further distraction from my writing...

[rivendellrose]

More re: the announcement about Del Toro stepping away from 'The Hobbit' If necessary, PJ says he will step in as director if that's what it takes to ensure the film happens.

Assuming, that is, that the studio greenlights the project.

Full article is here.

Kitten is lounging on the couch with Theoden, on whom she appears to have a little bit of a crush. He's ignoring her. This seems to be suitable progress.

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[websandwhiskers.livejournal.com]

There are few things more adorable than affectionate baby animals crushing on clearly disinterested and mildly disgusted older animals.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Totally agreed. And she looks so tiny next to Theo and his absurd hugeness. ♥

[websandwhiskers.livejournal.com]

I used to have pet rats, and one time I adopted a tinytinyTINY baby from the SPCA whose whole family had been abandoned in a locked cage in the woods (people suck), and I got her at three weeks old because her mom's milk had dried up anyway. She was a little albino, and her mom was the same.

I put her in with my bigger rats.

Abby, who was a hairless and very elderly, decided immediately that this was HER BABY, OMG, and followed her around grooming her and carrying her back to the nest and making sure she ate and grooming her more and generally fretting.

The baby, however, saw Kia - who was a huge, chubby, fuzzy creature with himalayan coloring, or in other words, nearly albino but with a dark nose and paws. And the baby's reaction was all OMG MOM!

. . and Kia did. not. like. babies. There were already a set of "twins" younger than her whose babyhood she had been forced to endure, and she hadn't enjoyed them, either. And this new baby - Emma - would just follow her everywhere (with Abby following her in turn), and try to cuddle, and Kia would be just spectacularly disinterested. At one point, Kia ended up with the baby curled up asleep literally on her head, with Abby curled up next to her trying to sit on top of the baby and be a good mummy, and Kia was just laying there wide awake with this expression of absolute and utter disgust - like, "Seriously, WHY did we need one of these?"

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. That sounds so unbelievably cute!

Did Kia eventually get over it, or did she just endure until baby grew out of her little crush?

[websandwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Kia endured. Emma started being far more fascinated with Fern and Ivy, the "twins", who were at that point about 5 months old - fully grown, but still playful, and jealous as all hell of her and very much a pair. They sometimes picked on her a little, but she was an undauntable little thing.

I miss those guys, I really do, but I think I can't have rats with the cat. He'd eat them.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

They all sound wonderful.

And yeah, rodents and cats, not a great combination. I've heard stories of people making it work, but I think it's highly dependent on the cat's personality and general traits (one cat I know is terrified of his owner's rat, because once while cleaning the cage the person accidentally dropped the rat on top of him... but that kitty is a notorious wimp, too!), and requires constant vigilance from the person to prevent the rats ever 'pinging' that predator sense. Personally, as much as I like rats, I've never felt it could work. Just not worth risking the potential disaster.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Fry: "Is that a Hobbit?"

Bender: "No, that's a hobo and a rabbit. But they're making a Hobbit."

(from Futurama - "Bender's Game."