08/30/2023 – Goodbye August

Goodbye August. We won’t miss you. You were HOT, HOT, HOT! And dry, terribly dry. We know September won’t be much better because that’s just how Septembers are anymore but really, see you later, August. Your work here is done!

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Our work is done regarding thoughts on bringing Murray into our fold; for two reasons. Last week, after Mom posted flyers around the neighborhood, we finally got a call from Murray’s pawrents. We are absolutely convinced Murray is theirs. And, as it turns out, Murray isn’t a girl, but a very, very neutered boy named . . . well, we’ll say . . . Mr. G, for privacy reasons.

Mr. G lives with two other brothers, all of whom are allowed to hang out outdoors. Only Mr. G takes it further by wandering. His brothers are homebodies. They have 24/7 access to indoors, including heated beds and unlimited food. Which might explain why Mr. G never looked thin or haggard. In fact, Mr. G is downright, dare we say . . . chunky.

While we did seriously entertain adopting him and went so far as to get him checked for a microchip (he does not have one), we are at our absolute limit for kitties here at Colehaus. Between Mr. Colehaus’ increased MS deterioration and Mom needing to work more and more hours to keep what we have, we’ve already decided the current Colehaus Cats will be the last Colehaus Cats.

It was only fair that we talked over this reasoning with Mr. G, the cat formerly known as Murray. And he had some words of his own to add; mostly insistence that we continue to visit him once or twice a day for brushies and chicken catnip treats (Note to self: set up another Amazon order for these), and that we keep calling him handsome. We both were a bit saddened and unhappy about that turn of events, but wildly happy he has a real home with a real family who loves him.

And then, Mr. G stomped right over across the yard, pounced on a bird, and killed it. C’mon, now! No! No! NO! Mr. G, we went over these rules from the start. NO BIRDS! You know better!

And because there was nothing we could do, we gave him a final NO! and returned inside without giving him a final petting *sigh*

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2022 – No post
2021 – Around Colehaus
2020 – No post
2019 – Art in August, Cat-Style
2018 – No post
2017 – Already Looking for Autumn
2016 – No post
2015 – No post
2014 – A Random August post
2013 – Still Pining
2012 – No post