Ellipsis
Retired visionary
I have two cats, two dogs.
I have a tuxedo cat who's about a year old. We originally almost called him Luxe, because he looked like a penguin and...eh...Linux. But it didn't fit. One day, I was curled up alone with him, and it hit me hard: CATSBY. ...so now we have a cat named Catsby. We also call him 'Dick-dick,' because...sometimes he does unpleasant things, and there's a creature called a dik-dik, that when I saw it and heard the name, it made me laugh.
The other kitten is jet black, and is most easily described as a shadow on water. She moves with a silent and swift grace that can only be attributed to the ethereal. Her eyes are a mysteriously deep yellow--almost orange. She makes herself scarce most of the time. We call her 'Trin, which is short for Katrin. (...we didn't want to just say 'Cat' all the time, confusing the both of them.) Having her is more like having a very small, strange roommate that sometimes invades your bed to shove her tiny head under your palm for pets--like a strange succubus... She only wants love when you sleep.
Then there are the pups... My little monsters. They're eleven months old. They're Siberian huskies. They are out of their minds. They have no manners, no sense of decency, no self-restraint... But they're gorgeous and adorable. Shepherd has piercing blue eyes and a psychotic look on his face most of the time. Ranger has one blue eye and one brown eye, and he kind of has a teddy-bear face. At any given time, one is smarter than the other. If they were mashed together, they'd be one well-behaved dog.
I have a tuxedo cat who's about a year old. We originally almost called him Luxe, because he looked like a penguin and...eh...Linux. But it didn't fit. One day, I was curled up alone with him, and it hit me hard: CATSBY. ...so now we have a cat named Catsby. We also call him 'Dick-dick,' because...sometimes he does unpleasant things, and there's a creature called a dik-dik, that when I saw it and heard the name, it made me laugh.
The other kitten is jet black, and is most easily described as a shadow on water. She moves with a silent and swift grace that can only be attributed to the ethereal. Her eyes are a mysteriously deep yellow--almost orange. She makes herself scarce most of the time. We call her 'Trin, which is short for Katrin. (...we didn't want to just say 'Cat' all the time, confusing the both of them.) Having her is more like having a very small, strange roommate that sometimes invades your bed to shove her tiny head under your palm for pets--like a strange succubus... She only wants love when you sleep.
Then there are the pups... My little monsters. They're eleven months old. They're Siberian huskies. They are out of their minds. They have no manners, no sense of decency, no self-restraint... But they're gorgeous and adorable. Shepherd has piercing blue eyes and a psychotic look on his face most of the time. Ranger has one blue eye and one brown eye, and he kind of has a teddy-bear face. At any given time, one is smarter than the other. If they were mashed together, they'd be one well-behaved dog.