Post-Moving Day Recap
The move is almost complete! We still have some things at K's apartment, and we still have to clean K's apartment, but everything else is done. We even have all 12 pets installed fairly comfortably -- although it took 4 people, 3 cars and AAA to make it happen!
The cats were really very good with the move. Mom & Dad took all 4 of them over at once on Saturday and got them set up in the basement. Tory, K's little girl kitty, wasn't fazed in the slightest. Didn't mind the car ride, didn't mind the basement... she hopped right out and started exploring the minute she got there, and then curled up in a blanket for a nap. The others were not quite so brave, but Rumble & Tumble eventually emerged whenever Dhavid or I poked our heads down there. Mouth, though, was pretty freaked out for a few hours after we let everybody upstairs. But once everyone was gone and once we were finally able to feed them, all of a sudden he was fine. And ever since then he's been perfectly happy and lovey and purry. Cats - check.
Mertle wasn't a big fan of the car ride, and she was even less of a fan of sitting in her dry aquarium while we got everything set up. Put her in a bathtub and she's good for days... So that's where K put her until he got the tank up & running. She's been fine too, despite being exposed to our smelly sulfurous water. Mertle - check.
The bufos didn't seem to be overly affected either, but we didn't even have to take them out of their tank. As they do with so much of their lives, they pretty much just sat there throughout the experience. Bufos - check.
The firebellies, now, they had a wild ride (even if they weren't necessarily aware of it). They were by far the most delicate of the animals when it comes to the weather - they're tropical and need heat. Chicago + winter != tropical. So, we took extra care getting my car ready for them (K took the bufos and Mertle, I took the firebellies) by turning on the seat heaters and getting the car good and warm before we dashed them from the apartment outside to the car. We do in fact get them into the car just fine, into the front passenger seat, with the seat belt buckled. But then I made the fatal flaw of closing the passenger door... and locking myself out of the running car. It's hard to do that in this day and age, but still possible -- espectially when your passenger door's lock sensor is on the fritz and opening the passenger door with the engine running causes the entire car to lock down. So if you have the keys in it, and only have that door open, and hear it lock, and forget, and then close the passenger door... you're screwed. Just like I was yesterday afternoon.
What's even more tragic about it is that the spare key to my car was sitting helplessly in my trunk, where I'd almost NOT put it when I was loading up the car. If I hadn't grabbed that last container, it would've been up in K's apartment within easy reach! But no... and since it's winter, of course all of the windows were closed... Oh, and my coat -- which held my cell phone and wallet (which itself had my AAA membership card in it) -- were inside the car too. Sigh...
K saved the day by digging out his AAA card and giving me his cell phone to call them for assistance. And then we lucked out bigtime when the truck came by not 15 minutes after we called. (We got prioritized because of the running engine, and a guy just happened to be in the area right then. Thank you God...) AAA guy shows up, uses a little air cuff thingy to wedge the door open enough to stick a flexible rod down there to push a power window button, and we were back in business. And the toads were fine. :) (Firebellies - check!)
There were only a couple of casualties from the weekend - a glass candy dish of K's that I dropped in transit to my car, and .. the storm door to our house, which I pretty much ripped off the house by accident when I tried to close it. Oops.
We're fine, cats are fine, Mertle's fine, toads are fine (Buffy goes back to the vet today to get her stitches out), and now we get to tackle the unpacking. More on that as it happens!
Love,
J
The cats were really very good with the move. Mom & Dad took all 4 of them over at once on Saturday and got them set up in the basement. Tory, K's little girl kitty, wasn't fazed in the slightest. Didn't mind the car ride, didn't mind the basement... she hopped right out and started exploring the minute she got there, and then curled up in a blanket for a nap. The others were not quite so brave, but Rumble & Tumble eventually emerged whenever Dhavid or I poked our heads down there. Mouth, though, was pretty freaked out for a few hours after we let everybody upstairs. But once everyone was gone and once we were finally able to feed them, all of a sudden he was fine. And ever since then he's been perfectly happy and lovey and purry. Cats - check.
Mertle wasn't a big fan of the car ride, and she was even less of a fan of sitting in her dry aquarium while we got everything set up. Put her in a bathtub and she's good for days... So that's where K put her until he got the tank up & running. She's been fine too, despite being exposed to our smelly sulfurous water. Mertle - check.
The bufos didn't seem to be overly affected either, but we didn't even have to take them out of their tank. As they do with so much of their lives, they pretty much just sat there throughout the experience. Bufos - check.
The firebellies, now, they had a wild ride (even if they weren't necessarily aware of it). They were by far the most delicate of the animals when it comes to the weather - they're tropical and need heat. Chicago + winter != tropical. So, we took extra care getting my car ready for them (K took the bufos and Mertle, I took the firebellies) by turning on the seat heaters and getting the car good and warm before we dashed them from the apartment outside to the car. We do in fact get them into the car just fine, into the front passenger seat, with the seat belt buckled. But then I made the fatal flaw of closing the passenger door... and locking myself out of the running car. It's hard to do that in this day and age, but still possible -- espectially when your passenger door's lock sensor is on the fritz and opening the passenger door with the engine running causes the entire car to lock down. So if you have the keys in it, and only have that door open, and hear it lock, and forget, and then close the passenger door... you're screwed. Just like I was yesterday afternoon.
What's even more tragic about it is that the spare key to my car was sitting helplessly in my trunk, where I'd almost NOT put it when I was loading up the car. If I hadn't grabbed that last container, it would've been up in K's apartment within easy reach! But no... and since it's winter, of course all of the windows were closed... Oh, and my coat -- which held my cell phone and wallet (which itself had my AAA membership card in it) -- were inside the car too. Sigh...
K saved the day by digging out his AAA card and giving me his cell phone to call them for assistance. And then we lucked out bigtime when the truck came by not 15 minutes after we called. (We got prioritized because of the running engine, and a guy just happened to be in the area right then. Thank you God...) AAA guy shows up, uses a little air cuff thingy to wedge the door open enough to stick a flexible rod down there to push a power window button, and we were back in business. And the toads were fine. :) (Firebellies - check!)
There were only a couple of casualties from the weekend - a glass candy dish of K's that I dropped in transit to my car, and .. the storm door to our house, which I pretty much ripped off the house by accident when I tried to close it. Oops.
We're fine, cats are fine, Mertle's fine, toads are fine (Buffy goes back to the vet today to get her stitches out), and now we get to tackle the unpacking. More on that as it happens!
Love,
J
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