We have another guest in the house, courtesy of the Stevens County Humane Society. This is Cheddar.

Cheddar is a sad case. He was found rummaging through the dumpsters at the local grocery store, sick with the sniffles and mites and hunger, but was incredibly affectionate and readily leapt into the arms of anyone who’d pay a little attention to him. We suspect he was a happy little house kitty who was abandoned by his owner at the semester break...and he was not doing so well. He is not temperamentally inclined to manage the feral lifestyle well, and it’s been TEN to TWENTY FREAKIN’ DEGREES BELOW ZERO lately.

That’s all in the past now, though. He’s staying with us, he’s been cleaned up and given a clean bill of health by the vet (and neutered—there was a downside to his rescue, I guess), and he’s filled out well on a regular diet. Now he’s looking for someone to adopt him.