Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Thanksgiving Cat Edition

Today I’m going to introduce you to my sweet cats!

 

This how I became the crazy cat lady!

 

In September 2017 Ana came to me and asked if she could get a kitten. We already had two dogs at the time Luna and Max, and I was a dog person… or so I thought!

I mean I liked cats but never really wanted one. So, my answer to her was, “Ask your dad if he says it’s okay it’s okay with me.” I said this because I was pretty sure he would say no, guess what…he said yes and she was so happy!

 So, off to the Erie County SPCA we went and we fell in love with our Scarlett (she was named Lola). And my cat obsession began as this little creature stole my heart completely!

Scarlett is a spicy tortoiseshell; she does have a sweet side when she wants! I always say she is full of tortitude! She really doesn’t meow she kind of just yells…. noooo.

February 2018 came around and Simon wanted a cat of his own and I thought Scarlett could use a friend! I went to Pet Supplies Plus to buy food and there was Waldo, he was stray found in Niagara Falls and he was so lonely in a cage, so I brought him home and named him Jinx. They said he was around a year old.

 

Unfortunately, we didn’t even have him for two days and I had to rush him to the ER because something was very wrong with him. He was diagnosed with panleukopenia, and he unfortunately never came home. He was sweet boy and I'm so glad we were able to show him love and comfort. His loss was hard and I told Simon we would get another cat when the time was right.

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Flashforward to July 2018, The Niagara County SPCA was having the clear the shelter event all cats were $25.00 including kittens, so we took the long drive in hopes to find an orange kitten! We got there and they had no orange kittens, but there was a cage with 3 black cats in it. We took one out, I can’t remember the cat’s name, but he wanted nothing to do with us. When the volunteer put him back in the cage one of the other black kittens placed his little paw on Simon’s hand that was resting on the cage. Well played little kitty… well played! The lady took Gunther out and we fell in love with this black fluff ball! We renamed him Onyx! BEST clearance cat ever!

Onyx has always had a very special place in my heart; he is a sweet and gentle cat and he has this amazing calming effect over me and yet he’s afraid of just about everything. He doesn’t really meow, he kind of natnowes!

 

Scarlett and Onyx were doing great together! 

And then COVID hit!

May 2020, the kids and I were home 24/7 for two long months so a kitten was something we wanted. An orange kitten to be exact!

At the time the kids and I were volunteering for Ten Lives Club but that was put on hold because of the pandemic.

 I got in touch with the girls that I knew did fostering to see if any had an orange male and I hit the jackpot! One had a male calico (this is very rare) but he was too small to be fixed with the other kittens, so I fostered to adopted him, His name was Nutmeg and we changed it to Toby! Just like the last two Toby doesn’t meow, he squeaks! I give up! I guess we will never have a normal cat!

 

The kids loved having a kitten and Toby got around the clock love, introducing him to Scarlett and Onyx went smoothly. Onyx accepted him pretty much right away, but Scarlett took a few more days!

 

 

Life with three cats was great! We ended moving in August to a bigger home and the cats loved all the space and exploring a new home!

 

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Flashforward to 2023 – Divorced and moved again to an apartment with the kids and the cats! We moved in January and I knew I wanted kittens, but we were going on a vacation in August so after that I wanted to start looking.

One day at the beginning of October we went to the mall and wondered into Tabby Town, and I saw this little grey puff ball and fell in love, his name was John and he couldn’t come home right away as he needed his shots, I also wanted a girl kitten, but they only had males.

So, after signing the paperwork but not being able to bring Poe home for a week, I wanted to find a female kitten. I had a dream that night that my Poe was home playing in my room with a calico kitten. I woke up the next morning I texted my friends that foster again and the one I that fostered our Toby had a calico little girl (a few weeks older than Poe) going up for adoption the next day! It was meant to be so of course, we went and got her!

She was named Souffle, we named her Rory after my obsession with Gilmore Girls. Rory was actual home for a few days before we brought Poe home. 

  The day finally came to bring our sweet Poe, we had been visiting him almost daily, I wanted him to know he was loved. He ended up coming home with us as a foster to adopt as he was too little to get fixed. He got his name because we love Edger Alan Poe and he came home on Friday the 13^th! I didn’t think Jason or Freddy was fitting for such a love bug!

 

 

For the first month they grew up in my room, only slowly meeting the OG cats (we named Scarlett, Onyx and Toby this because they were all pre the move )

We lovingly name our two newest members… the Shittens!

It took some time, but all five cats pretty much coexist and get along!

As for the OG’s , Scarlett is 8 and believe it or not she is chilling out a bit. I would say she hates and loves us all the same.

Onyx would have been 7 and I was his person. This past January we lost Onyx, he had an enlarged pancreas, it was a very difficult time and to tell you the truth I’m still not over it.

 Toby is 5 and still the sweetest and strangest boy but he really has zero brain cells on most days, it maybe be an orange cat thing! Ana 100% is his person.

As for the shittens Rory and Poe are 2 now and love each other completely!

 Rory is just so sweet and has such a kind heart and her fur feels like velvet. She claimed Simon as her person.

Poe well, all I can say is we love him even though he is just a little troublemaker and he really is the dumbest cat I’ve ever met but he is cute, fluffy and sweet and very much a lap cat! I’m also thankful that the little shit claimed me to be his person!

And we now have two cats that meow, Rory has a very soft meow as Poe has loud meow more like a roar, okay, so I have one cat the family meows! I’ll take it!

 

I love my little cat family so much!

Happy Thanksgiving from

Scarlett, Toby, Rory and Poe!

In loving memory of Jinx and Onyx!