INTERESTING TIMES

In other news, I have put in an application to the Cinnamon Trust for a cat. I don’t imagine they’ll find one who will fit our family situation so it kind of suits me well - I’m dithering about whether I’m really looking or not, and I’m anxious about costs; and the Cinnamon Trust will only contact me if they find a cat which they think suits my situation (which I tried to describe in depth in various bits of the form, though whether the correct bits I don’t know), which is unlikely, plus they pay all vet bills, which is a *big* bonus.

Given the latter, I said we’d consider one with a minor health condition, especially since we got Honey when she was suffering from a skin condition which she had on and off for several years (before we discovered it was a grass allergy and stopped her going outside…actually, thinking back, it might not have been grass, but it was definitely the outside world because she was fine once we kept her in). But not one with a behavioural issue because we don’t have the spoons.

Trying to explain that while I was going to be in the house all the time, I wasn’t necessarily going to be available for the cat 24/7 was complicated, too. Like, yes I’m here, but I’m not actually *with* the cat because I can’t sleep with a cat thanks to needing to sleep in particular ways, sleeping very badly anyway and needing not to be woken more than I manage by myself etc…and when you spend 12+ hours asleep, that’s half the time you’re not with the cat. Granted some of that time, Jay is around the cat, but he doesn’t like to sleep with the cats either, so at night-night, neither of us would be around, nor would we sometimes in the day when he goes out when I’m asleep.

Like I said, I’m not sure how much of a good thing we look, especially as I’m only looking for a young or juvenile cat (though I think a lot of elderly people get their cats from the cinnamon trust so they may want older cats; other places have an faq about age limits and it’s about “no one under 21” and this one has one reassuring that there’s no upper age limit!) and I don’t know how many animals they get through down here (I know there’s a branch in Hayle). So I think it’s unlikely to come to anything. And I’m okay with that. Ares is still a bit restless and would like Zula back please. But he’s so much better now the boys have magically reappeared. It must be such a relief.