But they're so cute!

We were given two kittens I guess it's been two months ago.  They were really small, and really cute.  But they were from a workplace friend of Mrs. Ref and from the litter of an abandoned cat.  So, we really didn't know what we were getting ourselves into.

Other than the fees for the standard set of shots that needed to be given, we found that they had ringworm.  This entailed fees for the testing, fees for the topical medication and fees for the special shampoo.  They've been quarantined upstairs because I really don't need a case of ringworm accidentally showing up.

They're having fun running around the office, up and down the stairs, climbing all over the desk, climbing on the bed and chair, jumping into the garbage can, discovering where the extra tp is kept and whatnot.

This morning, our internet was down.  The Kid called me at work and said that they (the cats, named Ria and Lula) had knocked over the modem, disconnecting it, and that this required a call to the ISP to get it up and running again.  So at lunch I called them.

After talking to the guy on the other end of the line, it was determined that our modem was shot and he would send a tech out "sometime between 3 and 5 today."

Peachy.

After I hung up, The Kid and I were putting things back together when she discovered that the power cord for the modem had been sufficiently gnawed on to be ineffective.  So it turns out that it's the cats, not the modem.

She's going to ask the tech for a new power cord.  She also suggested that we buy some pvc pipe and run all the wires through that, because "there's no way the little Cretans can chew through pvc pipe."

She may not have actually used the term, "Cretans," but you get the idea.

So, a couple of hundred dollars in vet fees; probably a fee for a "non-warranty" service call; and some pvc pipe to protect our wiring -- all in the name of cuteness.