About 12 years ago, my precious kitty died. I was heart broken, and so my husband brought home a kitten. Except she wasn’t really a kitten. It turned out that this cat had been turned into the shelter the day before we got her. She’d been given her shots, fixed and chipped, and was still…
Some of you may have read my earlier entries about how I seem to have stolen my neighbor’s cats. Yesterday, we did the deed…we took the cats in for their appropriate surgeries. I can’t recommend Purrfect Pals enough. These folks run a no-kill shelter for cats and offer free spay/neuter surgeries for folks who can’t…
The mother cat and one of the kittens have returned to our porch. We have no idea what happened to the female kitten I called "Rose", but are happy to see the others again. Since we no longer have any responsibility towards them — our neighbor having declared them to be his cats — we…
The neighborhood cats all know I’m a sucker for a mother and kittens. This latest brood moved in under our front steps a few weeks ago. The mother cat was starving. I already have enough cats, thanks, but here was this pitiful creature and her two adorable kittens. Of course, I made the classic mistake:…
