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A little about my pets....
I've had LOTS of pets over the years. My first was a cat named
"Kitty." Hey, I was only 11! She was a sweet kitty.
Then after I got married and moved to Japan, we got a dog that we named
"Hashi," which means "chopsticks" in Japanese.
After we got back to the states, we got another dog, an AKC registered
Siberian Husky that we named "Kiana Tanana Galena." She and Hashi
didn't get along very well. Kiana, "Kiki," ended up having
six puppies by some cad that somehow got into my fenced in yard. I was
divorced by this time, and I kept one of her boys that we named
"Mo," because when he was little, he had a white stripe down his
head that looked like a mowhawk. Then Hashi, then 13, developed cancer,
and we had to put her down. Later, an adorable, little puppy got stuck
in a neighbor's back yard who didn't want a puppy, so I took him home and he
became known as "Zeus." Zeus and Mo together were terrors!
Unfortunately, I had to give them up, since a neighbor claimed they beat up
his adult, male rottweiler. Sure, mine had no scratches or bite marks or
anything, and his dog, that was 3 times as big as either of mine was
"attacked."
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While I
had 2 dogs, I brought home my cat, Sammy. Some pictures of her, and my other
2 cats can been seen at my pics page. Sammy's now 9 and is pleasingly
plump. She has such a soft, squeaky meow for such a big kitty. A month
after I got Sammy, I brought Smelly Cat home. I picked him up in Florida, when he was
only 4 weeks old. We were about 1 mile down the road, when he... uh, well, he
earned his name! He messed himself and stunk up the car! So I brought him
back to my step-sister's for a quick bath, and while she was holding him up,
my (then) brother-in-law said, "That's really a smelly cat."
I watched the TV show "Friends" and that was about the time
Pheobe's "hit" song, "Smelly Cat" was popular. I
tried thinking up other names for him, but nothing seemed as appropriate.
Smelly is a Japanese Bobtail. He has diabetes, and I have to
give him an insulin shot twice a day. I noticed he was drinking for a long
time, and then peeing for a long time. Then I noticed he looked real
skinny, so I brought him into the vet's office. He had lost 3 pounds!
He seems to be doing lots better now that he's on insulin.
About a year or so after I got Smelly, I saw an adorable, fluffy orange
kitty in the pet store that was being adopted out from a shelter, so I
carried her around the store for a little while, and decided to take her
home. "Chrissie" has become a HUGE kitty! She's a Maine
Coon. She's my cuddliest cat; always crawling up on my lap and falling
asleep. In the colder months, she'll crawl under my blankets and cuddle up
with me and fall asleep. She really loves back rubs. I entered
her in a Garfield
look-alike contest, but she was robbed!
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