Kitties

Jeremy and I going up to the Huron County Branch of the OSPCA today to look at cats. I am very much looking forward to getting a couple of kitties. I really loved having Ollie & Zoe around and I still miss them. I’ve always had cats as pets and I certainly do miss having a couple around.

Originally, we were going to adopt a couple of kittens but we are now leaning towards adopting a couple of older cats. I really feel that the older cats don’t get as much of a chance when it comes to adoption. Many of the older cats in the shelter are already spayed or neutered. Ideally, we ‘d like to have one that is declawed. I know that some people see declawing as inhumane but I like my furniture. Ollie and Zoe were both declawed and it did not affect their lives in a negative way. Mine and my brother’s cats, Chance & Shadow, were both declawed, too. At one time, I wouldn’t have declawed but I’ve seen the destruction done by my mother’s cat at my parent’s place. Mind you, Missy is incredibly intelligent, gets bored easily and when she wants attention, uses her claws on furniture and carpets. Missy needs an entire blog entry all to herself since she’s the first “mute” cat I’ve met. While most cats communite with humans through meowing, Missy does not. She wasn’t socialized properly so she never learned how. No, she communicates through staring, and if that doesn’t work, by scratching furniture or knocking stuff off tables, etc. But I digress…

So, yes, we will start the ball rolling on the cat adoption process today. I’ll probably post about how it goes. Both of us are still deciding on names as well. I’ll wait and see what the cat’s personality is like before I decide.

I’ll close the post with a picture of my cat, Chance. She passed away about three and a half years ago at the age of 13. We often referred to her as “Miss Thang” because she was so full of attitude and personality. She was a beautiful-coloured tortise shell cat that my dad rescued, along with her sister Shadow (Shadow, by the way, is still alive. She’s nearly 17 now),  from up at his office (where they were born). Chance was a big cat and you always knew when she was in the room because she would make her presence known. I still miss her quite a bit. I have many awesome memories of her though.

One of the last pictures taken of Chance. She has her white kitten with her, a toy she carried around with her all the time.

Namaste,

~Mary~

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