everyone i would love for you to meet the newest member of the nomadic fanatic team this is opie
don't act like you're surprised everyone we all knew this day would come eventually just didn't
know how it was gonna work in any obviously i have some very very exciting news some of the biggest
news in in 11 years of my life on the road here on this channel here in this video today you're going
to meet the newest member of our traveling team and i'm going to show you exactly how it happened
it's been difficult keeping this a secret over the past week and not letting opie get in the shot too
early but i have a bunch of video to share with you how opie came into our lives this past week
and how he is adjusting how tara is doing with a new baby brother this is really exciting for
me so thanks for joining me guys i will be uploading this video with some nomad
internet link below in the video description below i don't want to try to pretend like
i i am replacing my beloved cat jax who passed away recently about a month ago today actually but
um i do i had felt a little guilty that you know bringing terry in and having her only for six
months and then with jack's passing you know tara is left without a brother um so i knew i
knew eventually that i was probably going to get a playmate for tara and opie the name opie that i
picked also comes from sons of anarchy jax tara and opie they they are all characters from sons
of anarchy the tv show uh anyways i'm not going to talk this whole video i i want to show you what's
going on i'm here at a familiar spot camping i'm wearing some sunglasses right now because my
eye is still messed up comes back just about every year my my eye right here gets infected
and i'm going to go get some more antibiotics but here's my campsite with tater tot and miranda
let's go meet opie it is a really pretty campsite there's six more sites down there and i'm the only
one here and look who's already here to greet us mr opie dopey when he's being a dope he's gonna
be opie dopey when he's being cute he's just opie me sweet baby boy him's precious he is uh 12 weeks
12 weeks old and he is quite the explorer tara we love you so much tara we love you don't we
yes we do she's the queen she's always gonna be my queen yep so now like i said i i've actually
been keeping this a secret or at least trying to i think you've actually seen opie in a couple shots
i've i've definitely been doing a lot behind the scenes to integrate opie into this life
uh however i have a bunch of video because i still chronicalized everything that's gone on and
i'm gonna get you caught up on a week's worth of of opie entering our lives right now so you all by
now know the story of how tara came into my life to to be a little sister to jax she's a rescue
kitty um i don't know what happened the first year of her lives i got her when she was 11 months
uh however she's a little timid she's very independent she doesn't like to be
pet or held really that much although she is starting to change she's starting to
maybe be a little more comfortable in in the rv um but i didn't i didn't know what happened in
her previous life opie is just kitten opie i actually went to a humane society uh back
over by the shop i'm in kansas city right right now and um went to see all the little kittens
and i said i want to take this kitten into the cat acquaintance room over there and that's what i did
here's the first video of him crawling all over me he was he was purring he was kneading he just
wanted to be right up on me the entire time from the time i entered the humane society to
the time i walked out with opie in my hands was about 50 minutes total paperwork and everything
i didn't ask tara first i didn't bring tara to see how they would introduce
i just brought opie home and here's what happens i put opie down on the floor here in the rv
he walked right up to tara with confidence tara didn't growl didn't hiss and uh from that day
forward things just kept getting better a lot like jax uh ob really loves his food we are
still transitioning from his kitten food to the food that he's gonna be eating here we have about
four or five days left of transitioning uh here's the two of them eating as far away as possible
but they don't growl at each other um opie just eats his food he doesn't try to steal tara's food
tara's okay with every look at that face look at that sweet adorable face opie and here they are as
close as they normally are with their water bowls separating them only look do you hear the motor
do you hear this voter every morning now he just cannot leave my side unbelievable at night he does
like to sleep between my legs there although tara will sometimes take over and just kind of take his
spot and push him to the outside it's kind of the premium spot there oh wait rewind uh before
we came home how about the car ride home from the shelter here it is here is opie just sitting
in my lap me holding him as we're riding down the road in my smart car looking out the window
he's not purring during this trip right now but he's not scared he's not his scene he's not crying
uh he's you know he's just looking out very curious of everything and i'm like oh my gosh
i'm gonna have another traveling kitty here and i was really happy uh the first stop we
made was actually modified auto and here is opie exploring the lobby of modified auto there just
confident as ever here's him doing a leap to my desk because that cat cannot leave my side and
never wants to let me work on the laptop alone no matter how many times i put him back down or move
into the bed he always wants to be somewhere here around this desk area it's hilarious again opie is
not replacing jax and i'm not saying that opie is better than tara tara is a very independent
different cat she's gonna change opie's to change so like opie's not going to want to be
on my chest like that all the time every single morning he's he's going to grow into his own
and and probably change as well but right now i'm loving all this attention that i can get you know
the two of them sitting here on the mariners fleece blanket together as you can see
he you know i think opie is definitely medium hair he's not long hair but he's definitely gonna
have a lot more fur than tara i'm pretty sure and additionally here just for reference how are the
two getting along eric well real time it's been a week but three nights on on the third night
together i was sitting in my recliner watching tv and this happened uh it was definitely opie that
initiated it of course kittens want to play right well tara seems to be okay with it she was playing
right back she was chasing him i don't like that opie goes up there in the dash but uh and she's
not being too mean when she plays you know she is she's treating opie like like a fragile little
kitten uh whereas jax would be really really uh kind of a little too mean with tara when he used
to play with her but tara seems to understand that it's a baby kitten and she needs to be a
little careful look at that smile that is one happy kitten he is so glad to have a big sister
and i think tara is happy too so okay so it took three days for their first time to play how about
adding a new intro eric and getting a meow from uh opie unfortunately from the time i saw opie
the first time at humane society today four i guess it was no it was the morning of day five
uh every time opie tried to meow he would just make no sound he'd go and nothing would come out
even at the shelter i thought opie didn't have a meow and they didn't they didn't know for sure
because they hadn't had him that long they didn't know if like something was wrong in
his voice box or something or if he needed to grow into a mew a meow of sorts but um like i
said on the morning of day five here inside the rv tara always meows when it's breakfast time i think
opie just after five mornings straight started looking at what tara was doing and thinking
is this how i get food check this out it is absolutely adorable opie's first mew
what
what talks i didn't even know you talk
oh you hungry you know what's in the fridge did you did your big sister tara teach you how to cry
i have been patiently waiting to hear you meow you are just too cute so that's great to know that
opie does actually have a meow he loves sitting here at the desk like i said all the time they
love cuddling on the blanket out by the window they put up with each other um this is another
night when i'm watching tv and he's passed out near my neck he loves the dash looking straight
out at the traffic my tomtom navigator there and uh now you can see the size difference in in the
two of them and there they are passed out moments later in that same shot just stinking cute and
adorable i love these two okay so playtime first meow how long before they started to love on each
other like actually love on each other i thought this would take months guys i thought just like
jackson tara it would be on the second or third month that we actually saw uh tara reach over
and start to groom jacks well as you know i just left robert's house here in kansas city yesterday
i was sitting on the recliner and this happened okay and where playtime was initiated by opie this
is definitely started by terri she's grooming him she's literally grooming opie and it's so precious
um i i think that means that she's accepted him and obviously opie feels comfortable to
to allow her to groom him i have not seen him groom her yet so that may take some time but just
the fact that he's comfortable in this position and as far as tara i also thought maybe this is
some of her motherly instincts coming through i mean she is one year old opie's three months old
and maybe she just feels that this is her her baby her little kitten that she needs to groom
or maybe it's just a brother sister love thing and it's going to keep getting better either way
it melts my heart and oh my look at that picture that's a postcard picture there precious
uh also we're fighting in the window here that's later that same day right after grooming we're
gonna we're gonna play and fight in the windshield anyways that and then okay here we are at night um
also grooming a little bit playing a little bit i think opie may have been biting or licking tara's
foot there in that particular shot but these two are just stinking adorable and i do need to get
opia's own mickey id tag i'm not going to be going back to walt disney world to do that i do have a
friend there who is supposed to be getting me one and shipping it to the shop before thanksgiving
actually so anyways that's all the video i have for now i definitely feel like the hard
part's over i have introduced my sweet new baby kitten he needs to go in and get his rabies shot
his last shot he needs to get neutered you're not broken but you are going to get fixed okay look
at that golden coat he is just so handsome can't wait for him to grow into this fluffy body you
fuzzy butt and and tara again you're my queen we love you so so much i got the brusher well i got
the brusher for you but i also got the brusher for me okay that takes some of the cuddle pressure off
you right all right girl uh besides the stuff i want to do up in the dash to kind of kitten
proof that area is a couple more things i'm going to be talking about before thanksgiving as far as
making the rv work for for two cats um because you know litter and smell and space and cat proofing
things and stuff like that there's there's lots more i gotta think about and work on and uh anyway
i just i just feel good it feels good i feel like i've been keeping this from you for a week like so
except for patreon and and instagram a day early but uh thanks for joining me guys uh tara
opie and i will see you in the next video and hopefully soon we will also have a new intro
uh thumbnail banner and everything that includes opie as part of the life because
he is now permanently a part of our life and he is going to be one happy cat traveling the
country and exploring the world so thanks for joining me guys i hope you're looking forward
to a very happy exciting thanksgiving next week i know i am as well i have a lot to be thankful for
i'm not a bitter person it it has been a rough year for me on on the road but
the the joy and love that a pet can bring you oh i needed this i needed this anyway
i love you all i'll see you in the next one probably on monday bye guys
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