Introducing… Rose and Clara

This post is two weeks late, but today was the first time I had time to sit down and get it written out.

Summer 2016 has been tough. I’ve written and talked about it many times here, on social media, and real life, but the night Ollie died our lives crashed. That little kitty was my side kick, my best friend, and losing her so suddenly broke me in a way I never knew losing an animal could. Everyone was devastated, Pekoe included. He moved next door to my parent’s house for a few weeks because he was so stressed being here without her, and while he eventually came back home, my parent’s house remained his security blanket so we let him go stay there anytime he wanted. And then four weeks ago yesterday, we had to say goodbye to him as well. 

For the first time in 30 years, I didn’t have a pet. I didn’t have a furry friend and our house seemed so empty. I spent as much time as I could away form home doing things to keep my mind off how sad I was, but since the day Ollie died I had cried at least once every day.

We discussed it, and though we were both still very upset about losing our kitties, we knew we needed to get new ones. The empty house, the sadness, it was all too much. No kitty will ever replace Pekoe or Ollie, but we knew there were lots of kitties out there who needed a loving home, and we could give them that. So we started looking. And basically I became obsessed with finding the right kittens.

Then out of the blue two weeks ago yesterday the perfect pair showed up on our local SPCA site.

I’ll spare you the drama of how worried I was that someone would get them before we could go lay claim, how my husband had to go fill out an application on his way to work to put them on “hold” without even having had the chance to meet them, and how I cried about 8 times in the span of 20 minutes when I went down and met them.

You may have seen their photos in my post from earlier this week (or if you follow me on the socials, you have certainly seen them), but if you haven’t let me present to you Rose and Clara

Rose is the grey and white kitty, and Clara is the blank and white kitty.

They are sisters and were 4 months old when we got them. Both have double paws. One of their parents must have been a Russian Blue and the other a black and white tuxedo kitty as all of the kittens in the litter were either grey/grey & white/ black & white. Of course after Ollie I really wanted another Russian Blue as they are so lovey and I’m so happy we were able to get a pair of sisters with Russian Blue blood. 🙂

Rose is definitely the love bug of the two. She has no concept of personal space and likes to sleep right up in your face, which is adorable and lovely – until she give you a love bite on the chin or nose.

Clara is quite a bit smaller, and is our adventurer. She doesn’t like closed doors and has to inspect every nook she can find. Clara also is like Pekoe in that when you scold her for doing something bad she gets upset and goes and hides (so then you have to find her and tell her it’s ok), whereas Rose is not bothered in the least at being told to stop doing something.

There are so many echoes of Pekoe and Ollie in these two it makes me feel like they talked to the girls or have a little of the spirit of both kitties in them.

At first I had a really hard time, I was happy to have them but was worried that Pekoe and Ollie would think we were replacing them and forgetting about them, but I know in my heart they would be happy that we have two new kitties to love us, and for us to love.

Many of you either already know, or may have guessed that the names Rose and Clara weren’t chosen out of thin air. It’s well enough known that we are a bit on the nerdy side 😉 that we wouldn’t choose such normal names without there being something behind it. I had come up with the names Luna and Lily (Luna Lovegood and Lily Potter) but when we discussed it via text and J said he had thought of the names Rose and Clara I thought they were perfect.

Their full names are Rose Taylor and Clara Oswald, and of course Doctor Who fans have already figured this out. When Doctor Who rebooted, Rose was his first companion, and Clara has been his companion for the last number of years leaving last season.

Rose has always been my favourite of his companions, likely because I liked Billie Piper back when she was a British popstar. 😉 Anyway, Rose is a bit goofy, caring, and extremely loyal which seems fitting of the silly kitten we named after her who has all those same attributes.

Clara on the other hand, is much more posh and put together, she’s smart, quick and adventurous – much like our formally dressed little kitten Clara.

SO you’ll have to excuse me if I post more kitty pictures than usual on Instagram/Facebook for a while, but when you have two little furry kitties as cute as this, it’s hard to resist the temptation!

TGIF friends, I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!! <3