She’s arrived!

Today our family has transitioned from a family without a pet to one with one. Welcome to Lotus!

Rhea:

Today we drove to the Mittagong Golf Club and we met up with Pam Ericson, the owner of Lotus. It was a two-hour (actually 1 hour and 44 minutes) drive. Lara finished a book and then I read it, and when I finished it then every time dad had to overtake a vehicle, I got to put the indicators on.

When we arrived, we went into the golf club and there was a restaurant there, so we got lunch. I had a salad sandwich and so did Lara. Then we went outside and waited about four minutes until she arrived.

When I saw her then I thought she was the cutest kitten I had ever seen. She was tiny! Pam went into the back seat of the car where the cat was and transferred Lotus from her cage to our cage. Before she did that, she told us to come around and we got to pat her, then she put her in our carry cage and we spent about ten minutes going through all of the forms and I asked when her birthday was (the fourth of November 2019). Pam printed out a form just for us that had her mother and her father and her grandparents and her great grandparents and her great great grandparents. There was also a diary of when she had her vaccinations and when she was de-sexed and also when she needed her next vaccinations. She also had a form that dad had to fill out about where we live and where was the second most likely place that she’d be. Pam put three ping pong balls and two toys in our carry cage and she also gave us a blanket. She gave us a Christmas toy as well.

Dad carried her to the car after Pam had given us all the information about Lotus. Apparently Lotus was crying on the way to the golf club but she wasn’t on the way back.

I read all of her forms and I had just finished reading the last one when we turned on to the street near us. Dad kept on going to the shops to get litter, dinner and wet food for Lotus.

After we bought all of that, we went home and set up her litter tray. I suggested a spot and everyone agreed. After we had set up the litter tray we let Lotus out and the first thing we did was bring her to her litter box. She had a look around and then she came out and she climbed up into our cat tree. She stayed there for a while and dad had to go and pick up mum from a wedding and she stayed there until we got her out about five minutes before dad got home. Then about five minutes later we let her out and the first thing she did was go under the couch and she stayed there for about an hour. We tipped the couch over at five o’clock because she still wasn’t out from the couch.

Helen and Jack came over at six o’clock. We tidied up the house a bit before they came and when they came they brought two salads, a loaf of bread and dessert which was delicious. They stayed for almost three hours but Lotus went behind the piano for about an hour and a half and we couldn’t coax her out when finally dad was able to move the piano and I could get Lotus out. After that, dad put a blanket in Lotus’s little bed and I put about five toys in there.

Helen and Jack left before Lotus came out from under the piano and we went out for about five minutes to say goodbye to them. Their car had a tiny screen that said when the door was open and it had the picture of behind them.

We went back inside and there was a rectangle bit that went in towards the inside of the piano and then there was a wall separating several more of them and Lotus was in the first one closest to the table. She moved to the second one closest and then I managed to get her to the first and then she went back to the second and then she went back to the first and she was about to come out when dad moved the piano and I could reach her.

We put her in her bed with most of her toys and then we said goodnight to her and cuddled her for a while. Then we went to bed.