More animals

In April of 2007 our cat was very pregnant. She had eluded us when we had made an appointment for her to go to the vet, and so she ended up pregnant before we could do anything about it. One day she disappeared for a long time. Then she showed up very skinny. So we searched and searched for the babies and couldn't find them. We followed her eventually (without her noticing) and she went under our neighbor's house. We attempted to talk to the neighbor, but the adults wouldn't answer the door and the little girl wouldn't listen when we tried to tell her there were kittens under her house. So we just assumed we wouldn't ever meet the babies. Then about 4 weeks after they had been born the cat showed up to eat breakfast and there was a kitten on the porch. Then the next day, there was another kitten on the porch. Then the next day another kitten showed up. They were all wild and afraid of us, so we had to wrap them in towels to even hold them without getting scratched. I took them all to the vet because they had nasty, crusty eyes, and got Ghost's shots. She was scheduled to get spayed and we were left to try to tame them.

This is the kittens playing on the porch with Ghost. Whenever we came outside the female baby would run and hide. It took the longest to tame her, but then she became the sweetest of all three.



By this time Shawn ended up being laid off and we were wondering how we would feed this many kittens. So we went to Pets Inc and got the kittens signed up for the weekend program. We would drop them off on Saturday morning and then, if they weren't adopted we would pick them up on Sunday afternoon. They each got collars with their own id number on them. They got the rest of their shots there. This is them all in our dining room waking up because we were taking pictures.



The orange kitten was adopted first, after only 2 or 3 weeks. About a month later the gray boy was adopted. But the little girl was very unhappy whenever she was at Pets Inc and her wonderful personality was never shown. We had her for almost 6 months and kinda got attached to her. We have tons of pictures of her and so we took some of them and made a flier describing her to put on her cage when she went to Pets Inc. The very first day she had the flier she was adopted. They called to tell us she had been taken by an older couple. Someone out there has a very wonderful and sweet lap kitty. This was her sitting on my lap while I was on the computer.



Before we bought our house we ended up rescuing a stray dog. She found our house (after obviously being dumped on the side of the road). We did the exact wrong thing; we fed her. Our land lady lived next door and didn't like the dog staying around. She called the pound, and before they came we got the dog in our truck and took her to my parents house. So she lives right next door to Goldie. We named her Katie because she was a lost dog, and there was a character named Kate on the show Lost. Of course she doesn't know her name and just comes when you call for her or whistle. She is a very energetic dog and it was hard to take her picture. This is her wanting Shawn to pet her.



When she finished eating she finally settled down and posed very nicely. One day we plan on fencing our backyard in and bringing the two dogs over to our house. Until then we just visit them at my mom's whenever we can.