September 8, 2021
While the cats spend the day at the vet to get vaccinated and health-checked, we take advantage of their absence to thoroughly clean the room.
It not only freshens up the room, but it also helps us pass the time so that we don’t think about the cats at the vet the whole time. The first vet visit is a big deal for Mitsy in particular who, as far as we know, has never seen the inside of a veterinary clinic, let alone be handled by anyone else than us. And we have not gotten to the stage yet where we can lift her up… In the early AM we lure Mitsy into a carrier with some yummy food, then pack up the kittens in another carrier and off we go. Not a peep from either of them and before we know it, we are back home – let the works begin!
We are not just doing this to vacuum and clean. Our main reason actually is the carpet. It is a ‘last piece of a roll’ good quality carpet we bought to put on top of the room carpet that is part of the rental house. It keeps it from getting too soiled. What we never even thought about was the facts that carpets that are not on a foundation of wood or something like that, move. So the cat room developed a lot of ‘waves’ and the carpet had crept away from the walls. We wanted to try and fix that but for that the room had to be completely empty. So the crates, the tree, the chair and all of the other parafernalia needed to be removed…. It worked! See the timelapse video below to witness the cleaning in 2 minutes. I wish it really took that little time…
Because it went so fast and smoothly we had some hours left to tend to our sore muscles and joins. Weird to have no cat family to feed and look after. But also nice to air everything out, and bring all of our debris to the tip later on. We feel content and proud of ourselves and are now eagerly awaiting the return of the felines…