Rachael Is Messing With My Head
March 31st, 2007 by 
Rory Harper
She wants me to adopt Little Tex, so today she took some pictures and posted them on her LJ, then called me to make me look at them. Here’s one:
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I fear that her evil plan is working.
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Posted in Daily Life, Rachael is Awesome, Rory | 
17 Comments »
March 31st, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Dammit, Rory, stop posting pictures of adorable kitties.
There are those of us with no power to resist adorable kitty action. Sheesh.
March 31st, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Kitty porn, indeed.
(I like what she’s done with her hair.)
March 31st, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Thanks! I got it streaked blue on Monday.
Also. NO ONE can resist kitties.
March 31st, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Hey, Caroline!
There are four more absolutely sweet and gorgeous little kitties in the litter. None have yet been definitely adopted.
One looks like Little Tex. The others are black calicos like their mom.
Just thought you might like to know.
March 31st, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Aw.
March 31st, 2007 at 10:12 pm
If the Borg were kittens, resistance would truly be futile.
March 31st, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Sweet nattering Jesus, Rory. There are four cats and a dog here already. So stop being a kitty tease.
March 31st, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Your kitties are lonely, Caroline. They need a new friend.
Poor kitties.
Poor lonely kitties.
Lonely, lonely kitties.
…It’s entirely possible that LDA is right, and that the Borg are already here, cleverly disguised as irresistible kitties.
At least at Caroline’s house.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:03 am
I can resist Adorable Kitties, largely because everyone in my family is fiercely allergic to Adorable Kitties (and unpleasant, unlovable kitties too, most likely, though where would you find those?). I was once given a choice by Spouse’s allergist: cat or Spouse. Cat wouldn’t go out and get sorbet, let alone a job. Spouse won.
It’s a damned cute little cat, though.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:20 am
It’s barking good we’re short on money right now. Otherwise I’d be driving down tu Austin and picking two for my planned next two, whom we’re hoping to name Siegfried and Yum!
Madeline, I was allergic to cats when I got my first one, I started reacting to them after babysitting the kids in a family that included a cat (babysitting including two weeks during the summer for a couple of years…). Once we got Ajacat, I had a month or so of hell and living on Contact plus benedryl. (I was 20-something, I wasn’t worrying about my blood pressure…). After a month I forgot to take the pills and realized I wasn’t reacting.
BUT and it’s a big BUT, my only reaction was a stuffy nose. If your family has the turn-red-and-feel-worse-and-worse reaction, that is bad.
One of the accomodations Margene took up when we became a polyfamily was shots that made her immune to cats. She had previously taken allergy shots, but the whole spectrum shots made her ill. The Just Cats and Dogs her body could accept and it worked on cats, she lives with cats now.
You’d have to be Very Dedicated to decide to have cats.
But the weirder thing we learned: Cats have the same dander protein all the way from house cats to lions, it’s the same protein. Dogs have five, and they vector in strength from dog to dog individually. And Margene never did get okay with dog allergans. And it explains why I’m not allergic to dogs with a single coat (like Great Danes, which my family had when young) but am any dog with a double coat. (think just about anything without a slick, smooth, short coat…)
April 1st, 2007 at 1:35 am
Here ya go, Mad:
The Bio-Engineered Non-Allergenic Cat
They’re only $4,000.
And there are actual scientific types who are a teensy bit sceptical:
Allerca Wiki
But, hey… nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Tragically, I haven’t heard of any hypo-allergenic dogs yet for Paula.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:48 am
Allerca’s founder has a history of scam companies and their cat is a Hoax most likely.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:18 am
Ooooh.
Secret kitties.
Y’all can send Rachael $4,000, and she will mail you a wonderful kitty in about a month. From her secret kitty factory at the Goddam Hippie Commune. As good as anything made by Allerca.
Pictures by request.
Or maybe even without request.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Aww! So cute! (AND small. When I first saw it, I thought it was a hamster).
April 1st, 2007 at 10:15 pm
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April 2nd, 2007 at 6:02 am
This kitten reminds me of my first cat, Aragorn. My sis named her kitten (from the same litter) Eowyn.
Any guesses what Dad was reading to the family?
April 7th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Don’t worry, Rory. You’ll always be the same good man to us. *shifty eyes*