Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Licorice & her family
Licorice is one of my many cats. Last August she had four kittens only three survived. Instead of finding new homes for the three, I kept them. Love them sooooo much. Rita, a clone of her mother is the oldest. Rocky is the middle kitten and the only boy. He's like his father, is white with black spots including a half of a mustache. Sadie is the youngest kitten and also the biggest one. She's big because she got pregnant back in the spring time...she and Rocky were being bad...LOL...got her spayed so we never got to see her kittens. She would of had five of them, but she was way too young to be a mother.
The above picture is of Licorice when we first saved her from the hands of some children. they were trying to get her down from a tree by spraying her with water. Little Licky is a rescue kitten.
She's not the only one I rescued.
The first kitten was Pepper, he lived in the apartment building we lived in before moving to Richmond. I was finally able to trap him after many tries. He was very feral. We only had him for a few months. He ran away the minute we tried to get him out of our car when we moved to Richmond...haven't seen him since 1997. Hopefully, he was able to survive living off the street. Pepper ran away, Whiskers got out of the house on Memorial Day weekend in 1998 (never saw him again) and Cami was killed by one of our dogs. (will talk about those two one day)
Rescued Poe back in 2000. Saw a tiny kitten running around a creek in Concord as I waited to get car insurance. He was a cute tabby. Took forever to get him but I did...LOL...took him home in my purse...he was that tiny...LOL..even took him into Safeway to get him some chicken...he was so happy when he ate the chicken...the kids went crazy when they saw little Poe (named after Edgar Allan Poe...LOL) The cats, Sonik & Fluffy, weren't all that happy to have someone else move into the house...it took forever for them to warm up the Poe. Poe was sooo cute but full of energy, he drove Sonik and Fluffy crazy.....poor guy bother Sonik so much that Sonik couldnt urinate. This caused problems for Sonik ($600 worth)...One day I let Poe out watched him cross the street and never saw him again. Have no clue where he went, sometimes I think I see him walking down the street but it might be one of his kids (never got him neutered) Miss him a lot.
after losing Poe, I found a gray kitten the following year. He looked like the kitten from Stephen King's Pet Cementary so I named him Lucifer/Satan. He was a cute little kitten. Only had him for a month before he died. My kids called me to tell me he was dead, I rushed home from work and buried him in my front yard. Poor little kitten.
Licky was the next feral kitten I rescued...LOL...but she wasn't the last. My former co-worker gave me Chaos, a cat she rescued from a barn. Chaos is a beautiful white and orange tabby. He's big but not as big as Sonik ( a black long hair) Chaos is three years old...he's full of energy and loves to hunt...he brings home mice, birds or rats...crazy kitten...but I love him.
the last kitten I rescued is Jenny. She's a white cat and totally deaf...she was under a car when I rescued her. I see her mother running around the streets. Hope she can hear, don't want to find her on the side of the street dead.
Owner of eight cats now...LOL..time to feed all of them...LOL
