the trouble with cats....

Meet Bells...

Bells is our cat...

Her original name was not Bells... it was Bella, but seeing as i am not one of

the many Twilight freaks out there and not personally attached to that name (you just can't escape it) we call her Bells...

Bells was not ORIGINALLY our cat.

Seeing as Tez and i are NOT cat people we were just taking her in as a favor for a short while until another home could be found for her....

we didn't mean to fall in love with her... but look at her:

Bells enjoys many things such as

Looking out the window: (Emo pic)

Climbing things:

Sitting on the couch:

Laying on the couch in awkward positions:

Laying on the floor in awkward positions:

Laying on Tez and falling asleep: (she loves him)

We're friends....

Little did i know that this week would be the ultimate test of our friendship....

It all started with an idea...

Meet PUMA the neighborhood cat:

One day Tez and I got it in our head that it would be GREAT to have them meet each other:

HOWEVER things DID NOT go too well...after smelling each other Bells hissed scorning Puma's advances and then downright ignored his presence. Little did we know that this little meeting of "friends" would invite other friends into our house....

FLEA'S

Yes... and if you know me, you know that there is nothing i despise MORE than fleas... I've been traumatized by them

A) for some reason they choose ME out of a group of people...5 people to be exact (in the last house i lived in with 5 girls, one girl had a dog who contracted fleas and did the other girls get multiple bites all over their body? no.. did i? YES)

B) They bite and it freaken HURTS...stings...it's the WORST

C) They are tiny and they jump (i get freaked out just thinking about it) and when they jump they are never to be found again... until they end up BITING you...again

D) THEY MASS REPRODUCE...think rabbits only tinier and DEADLIER

So needless to say, at 1AM when i found a flea on my cat all hell broke loose!

I started freaking out throwing anything that Bella had ever touched in a pile (to burn) while frantically rambling flea facts to Tezar who just stood there dumbfounded about the events occurring/crazy lady in front of him. As i struck a match ready to burn the place down Tezar convinced me that i was being a TAD bit dramatic...ME DRAMATIC?! (ok so there were no matches involved... but there were piles!) He then assured me that apart from the piles to be washed asap there was not much to be done at 1 AM and that he will help me sanitize the house tomorrow.

I got absolutely no sleep that night. First, b/c i would not let bells sleep in our room and, well, she kind of has separation anxiety.. so she meowed outside of our door all night (not cute)

Second, b/c i just kept thinking about fleas jumping on me and biting me all night. EW!

The next day after giving the cat 2 flea baths, giving her a flea pill from the vet to instantly kill all fleas, larvas (barf!!) or eggs, purchasing 7 months of Frontline flea and tick control, cleaning the entire house and spraying anything and everything that could have fleas(or larva or eggs-GAG) on them, Bells and i made up....

And after i went guerrilla warfare on my house the fleas are all gone... i hope