Moira and Will (and Beth)

Moira the black cat, investigating the Chromebook I set up with a livestream video of birds, squirrels, and other wildlife. She's standing on the keyboard of the laptop, trying to get to the birds.

Moira the black cat and the Chromebook again, still streaming a wildlife video. This time, she's looking behind it to see if she can get to the birds she sees in the video.

Moira the black cat, curled up contently on her cardboard scratcher, watching wildlife videos on a Chromebook.

*sigh*

Someone still has giardia.

Really hoping the meds kick it this time.

In the meantime, at least she's enjoying Cat TV.

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Moira the black cat (foreground) and Will the brown tabby cat (background), lounging on the floor together, surrounded by cat toys.

After a day or so of scuffles, zoomies, and spirited dominance grooming after being reunited, these two have (thankfully!) calmed back down. (For the most part.)

I love these two so dang much. They're such good kitties.

Moira the black cat and Will the brown tabby cat, looking out the sliding glass door in the TV room at the backyard together after being separated for a week.

Moira's giardia symptoms are gone and she finished her meds on Tuesday, so last night she was liberated from the TV room and was reunited with her buddy Will. They were inseparable for most of yesterday evening. 😻 (I am so glad to be done with sanitizing the TV room nightly... 😅)

Green eyed Callie is an LC3 sweetheart who became Missy's sister.

If you'd like to honor Missy in a small way please donate to your favorite animal rescue. Missy's momma works with Loudoun Community Cat Coalition and 4 of her siblings came from them. I'm sure they'd be grateful for any donations. www.loudouncommunitycats.org/donate

Hoping everything works out for both babies!

Will the brown tabby cat, laying on the floor of my office, a few feet away from the door to the back patio, which is open.

Will's enjoying the outdoors from a safe distance, silly guy. (He loves to hang out in my office when the back door is open - and no worries about him escaping, there's a screen door and it's latched shut so he's not going anywhere!)

I swear, it's like the cat distribution system said "hey, you've had a couple of difficult kitties, let's give you an easy one". I was ready for squirming and thrashing (I have a scar from Hannah flailing around when trying to medicate her), but nope - Moira didn't even hide afterwards. ❤️

Moira the black cat, rolling around on her motorized teaser toy and making biscuits in the air.

Moira just had her first dose of meds for giardia - and she was SO GOOD about it! She tolerated being scruffed, took all her meds without fighting or biting me, and got both a Churu and Greenies because she was such a good girl.

(If only it were this easy to medicate Will! 😅)

Sass is always a good sign.❤️

Will the brown tabby cat, sitting in front of a closed door with a sign on it that normally says "please do not let the cats out", with pixel art of two cats that represent Moira and Will. The s in "cats" is crossed out, and between the artwork of the two cats, "Moira is in quarantine" is written in dry-erase marker. Will looks very sad and very much wants to be on the other side of that door with Moira.

*sighs*

Welp, Moira has giardia - and as a result, she and Will have to be separated so he doesn't catch it too. (Between this and Will's tapeworm from a few weeks ago, I've deep cleaned the litter boxes SO many times...)

Neither of them are fond of this development.

Moira the black cat, sitting in an orange and black cardboard house with Halloween themed decor printed on it. There's a ghost kitty, a spider web, and a bat visible on the front of the house, and a spider cat toy dangling from the top of the doorway.

Will the brown tabby cat, laying in an orange and black cardboard house with Halloween themed decor printed on it. There's a ghost kitty, a spider web, and a bat visible on the front of the house, and a spider cat toy dangling from the top of the doorway. The side of the house is more visible in this picture, and has another spider web and two tombstones.

cat dad bought us a halloween house.

does he not know it's still september?!

oh well. we'll hang out in it anyway.

Will and his human (me), laying on the floor. Will's laying with his butt towards the camera, while I'm flopped on my side with my back to Will.

srsly, mama. I got your back. literally.

(also pls ignore the pile of boxes, mama uses those to keep me from jumping on the stove that we don't use in the second kitchen)

A close up picture of Will, a brown tabby cat, laying on the floor. His eyes are closed, in the middle of a slow blink.

okay so maybe mama is still feeling burnt out. it's nothing a few slow blinks won't fix, right?

we think that's the goodest plan.

Moira the black cat and Will the brown tabby cat, lounging in a cat tree in front of a big window.

Will the brown tabby cat and Moira the black cat, looking out the window into the yard.

Will the brown tabby cat, sprawled out in bed and looking up at the camera.

Moira the black cat, laying in bed and looking upwards with a vaguely worried look on her face.

mama's been dealing with some burnout lately, so she hasn't been able to help us post many pictures - but she says she's doing better now, so yaaaaaaay

have some pictures of us awesome cats

I’ve said this before and I’ll probably say it again, but every hardcore IRL activist I know makes a very deliberate effort to interject joy into their lives and appreciate little things. I’ve only ever seen this dedication to misery in extremely online meme “activists”.

Moira the black cat, laying on the arm of the couch, staring intently at the TV while an episode of Daredevil: Born Again plays.

Moira: "okay this matt murdock guy is pretty cool too"

🐈‍⬛🤍

Moira the black cat, curled up on the couch with me, her human. She's leaning up against my stomach and thighs, curled up in what might be referred to as the "baby spoon" position.

Moira the black cat, curled up on my blanket-covered legs as I'm stretched out on the couch. She's very sleepy and has one eye partially open.

Moira's been getting more and more snuggly as time goes on. ❤️ I'm happy she feels so comfortable with me.

Moira the small black cat, lounging on her cat tree.

Well, it took her a few days, but Moira finally explored the cat tree! (It's a good spot for TV watching, clearly.)

A very silly close-up picture of Moira the black cat and Will the tabby cat. Moira is so close you can only see one of her eyes, part of her nose, and part of an ear. Will is behind her, but more of him is visible.

Moira and Will: "HI INTERNET FRIENDS"

They are! They're so sweet to each other.

Moira the black cat and Will the tabby cat, both sprawled out on the floor and playing with opposite ends of a long, rainbow-colored, fuzzy teaser toy with feathers on one end.

I love playing with these goobers. 😻

Moira the black cat, laying in the doorway of a box-turned-cat house. The box is for a cat tree I bought for her and Will. She's played with the box more than the cat tree at this point.

Moira: "yeah, i know you bought me a fancy cat tree, but the box it came in is loads more fun"

(The box came with basic instructions for turning it into a little house, so I figured, why the heck not? I didn't realize she'd like it more than the cat tree 😂)

Will, a gray tabby cat with green eyes, looking directly at the camera - he almost looks like he's smiling. He's laying on the table behind my couch - a good perch for watching TV, heheh.

Moira, a small black cat, curled up and sleeping next to me on the couch.

Watching Star Trek right now, with Will right behind me and Moira on the couch next to me.

I've only had them for four days, and they've relaxed so much in that time. I love these babies so dang much. ❤️

On the left we have Moira, a small black cat, laying on the floor under a chair with some cat toys nearby. On the right we have Will, laying on the floor near a cardboard cat scratcher. Both cats are looking at the camera with serious looks on their faces.

These two look like they're about to drop a hot new album.

(Or angrily demand more catnip. 😂)

I'm so sorry for your loss. Even when they're only with you for a short time, it's still so hard to say goodbye. 🫂

Moira (small black cat) and Will (tabby cat) playing with a teaser toy. Moira has just pounced on the feather, then got distracted by Will as he started chewing on the wand.

Moira loves the feather part of the teaser toy. Will? He's more excited about the wand. 😂

Will, a gray tabby cat, sitting in the doorway of my bedroom and looking nervously to the side as people make noise upstairs.

Will: "cat dad has a loooot of people over upstairs right now... not sure how I feel bout that"

(Little guy is handling having people over better than I thought he would, especially since he's only been here two days so far!)