Conversations with Critters

Walk with the animals. Talk with the animals. And Trick or Treats shared with Noelle & Dolly & Nurse Kristin…

Nov 01, 2024

Noelle & Dolly team up with CwC for tricks and treats

Today, Critters, we welcome welcome

and her Incredible Cats, Noelle & Dolly, in a carefully curated conversation that is sure to be full of tricks and treats! We cordially invite you to come along with us in this collaborative endeavor full of companionship and a host of questions from CwC’s Core Community Cats, Jasper Kitten and Chris, who may at times find themselves careening wildly off script. Please, join us now in excellent East Coast/West Coast axis critter conversation.

Heidi: Hello, Friends! From our Condo here in Oregon, we are about to embark on a collaborative conversation with our highly esteemed colleagues from the East Coast,

Nurse Kristin

and her incredible dynamic duo Noelle and Dolly!

Jasper: Noelle and Dolly, thank you for being here. The end.

Chris: Ditto, Noelle. Ditto, Dolly. Full stop.

Noelle: It’s great to be here.

Dolly: Thank you for inviting us to join in the conversation.

Jasper: Great, this is so great. So, let’s get started. First and foremost, we provided a preview of our carefully curated questions to your Hooman

Nurse Kristin

. Six (6) Questions were provided in total.

Noelle: Yes,

Dolly: O’kay, sure.

Jasper: However, it has come to our attention that the two of you collectively and individually, have, at times, gone wildly off script.

Noelle: Yes.

Dolly: Ditto. And?

Chris: And so, let’s start with our six (6) carefully curated questions and a photo for the edification and enjoyment of our readers and we’ll see where the conversation leads us.

Field Note: Noelle and Her Creature Feature Comforts

Noelle: We’re all ears.

Dolly: We are.

Jasper: Noelle and Dolly, would you say that your relationship is a Trick or a Treat?

Dolly: Treat.

Noelle: Trick.

Jasper: Critters, an editorial comment from your Hooman has come to my attention in the course of our conversation and I quote from Kristin, would you, “Care to elaborate?” Unquote. The end.

Dolly: I love treats.

Noelle: Me too, but for the record, I enjoyed my time as the sole and only kitten here in this fairytale furever home.

Jasper: Thank you for the clarification on this issue. Thank you very much.

Noelle: You’re welcome!

Dolly: You’re welcome!

Chris: Noelle, we featured you for our Christmas in July Post. With Halloween the holiday of the moment, may we ask, do you still prefer Xmas?

Noelle: Well, Chris, I really can’t say yet, it’s my first Halloween.

Chris. What.

Dolly: Honestly, it’s a whole season.

Noelle: True, like everything in New Jersey, we tend to go to extremes.

Field Note: Noelle Prepares to Fly on Her First Halloween

Chris: Critters, I too have received an editorial comment from your Hooman which has come to my attention and I quote from Kristin, in a word, “Facts.” Unquote. Full stop.

Noelle: As for Christmas, I fondly recall the massive evergreen tree from yesteryear! Inside! Pity, I was too scared to climb last year.

Dolly: Fear is a mind trap.

Noelle: Totally. This year I will conquer all my fears and grab every last one of those shiny balls!

Dolly: Wait, hold up, the tree is really coming inside?

Noelle: Yesssssss!

Dolly: Meow, luvluvluv this for us.

Noelle: The stockings will be filled with kitty treats and hung on the mantle without a care!

Dolly: Chris, we definitely prefer Christmas.

Chris: Thank you. Thank you very much for the clarification on your preferred holiday.

Jasper: And going deeper on a chronological level, Noelle, do you prefer July or October or December? Dolly, what is your preferred month when we consider July or October or December? Please, consider and comment on your Northern Hemisphere Furever Home, known in the vernacular as New Jersey, when answering. Thank you. Thank you very much. The end.

Noelle: My Jasper, that is so deep.

Jasper: Thank you, Noelle.

Dolly: For real, are you alright?

Jasper: Absolutely. Yeah, I feel good about it.

Noelle: Well, July is awfully steamy with thunderstorms and even the occasional small tornado, but the mini humans are a lot like tornadoes, they were hardly ever home in July.

Jasper: As a side note, Critters, mini humans are also known in the vernacular as children. Full stop.

Dolly: Where did they go? I was still on the streets in July.

Noelle: I believe they spent their days lounging at the beach, or in a cool theater returning in the wee hours of the night.

Dolly: I luvluvluv a little ruckus in the middle of the night.

Noelle: We know. October may bring Fall, change, and we embrace change here as much as possible.

Dolly: Those leaves though, the leaves are a sight for sore eyes come October. Although, sometimes it’s very hot still in October.

Noelle: Jasper, as I previously stated, there will be a large tree, inside, our forever home come December, probably through all of January actually.

Jasper: I see. Thank you for the spatial and chronological clarification, Noelle.

Dolly: Ridiculous.

Noelle: I know. I believe this lays this question to rest permanently.

Jasper: Given this permanence, let’s circle back to how you feel about July.

Dolly: July is too hot for me, the streets scorched my paws. Further, every last Hooman I met in July seemed bothered by the heat.

Noelle: Don’t forget about the humidity, it’s brutal.

Dolly: October brings an air of melancholy to The Garden State.

Noelle: Seasonal affective disorder.

Dolly: So SAD. Now I spend my days staring out a window, watching the squirrels run by, wondering if I’ve lost my edge.

Chris: At this point in the conversation, may I direct your attention to the Couch.

Jasper: Good point, Chris.

Chris: Thank you, Jasper. We’ve also received an editorial comment from Kristin, stating, and I quote, “Don’t worry about your edge, it’s always there if you need it.” End quote. Now, let’s move on to December in New Jersey.

Dolly: As for December, sure it’s cold, but the spirit of Christmas is alive and well in the city of Trenton. I think I’m actually from Philadelphia.

Noelle: Please, don’t get Kirstin stared on how much we al luvluvluv the city of Brotherly Love, it’s practically next door.

Dolly: If I’m being honest, December sounds cool, we’ll see.

Noelle: You have to luv it Dolly, trust me you won’t make it here unless you luv it.

Dolly: Luv?

Noelle: I’m the Princess of Peace, who brought love and joy home for the holidays.

Dolly: Well Noelle, I am the Mistress of Mountains, Dolly the Brave, only lost one of my lives in the river, but who’s counting?

Noelle: Um Kristin, I hope we have our own individual stockings.

Dolly: I don’t mind sharing the way some other kittens do.

Noelle: Boo hiss peasant, face it you’re a Second Cat Citizen.

Dolly: Don’t worry Princess Fluff Scaredy Kat, I’ll thrust a star on your crown—.

Chris: Excellent. Moving forward, I believe my next question has been answered implicitly and explicitly.

Jasper: Well said, Chris, as we had posed the question: Generally and specifically, how would you collectively and individually describe your interpersonal feline to feline dynamic at your furever home? The end.

Chris: The end.

Dolly: You know, Chris, I’m glad you brought this up, there is so much trash talking going on about the collective and interpersonal dynamics in general. Specifically, in this house, the talking never ends.

Chris: Of course.

Jasper: Of course.

Noelle: Felines in the derogatory form, feminine wiles and frenemies, all factors.

Dolly: More specifically, none of this overly affects me so I remain neutral and unbothered by most noise.

Noelle: I embrace the dialogue, however, I dislike the noise. Oh and dogs, I dislike dogs.

Jasper: Thank you for your candor.

Chris: We luvluvluv our dogs.

Dolly: Oh, I’ve run with wolves.

Noelle: Sister, I’ve learned a lot from you.

Jasper: We all have so much to learn from each other.

Chris: Well said, Jasper.

Jasper: Noelle, we understand that you were named seasonally due to being found behind a shed at Xmas. Dolly, how did you get your name and when?

Dolly: You know Jasper old pal, I have no clue! One minute I was dumpster diving, sort of content, plenty of perfectly edible food is thrown out in the Garden State.

Noelle: Facts.

Jasper: I see. Thank you for clarification on New Jersey. Thank you very much.

Dolly: This was back when I was a baby, hanging on rooftops with this raccoon named Charlie—

Noelle: You were not!

Chris: Critters, we have received a note of confirmation from Kristin and I quote, “No she was, remember Dolly walked like a raccoon? Some raccoons are domesticated.” End quote. Furthermore, I’m impressed by how this speaks to interspecies relationships. Full stop.

Noelle: Yawn.

Chris: Dolly, we understand that you were a feral cat, that is a critter who is domesticated, but has reverted to the wild, and that you were humanely trapped by an animal rescuer named, Susan.

Dolly: Yes, she was very passionate about animal rescue. So in August I was lying low, at yet another adoption day, feeling utter despair.

Noelle: Awww.

Dolly: Then along came these two young women delightful and loud mini humans, what a pair!

Noelle: They really are so loud it’s frightening.

Chris: And on that note, Kristin has informed us, “Yup, sounds like my daughters.” Full stop.

Dolly: Yup, screaming their heads off, “OMG, her name is Dolly, WAIT! WHAT! We LUV dolls, LITERALLY, and OMG STOP!!” In unison, “We LUVLUVLUV Dolly Parton!” Suddenly, the younger one realized she was in fact wearing a Dolly Parton t-shirt that day!

Noelle: Synchronicity.

Dolly: Louder they cried, “this is a SIGN from the UNIVERSE, we HAVE to call Mom immediately and beg her to let us bring Dolly home.”

Noelle: Ahem, even though they just brought home a kitten.

Jasper: And here we quote Kristin, “Correct. They made a frantic inappropriate call to the hospital.”

Dolly: Ridiculous.

Chris: Please, allow me to quote Kristin, “Yes quite. I agreed under duress, mostly to get them to stop screaming.” The end.

Noelle: Dangerous!

Dolly: Magic.

Chris: Before we get to my last question, Nurse Kristin makes a critical point, “Listen there are no accidents, only collisions.” Full stop. Now, Dolly and Noelle, in terms of Halloween costumes, after the party, who will do the laundry?

Noelle: For one, the party never stops here.

Dolly: True.

Noelle: And the only one in this house who gives a hoot about the laundry is Kristin.