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Boots playing

emily — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:47 +0000

I bought a new toy for Boots in the US. It’s just a ball that can be filled with food. As she plays with it, the kibble falls out one piece at a time.

Couchsurfer Lucy

emily — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:33 +0000

Lucy stayed with us last month. She was the first couchsurfer to ride in the sidecar. Yes, we did leave the car park, but it was dark outside so not good for photos.

Boots is always a popular photography subject.

Lucy is a photographer too. Gotta watch out for that paparazzi!

Couchsurfers and a CS party

emily — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

George and Marion (our Dutch surfers) on the top of our roof.

Boots likes to lay on our CSers stuff on the bed and wait to get petted. (photo by Marion)

Marion, Sandhya and I. Sandhya and her husband Nishant hosted the party and cooked delicious vegetarian Indian food. VERY delicious!!

A very diverse group – guys from San Francisco here for the eclipse, a guy that lived at the South Pole three times (my cousin Brian did that; worked at the research station there and shoveled a lot of snow), people from Isreal, Lithunania, Columbia, the Netherlands, Italy, India and a guy with Pakistani heritage living in London – all getting together in China. The world is really small now!

Jaws

emily — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:12:00 +0000

Jon snapped this photo as Boots was lying in her box on the balcony. We can’t believe how far her jaws are open in this yawn!

Flat Stanley in Shanghai

emily — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:21:00 +0000

Caleb’s 3rd grade class is doing their Flat Stanley project. Flat Stanley was waiting in our mailbox when we were in the US for so long, so we tried to take him a lot of places in a short amount of time.

Boots meets Flat Stanley.

Flat Stanley liked our view. He was surprised that he could see the pollution in Shanghai – he’d never seen anything like it back in South Dakota.

We took him to see the famous view of Pudong from the Bund.

Flat Stanley also got to ride the subway for the first time. He was glad they had the English name beside the Chinese name.

Flat Stanley on Nanjing Lu, which is similar to New York’s Times Square.

Flat Stanley and the Pearl TV Tower.

Devil kitty…

emily — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:37:00 +0000

Her eyes are like lasers in this photo!

Here is Boots’ new kitty tower. It’s pretty cool. She loves it so much that I even threw away her box. She sleeps on the second tower, and lays under it too. She won’t get in the hammock though.

I think it is exactly like the one fellow blogger WoAi got for his cat Tommy, who actually looks a bit like Boot’s sibling. Boots’ still has a couple mice hanging from the top levels, which she loves to bat at.

Boots

emily — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Boots got a new toy – a kitty tree house with 4 different levels. She likes to sit on it and look out over the city.

I have to admit, her new favorite thing is due to the fact I saw it on WoAi’s blog! His kitty Tommy has one. Wendy ordered it from China’s version of eBay for us (everything was in Chinese.) The best part is that it was about 1/3 of what it would cost in the USA.

Oh, and she likes it so much that she hasn’t sat in her box AT ALL since we got it.

Occasionally I like to use my 50mm 1.8f lens. It makes it super easy to get photos with just one area in focus.

Poor Boots!!!

emily — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:35:00 +0000

Today I took Boots to the vet. When Inge was here, we noticed that she seemed to be getting scrapes on her neck, then one appeared on her chest. Yesterday the one on her chest seemed to be getting even bigger, so we decided she should get looked at.

I took her to PAWS which may be one of the only foreign-run vets in Shanghai. The first thing he said was, “I’m going to have to shave her to get a better look.” So, she has a funky haircut now. Luckily, it is NOT fleas!! The doctor thinks that it is a fungal infection. We just have to put ointment on twice a day.

I also asked if she was too fat. The answer: yes. He said to be fair, she is a “large lady” – she has a big head and is long (sorry Boots, you are just big-boned.) She weighs 5.85 kilos right now and he wants her to get to 5 kilos in 6 months. He talked a lot about how cats typically eat 10 to 20 small meals a day, like mice or other small things, so we feed them all wrong by doing it twice a day. For other cat owners, here is a link to a site that he recommended to me.

You can all help in the fight against obesity by sending her toys! She needs more stimulation. One thing we are supposed to do is feed her 11 tiny meals throughout the day and night, and put them all over the house. Then she has to move to get them (kinda like getting prey).

Time lapse of Boots in her box

emily — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:36:00 +0000

I took a photo of Boots sitting in her box every 10 seconds for about an hour. It’s pretty funny to watch her head bob around. She is content to just sit there for hours. My last post about her in the box got 5 comments… which is way more than I usually get.

Boots in a Box

emily — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:14:00 +0000

Yesterday, Kelly (sales coordinator from the Beijing office) came to the apartment so she and Jon could put the official company chop on hundreds of bid documents. She brought all of the documents in a box, which Boots loved.

She’s always had a box addiction. This lid is her favorite type of box. The sides aren’t too high, and it’s small enough that she needs to curl up to fit in it.

I think she’s spent about 80% of her time in the box since Kelly gave it to her. At this very moment, she is sleeping in it with her head curled down and tail sticking out. Today I told Xiao Huang not to throw it away since Boots likes it so much. Thanks Kelly!