It's hard to believe that it has only been one year since Ripley came to live with us. He has been a little joy and blended in immediately into his new family of one rather large white curly sisterand two felines. I will never forget the first day I saw him at the shelter. He was a big matted furball, skinny and badly in need of a bath and a haircut. He had been brought in the night before as a stray and all that he was wearing was one of those old white flea collars around his neck. I have thought of his first family often in this past year and will always be puzzled as to how he came to wind up in such dire straits. I know I was meant to be at the shelter that day because I was able to be the first one to fill out an application on him and he became mine after the 7 day waiting period. In his honor I want to post a few pictures, which some of you may have already seen before, but it sort of tells his story.
The vet had estimated him to be about 3 years old, so today we are celebrating his "4th" birthday. Ripley we love you!
This is his shelter picture.
The girls at the shelter had shaved him down to the skin to remove his mats and here is how he looked when we brought him home.
Here is is playing with Little Duckie that his Auntie Rachel (mom of Hannah and Tucker) sent him shortly after his arrival.
Sporting his new NASCAR jacket bought for him by my son.
More to come...
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