We just got back from taking Jupiter to live with my brother in California. Somewhere along the line we developed a 4 cat rule. There must 4 cats in the house at all times, otherwise it just seems too empty.
So we visited the Sedalia animal shelter (where we got all our other cats) but nothing there really cried out "take me" (well, all of them did, but none really seemed to have enough personality to fit in at our house). So we decided to look at the Warrensburg animal shelter. We'd been there several years ago but weren't impressed with the care of their animals so we normally woudn't even consider them but for some reason we decided to check them out.
We weren't even there for 5 minutes and we'd found the perfect kitty. She started reaching out and attacking me through the door of the cage and threw herself at the door when the worker came up. Apparently she was adopted once but brought back because "she was too wild".
She's about 3 months old and other than being a tiny bit thin and having some serious food aggression (I've never really seen that in cats before), she's in pretty good health.
We named her Scout and so far she's fitting in pretty good. Tennessee took an immediate liking to her and is treating her like a little baby sister. They're actually so much alike it's almost scary. I forsee them getting into lots of trouble together. Romeo is jealous because Tennessee was his best buddy but he'll get over it. And Emily is just hissing and keeping her distance, but she's actually doing better than she did when we introduced Romeo & Tennessee.
-Chelle
So we visited the Sedalia animal shelter (where we got all our other cats) but nothing there really cried out "take me" (well, all of them did, but none really seemed to have enough personality to fit in at our house). So we decided to look at the Warrensburg animal shelter. We'd been there several years ago but weren't impressed with the care of their animals so we normally woudn't even consider them but for some reason we decided to check them out.
We weren't even there for 5 minutes and we'd found the perfect kitty. She started reaching out and attacking me through the door of the cage and threw herself at the door when the worker came up. Apparently she was adopted once but brought back because "she was too wild".
She's about 3 months old and other than being a tiny bit thin and having some serious food aggression (I've never really seen that in cats before), she's in pretty good health.
We named her Scout and so far she's fitting in pretty good. Tennessee took an immediate liking to her and is treating her like a little baby sister. They're actually so much alike it's almost scary. I forsee them getting into lots of trouble together. Romeo is jealous because Tennessee was his best buddy but he'll get over it. And Emily is just hissing and keeping her distance, but she's actually doing better than she did when we introduced Romeo & Tennessee.
-Chelle
I miss my kitties!!!!!
) Patches was considered the meanest, wildest cat on our block. She'd lay out and wait for the local family of mockingbirds to "dive-bomb" her, then catch and eat them. She at the Koi out of our neighbors pond, ran off a couple of other cats, even "killed" a Cocker Spaniel Okay, the dog was 20 and officially died of heart failure after Patches rode him (on his back) back to his house; at least he wasn't leaving little doggie land-mines on the neighborhood yards anymore, and the owners kept his replacement in their own yard! 
