Share the fun December 3, 2011

Ravensong, known around the house as Raven, is a sweet little Solid Black kitten who just happens to be looking for a home.  She is a show kitty, and I will show her if she stays here much longer, but I’d rather she find her forever home where she will be loved and adored.

Raven started out being a little on the nutty side, like her mother, Casey, whom one has to catch with a butterfly net sometimes. Still, Casey is a super sweet kitty and she brings me great joy for I too, and a little on the nutty side. I’ve been working a lot with Raven to get some of the nuttiness out of her for several months, and it is finally paying off. She has been a house kitty since she was tiny, and Drifter thinks she’s a big, fuzzy toy for him to chew on. As she has matured, she has calmed down a bit and appreciates the attention of people more than cats. I guess now that some of her nuttiness is gone, I should now say that she  “has a lot of personality.”

Looking at our website, Raven and I are checking the daily stats. Fibonacci is hiding behind the computer.

I find that one of the most the interesting things about little Raven is that she loves electronic devices like TVs and computers; especially laptop computers. I only use the laptop when I’m too lazy to go upstairs and use my PC or when I need to take a quick peek at something online. Whenever she hears me typing on the keyboard, she comes running from another part of the house and jumps up on the arm of my recliner to settle in for some shared computer time. She will sit there for as long as I will permit it, watching the cursor fly across the screen and occasionally attempt to walk across the keyboard to investigate things more closely. That hasn’t helped me much, so she is learning to stay off the keyboard. But it’s hard not to touch something that is so interesting.

Raven is learning how to do internet research with Google, but gets a little bored with email. There’s just not enough action with email to keep her interested for very long.  I suppose she might like to read a book online if it had pictures, but I don’t have the patience for that.

Raven would like to find a new home with a family who was interested in the things she is – electronics – so she can maintain her present activities. She is open to studying computer programing and maybe even computer repair. Online courses would suit her best with some on the job training, of course. She is very bright and I dare say, gifted in the field of computer science. Computer graphics probably wouldn’t be a good career choice for her, because she has yet to develop the necessary attention span that field requires and she has no thumbs to properly work a mouse or track ball. Still, I’m sure she would be very interested in learning about computer graphics and giving it a whirl. This little girl isn’t afraid to try new things.

Raven also likes to watch TV. When she isn’t walking behind the TV trying to figure out what makes it work, she is sitting in front of the screen watching the action. She is particularly fond of commercials and we haven’t found any of the new programs this season that please her – neither have I.

The other night, I was trying to take pictures of Raven watching TV, and it wasn’t as easy of a task I thought it would be since I needed a light colored background. The images on the screen changed faster than I could point and shoot so it took forever to get something to come out clearly and have a little black kitty show up. Commercial after commercial passed but I was determined to get my shot. She would occasionally take a break from TV watching and wander behind the screen looking for goodness knows what, and somehow managed to loosen the wires to the sound box thingy so the sound cut off and on for a few days until we figured out what was going on, but finally, I got my shot during a commercial about I have no idea what – I was too busy watching Raven to put any of my attention on what was on TV.

The next day, I was downloading the images of Raven and the only one that came out well enough to use for the blog was this one. The cool thing is that it was the perfect commercial for this little black kitty, Ravensong, to have her picture taken in front of since she one who is always happy and loves running around the house. I think you’ll agree that it could not be any more perfect.

Raven watching a little TV with me the other night.