The Victoria SPCA is very well-run and clean.  They do a GREAT job of maintaining a healthy environment.  Highly recommended!  They didn't have her in a cage because all cats were or because she was sick... it was because she doesn't like other cats and couldn't relax around them.  Cats that can are free to wander around their indoor/outdoor area.
	Tashi's first night at home... starting to relax a little.  If you put her little hand towel down, she's pretty good about getting on it and confining her kneeding to it instead of the bedding.  She's made a couple very tentative little squeaky meows so far and a very quiet little purr was heard in the night. Tashi's left eye is green and her right eye is yellow.  You can just barely make it out in these pictures hopefully.  Otherwise she's pure white everywhere that she isn't pink!
	Under the blankets.  She loves to be under the blankets.  Sometimes she makes herself flat as a pancake and you can't tell she's under there and other times she somehow manages to make a huge mountain over where she is.
	Checking out Mark's desk... she's getting to be highly curious about everything.  It overrides her nervousness totally most of the time now.  This is one of the few pics that shows how really small she is.  She actually runs towards any loud noise, hair dryer, vacuum cleaning, fire alarm!  She's nervous but CURIOUS and not afraid or wanting to hide from noises.
	In my online grocery shopping notes I had requested paper bags for my new cat and they had forgot and bagged my order in plastic so they put 6 paper bags into the crate to give to me for Tashi.  I thought that was pretty cute.  Here she is checking one out for size.
	Here we have Tashi's kitty grass.  Coming up nicely now despite her knocking it over the first day. =)
	Awww, what a pretty girl.  This is my new favorite picture.  She looks like a mature young lady in this shot, not the barely out of her adolescence that she apparently really is, although I think the shelter overestimated her age by a couple of months because from certain angles you can see she still has the barest remnants of her little round kitten head.
	One of Tashi's very favorite spots to watch butterflies.  She looks so much bigger than she really is, and beefier too.  I don't know how she manages to weigh 8 pounds because when you see her standing up or stretched out, she's just skin and bones.  Her vet says her weight is just fine though.
	Having a nice sun bath in the living room.  She's quite at home all over the place by now and it hasn't even been a full week yet.  She's doing GREAT.
	Everyday Tashi does something new and cuddly as she calms down more and more and realizes she is loved and belongs here.  It's like a present every day she gives with her trust.  A new surprise gift of love.  This is her absolute favorite sleeping position tucked into Mark's elbow.
	This is Tashi's favorite spot while I'm at my desk... in Mark's chair right next to me.  How can I get any work done with this little diva stretching out next to me being so cute?
	If Mark's using his chair, Tashi hangs out on my desk sometimes.  She likes to be wherever we are but she does have a somewhat predictable hierarchy already.  If anyone is in bed, she hangs out with them.  If I'm watching TV she hangs out with me on the sofa just for the change of scenery probably (or because Mark doesn't have a "Tashi Towel" on his desk, LOL!)
	Mark splurged on this really fancy cat tree so his spoiled little princess diva cat could hang out in the accommodations she's quickly becoming accustomed to.  She took to it like a duck to water once one of her "Tashi Towels" was placed on it... no surprise there.  He said none of the smaller models were "good enough" for her, Aww.
	Tashi and her Daddy being all cute watching TV together.  She doesn't stay long but she's starting to sometimes do this for a little "intensive loving" session.  Going good!  The back paw stretch cracks me up... the little toes all spread out too... too cute.
	Well here we are, already into October!  Tashi has been really doing GREAT.  She is very comfortable around home now and rarely her old "jumpy" self how she was at first.  She's taken to her "cat tree" in a big way too which was very nice of her since normally if you spend more than $2 on anything for a cat they don't care for it, just less 100 times that!
	Tashi is getting more snuggly by the week... I can't say by the day because going is a bit slow for her, as always, but she is jumping up on the sofa and bed for more snuggles, more often with less hesitation and staying longer.  She's also purring quite loudly at times now... not for long but a lot louder and stronger of a purr than before.
	Tashi doesn't consider a ball of yarn so much a toy as a pillow... yes, our Princess Diva gets what could be termed enough beauty rest to earn the title "is that a stuffed animal?" She likes a couple (3 or 4) short and sweet play sessions every day, but the rest of her time is spent, well - resting.  I guess that's why they call it the rest of her time!
	To say Tashi's tree house is a success would be a huge understatement as she LOVES it.  But probably her least used area of it is the "cave" - at least until I put one of her favorite things in the whole world in there... a paper grocery bag!  She's been in there hanging out inside her torn up bag for 2 days... she looks pretty comfortable too.
	Tashi has noticed that we pay a lot of attention to the big hunks of plastic on our desks, so she's taken to inserting herself between her people and their hunks of plastic lately.  She has also taken to having little naps on our chests in the night... unless she's done something in her catbox that she doesn't want to cool off (something she's not accustomed to) in which case she jumps all over our bodies until we get up and see to it.
	Since our princess diva has been making such a habit of jumping on desks lately, a special "kitty cubby" couldn't have been far behind and sure enough... here she is looking as cute as can be in her own little space on the "important hunk of plastic" table... a place of honor indeed!  She's also become more and more vocal in her little squeaky meow.  We talk to her a lot and she's always squeaked or just moved her mouth a fair amount but lately this has increased a lot.  We love it.
	Finally... Tashi decided to try out my lap after months of not... she stays a LONG TIME too!  No repeat performances yet but at least she's going in the right direction.  It was wonderful, of course.  What kind of heaven is a cat on your lap?  I say a pretty nice one.
	I threw one of her fur mice onto the sofa a few times in a row as she's always avoided the sofa, including when I'm on it and would like her to sit with me.  Well after a few times jumping on to get the mouse she just fell over playing with it and hugging it to her and then she must have tired out because she just had a nap after a while.  This is a very good development!
	Tashi thinks jumping up on this big xmas package is a great idea... wonder what she'll do next week when she runs into the living room and takes a flying leap on to a box that won't be there anymore?  I'll probably get one of her famous "dirty looks" that she frequently doles out when things are below par in her opinion.
	Afternoon sunbathing has become ritual and tradition. During the Summer months the angle is much better for this activity and Tashi has taken early note, not to mention advantage, of it.  Sometimes she just stretches out her paws and leaves them stretched - including her little toes spread apart... so cute.  She stops doing it if she hears the camera click open though!
	Here she is in her little "fort" which now lives next to her very large cat tree so we can get up there to pet her or get fur mice that she hasn't knocked back in her incessant games of "kitty volley mouse" which is her favorite game.  I'll have to get a video showing her playing it as explaining it in words would not it justice.
	If I sit on the sofa to watch tv or read, Tashi loves to run over and collapse at my feet and roll over and get her belly rubbed.
	As you can see, she really enjoys this.  It's just another example of her strong desire to always be near me.
	If I am at my desk a lot, she has to jump up 3 and 4 times a day and to have a quick snuggle-nap between my arms, resting her head on one, belly up just case I can't really do anything with her laying all over the keyboard and have a free hand to give belly rubs with.
	Here Tashi is in her cat tree bucket waiting for someone to throw a fury mouse near her, so she can bat it back or slam dunk it to the floor or capture it with her claws and have a big chew on it.
	This pic is entitled "Bucket Butt" for a reason... sometimes positioning is everything and sometimes it's just another one of life's interesting challenges to overcome.  It looked a lot  more compromising about 2 seconds before I got the camera out, but she managed to pull around a bit to reach the mouse.
	That kitty bed someone turned their nose up at for months and refused to even LOOK at is is now the favorite spot in the whole wide world to be, night and day, upside right and upside down... it's all good as long as it's in the kitty bed!  Forget catnip, this kitty bed is the new kitty crack.
	Tashi got a kitty DVD with birds in it... as you can see, she's pretty interested in it.  She doesn't paw at the screen but she does seem highly amused when I do.  Her lung condition still keeps her stamina pretty dismal though and she still shows signs of slowness and very little play initiative or follow-thru but with a lot of human input, she definitely enjoys playing.
	Well the treasured kitty bed that was so popular all Summer is now anathema, but the heretofore ignored cat tree cubby is finally (after 18 months) become the "IT" spot de jour.  I couldn't resist this photo... she's just too cute!
	Those toes must smell good because Tashi's always turning over and around and inside out to cuddle her face up next to or buried into as many paws and toes as possible.
	The new washing machine seems to be a big hit with Tashi... the way it stops and starts on it's own seems to fascinate her no end.  She's really scared of it (so far) but not enough to keep her from trying to watch.
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