I Found A New Home

Thank you everyone for your sympathy.  My plea for help finding a new home before John’s neighbors bake me in the underground oven was by far the most viewed post in all of October. 

I can now happily announce that once John leaves me for America, I’ll be living with Peace Corps Volunteer Kaitlin Tufts on the main island of Tongatapu.  We already met when she visited Ha’apai last June and she made a fun cuddle buddy.  She promises to keep me safe and feed me well.  She’s a vegetarian, though, and I refuse to eat anything but straight fat and protein, so we’ll have to work something out.  I also hear there’s a dog gang already there, so I’ll probably challenge their leader for at shot at top dog.  John tells me Kaitlin lives away from city so there won’t be many cars around, which is a good thing because I do love to play chicken with them (but for some reason always lose L). 

I want to thank everyone else who offered their homes to me in Tonga:  Mark & Elena, TK, and Elenoa.  I also want to thank John’s cousin Katie for offering a spot in her home in Illinois even though her husband would probably have killed her.

John says I’ll need to take a 45 minute flight to Tongatapu in a wooden cage he still needs to make.  I’m not looking forward to that, but I should probably be good to him since he’s been feeding me like a king this month.  We have only 17 more days of bonding before he leaves me so there’s been a lot of cuddling. 

I overheard Kaitlin telling John on the phone that a year from now when her service ends she’ll be willing to put me on a plane and send me to Chicago.  ATTENTION JOHN'S FRIENDS & FAMILY!  That means we have one more year to convince his parents to take me in to their soon-to-be-empty-nest!  Tell them how you feel this Christmas.