Kara & Michael’s Blog

Michael has demanded I post this picture of Inari in the blog. Picture this thing nudging you awake in the morning and try not to be a little terrified.
We’ve been getting a lot of bugs in the house lately - big old flies, little bitty wasps… Inari has been taking care of most of them. [...]

About a month after Michael and I got married, I told him I wanted to buy a cat as a wedding present for him. We went to the pound intending to get a full-grown cat but after bureaucracy bit us in the bum, we came home with a kitten.
We named her Inari. She is one [...]

The Washington Post frequently holds chats and publishes a column by veterinarian Dr. Michael Fox. He tends toward the holistic treatment of animals. If you’re like me, you just choked on your morning coffee or slim-fast. But not so quickly - his website of published musings shows how thoughtful he is. He’s a healer concerned [...]

Inari often does very irritating things because she is smart. Do not ask me how she does some of the things that she does because I do not know. But yesterday evening I came home and she had managed to get a Tupperware container of shortbread cookies open and pull out ONE cookie, only one, [...]

Michael has a philosophy on weight loss that goes like this, “Live like you are the weight you want to be, and gradually you will move towards that weight.” It makes sense, no? So yesterday, he asked if I would walk the 2.something miles (one way) to the dollar store with him. It’s an [...]

Last night, Michael made us a tasty pasta with arugula, mushrooms, spring onions, garlic, fresh oregano and crushed red pepper flakes. He sautéed all the ingredients minus the pasta with olive oil in a cast-iron pan, taking care not to sauté the arugula or oregano for too long. The arugula was only wilted, [...]

We had to rush Inari to the kitty hospital last night at 10:00pm. We had a candle burning on our dresser and she jumped up to take a look at it (we’ve had candles burning all the time, and she’d never taken an interest in one before). Before we could pull her away from it, [...]

No matter what WoDM says about our kitty, he obviously adores her. We engaged in the most honorable form of torture by dressing her up in a dollar-tree brand pet santa outfit.

No pictures of us three turned out unblurry or made me look skinny enough to send on Holiday cards, so I’m re-evaluating what [...]

Readers, I’m disappointed no one commented on the corn pwned animated gif. It still makes me laugh.
Inari was “fixed” yesterday. She has a tiny incision, she’s not licking it obsessively and she’s been both cuddly and playful today, so I think she’s returning to normal.
The proof:

Since WoDM and I had a day off [...]

My mother sent me a link to an interview with the author of a book about taking care of cats.
My thoughts on a few things she says:
1.  I don’t buy into the whole indoor/outdoor = badbadbad thing.  Inari is staying inside because we don’t have a yard for her to go into.  She’s also expressed [...]