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Meet Saoirse

This week’s Pet of the Week is Saoirse!

Saoirse is a 6-year-old brown and gray tabby whose favorite hobbies are top speed zooming, snoozing in patches of sunlight, and screaming for her dinner (starting two hours before dinnertime). She prefers not to cuddle, but will gladly nap beside her human, Christina, during her online classes!

If you’d like to submit your pet to be the iSchool Pet of the Week, shoot us an email at ischool-support@illinois.edu with their name, photo, and any cute stories you’d like to share!

Meet Lyra

This week’s Pet of the Week is Lyra!

This week’s Pet Of The Week is Lyra! Lyra is a feisty 9 month old Siberian cat. She loves to sleep in her hammock and watch all of campus pass by her window after her daily zoomies around her apartment! Everyone at the Help Desk loves this beautiful kitty and her fiery attitude!

Lyra

If you’d like to submit your pet to be the iSchool Pet of the Week, shoot us an email at ischool-support@illinois.edu with their name, photo, and any cute stories you’d like to share!

Meet Harrison Ford

This week’s Pet of the Week is Harrison Ford!

Harrison is a nearly 3 year old tuxedo kitty. He was his human’s first and last attempt at fostering! Harrison’s name was inspired by his human’s love of Indiana Jones and Han Solo. When he’s not hard at work unraveling balls of yarn, Harrison enjoys long naps in the window and gazing at himself in the mirror. The Help Desk adores this little businessman and wishes him luck in his next feature film!

Harrison Ford

If you’d like to submit your pet to be the iSchool Pet of the Week, shoot us an email at ischool-support@illinois.edu with their name, photo, and any cute stories you’d like to share!

Nimbus needs your attention ASAP PLZ

This week’s iSchool Help Desk Pet of the Week is Nimbus!

Nimbus is a grown lady cat, but she may never stop acting like a kitten. According to her owners, Adam and Siggi, Nimbus has exactly zero chill, patience, or self-preservation and often takes to trotting up and down the hallways crying loudly for someone to please, for goodness’ sake, come and play! This little fur-ball of pure energy will make sure there is never a dull moment in her household.

If you’d like to submit your pet to be the iSchool Pet of the Week, shoot us an email at ischool-support@illinois.edu with their name, photo, and any cute stories you’d like to share!

Feline Pals

We’ve got two kitties to start off your three-day weekend. Junior and Rusty are pals who spend their days laying around sharing telepathic messages about which chairs get the best sunlight. We hope that your weekend is just as lazy as theirs!
Decorative graphic featuring two cats laying on a dark orange couch. The cat on the right (Junior) is a brown tabby with a white pelt and white paws. He's lying on his stomach with his front paws dangling in from. The cat on the left (Rusty) is an orange tabby. He's lying on his side with his front paws crossed in front of him. Both cats are staring off into space with apathetic expressions.
 
If you would like to feature your pet for pet of the week, please email us at ischool-support@illinois.edu.

All Hail Queen Zanie!

Pet of the Week goes out to Zanie! She is the true queen of Professor Ocepek’s house, and she could not let her furry roommate, Jake, take all the POTW spotlight. She is described as possibly the most opinionated cat that has every lived, and there’s even a rule in Zanie’s house all about her: if she is sitting on you, you do not have to get up unless there is an emergency. What a powerful pet! 👑

Picture of a cat laying on pillows

Lights, camera, pose!

Pascal here is truly owning it in this picture, and the coordination of his bandana to the green background is outstanding! He could be working the runway in all his fashionable adorableness. 
Do you want your pet to have their moment to shine like our friend Pascal? Send us a picture and some fun facts about your pets, and we would love to make them our next Pet of the Week! Email us at ischool-support@illinois.edu.
Image of dog with green bandana around his neck.

Flashback Friday: Vintage Kitty Edition

Happy Friday, everyone! This week’s Pet(s) of the Week features our first vintage pets circa 1980!

Up in front we have Rupert (orange) whose owner, Carol, told us he loved to “walk around the apartment just doing loud meowing with slight pauses sometimes as if they were words.” Freddy (black) looks to be having a moment of intense contemplation that may be relatable for some of us as we finish up our second week back to school. Not to be left out, we have their papier-mâché friend in the back completing this perfect feline trio.

These three friends and everyone at the Help Desk are wishing you all a happy Labor Day weekend!

A Warm Start to the Semester

We hope you get some time to relax before the start of the semester, just like this week’s Pet of the Week, Dexter (black) and Uma (black and white)

Thank you to Dexter and Uma’s favorite human, Kati, for sharing with us what peak relaxation looks like.  Good luck in the Fall semester, Illini!

for the very best girl

Today’s Pet of the Week is a little different than usual. Earlier this week, a very good pup who means so much to us at the Help Desk passed away. We’d like to take a moment to tell you about her and remember her.

This is Lilly. Sometimes, her human, Tad, would bring Lilly to work with him, and Lilly would run to the Help Desk for pets and scratches. She had the waggiest tail and gave the best kisses. And there were a few times where Lilly happened to be in the building on the same day that things were pretty stressful at the Desk. We would take breaks to go see Lilly, and she always made our day a little better.

We already miss you so much, good buddy, but we know you’re watching over your humans and you know how much we all love you. Thanks for being the goodest girl.