’t repatriated to his Arlington neighborhood very well. When my friend left for Tufts, she rented her home; the tenants have two kitties of their own. When she returned and their lease was up, her tenants decided they liked the neighborhood, and, as luck would have it, they found a nice rental home just a few houses down on the same street. So they packed up and moved down the street and my friend moved back into her house. Problem is, the two kitties who belong to the former tenants didn’t get the memo about how their address has changed. So they still think they live in my friend’s house, and so they keep going back to her house to get fed, etc., which is annoying the daylights out of my friend’s kitty. She told me it has been going on since she returned home from Tufts this past summer and the three felines are still fighting etc. because the other two didn’t get the change of address, so, it’s sort of a mess. LOL.</p>