After a couple of weeks of complete animal overload at his parents and brothers house Steve returned from his last trip to South Africa absolutely determined that we were getting a pet!!!
It's been 3 years since our beloved boy-dog Spanner passed away and nearly 3 since we had to leave our beautiful baby girl Alaska behind in SA, and to be honest the sadness we felt was overwhelming and we vowed we would never have another pet. But time heals, as they say, and we don't want Austin or Lily to grow up without animals around them, so although we dont really have the perfect house for an animal at the moment, well not a dog anyway, we decided to just go for it and deal with the consequences...
Originally Steve was determined to have a marine fish tank, not the easiest thing to keep, or the cheapest as we discovered after looking around... After realising we'd have to take out a 2nd mortgage to buy anything half decent we laughed it off and decided that if it couldn't be a dog, then it would have to be a cat.
So we settled on the breed and colour we wanted, googled breeders in Sydney...then a few weeks later drove halfway through Sydney to pick up our gorgeous 2 month old Burmese kitten...who 3 weeks later we still don't have a name for...
The suspense is killing me...I'd hoped that at the end of the post, all would be revealed. What names have the kids come up with???
ReplyDeleteoh, she's lovely! I've been awaiting this post and now it seems I'm still awaiting her name! Come on...make a decision!
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry guys, she still doesn't officially have a name!!! It's like when you have a baby and cant decide on a name (you'd know all about that Lou) and you only have a month to register it. Well we have to register her name with the Vet when we take her for her shots next week.
ReplyDeleteThe contenders are:
*Socket - in memory of Spanner - the greatest dog that ever lived!!!
*Ingwe - (pronounced ING-GWEE) -Zulu for leopard
*Piccolo - because she is small and coffee coloured
The kids haven't come up with much, besides the usual Kat, Kitty-Cat and Tiger.
Watch this space...
now i know why you find out the sex of your kids pre birth - 5 months to think about it ! piccolo is also a half sized flute ! What about Bolt ( the spanner connection) - since thats what it did for the first two weeks !
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