Hello - OK, many of you probably know from my posts from a few weeks ago that our beloved Leo, the handsome orange tabby, got very sick and died suddenly, though he was only around 4-6 years old. We are still very sad about the fact that Leo is no longer with us - he was a huge personality, and had the biggest heart! I just received Leo's memorial stone in the mail today - it is from Sandcarved Creations, and it's great. They did an excellent job, and I highly recommend them to anyone looking for personalized pet memorial stones.
We started looking in PetSmart at the Luv-A-Pet Center and thinking about possibly adopting another cat (or 2) 2 weeks ago. Well, we found a couple (actually more than that - however, we have to limit ourselves!) from a wonderful shelter group called Open Door Animal Sanctuary. They never cage their cats and dogs, not even at the Luv-A-Pet Center at PetSmart! They're a really awesome no-kill rescue group that we have gotten to know quite well lately. Anyway, we adopted one white and tabby boy that turned 1 year old on 9/7/06, who had a home, but ended up coming back to the shelter. He is good with other cats and dogs, but the dog in the home he was originally adopted to wasn't so good with him. Needless to say, while he was eating some of the dog's food as a very young kitten, he got hurt - the dog broke his leg! It was such a clean break of the bone that a specialist had to perform surgery on it to put him back together, and subsequently, he has a pin in one of his front two legs (I believe it's the right one, but I don't have the vet records yet). He's perfectly normal, though - he's quite fast, jumps really high/far, and is very healthy and still happy at this point. He just had a chunk of his kittenhood taken from him. He's enjoying himself now! We renamed him (Open Door was calling him "Butters", short for "Butterball," which was his name as a very young kitten) - we're calling him Vincent b/c of his poetic, thoughtful looking face. He's quite the charmer.
We adopted a much younger guy to be his "friend" as he gets used to our house and the 3 wonderful kitties already living here. He is the most mischevious little guy - less than 5 lbs. He (originally named "Trent", but we named him Mikey, in honor of LSU's wondeful mascot, Mike the Tiger - Geaux Tigers!) is very brave and explores our house like he owns the place. While that sometimes gets him into trouble with Leila, the evil queen of our house (we're all afraid of her at times, including Bailey & Claudia), he's not letting it phase him too much. He likes to get into pretty much every type of human food he can, so we have to be especially careful now when we're fixing meals/eating them, but we wouldn't trade him for the world. He's wonderful. He and Vincent get along very well also - they love to chase, play and wrestle - it's nice that they have each other as the other 3 still struggle to accept the new ones. Considering that it's only been 1 week, Bailey and Claudia are already doing well accepting the new guys, hissing and growling far less - they never have tried to hurt or chase them that I've seen. Leila, on the other hand, is always out to get them, but I think Vincent has bravely chased her on several occasions, which is great to watch.
In the next post on this thread, I posted a couple of pictures. We haven't taken too many so far, but I will continue to post them periodically when I get the chance.
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