Catch up #7: The arrival of Rubber and Glue

Most of you already saw this on Facebook, but just to reiterate for posterity: On November 16th, we went to the SPCA and picked out a couple adult cats to rescue and take home with us. Going to the SPCA was such a fantastic experience, not only because we felt good about rescuing the animals, but because we got to meet so many different kinds of cats, and spend time getting to know them; so we were really confident that the ones we brought home were a good fit for us.





Their SPCA names were Mr. Man and Mr. Dreamy, which didn't really work too well for us ("Which Mr. is this again?"). After a few days of debate, we settled on calling them Rubber and Glue. Rubber is the orange one, and Glue is the cream one.

Now about these names. We have this book, Corduroy's Halloween, which for a while Aria was wanting for bedtime practically every night. It's a lift-the-flap book. There's a black cat which appears under a flap on every page. I don't know how this came to be, but at some point, Aria started calling it Glue the Cat. Maybe it was because one of the flaps ripped, and someone said we needed to glue the cat? I really have no idea. But the name stuck (ha ha). And so then it was natural that Aria wanted to name a real cat Glue, and so then Rubber was a no-brainer after that, because of "I am rubber, you are glue..."

For the most part, the cats are pretty happy here. Except of course for scenes like this, which happen pretty frequently:



But then, to make up for it, they get this:



The only down side of these guys is that they have quite a taste for human food. The SPCA people didn't mention that, but then again, they probably had no idea, since the cats aren't around human food at all there. It's a bit of an annoyance having to shoo them off of the counters all the time.