ATTENTION ALL: I know it has been forever since I blogged, and I am deeply ashamed. Life gets in the way, you know? Don't worry, I am well on my way to finishing my AS degree and becoming a professional blogger. So, you know, donations are accepted. Now on to the good stuff.
Keiko...
Oh Keiko.
There are a lot of things I could write about Keiko, but I think I shall stick to the basics. We got Keiko shortly after our other cat died. We picked her up at the pound, and for some reason my father was determined to get a Siamese. And for some reason, everyone thought it was adorable that when he tried to put her back in her cage, she held on to his arm with every pointy bit she possessed. Now, don't get me wrong, I think she is as adorable as the next kitty, she is just a little... different. It's like her brain-- or lack thereof-- is being constantly flooded with catnip. She rarely walks in a straight line, and she looks like a marionette when she runs.
Just the other day, she was prancing about upstairs demanding my sister's attention, when all of a sudden The Voices or something told her she needed to turn around and run the opposite direction. Her path looked something like this:
Perhaps the most amusing and characteristically Keiko maneuver in this example was her navigation down the stairs, during which she really only hit one stair and then the door at the bottom. Of course, being Keiko, she didn't even seem to notice and went along her merry way.
Keiko, like most cats, exhibits a peculiar phenomenon in which, while she is sleeping, she somehow weighs several tons. This basically means if you want to let her sleep on you, you had better be willing to commit.
She has a particularly surprising relationship with the hamsters. Well, her relationship with Walter is as to be expected. That is to say, she views him as the most entertaining mean known to felinity. She spends every available moment trying to steal him from his cage and devour him.
She and Nigel, however, get along just fine. She will let him sit on her, and he is even alright with her licking him. It's a weird relationship for a feline and a rodent, but that is just the way things go around here.
