The other three cats where siblings: Linus, Lucy and Barney. We lost
Linus to kidney failure and old age about 2 years ago. Lucy and Barney
are around 16 now and doing well. Barney thinks food is the only thing
in life so he is overeweight. He doesn't seem to gain or loose just is
very plump. Lucy is thin but has always been a happy cat. She lost all
her teeth a few years ago but it is amazing that they adapt. These 3
cats where part of a litter of 4. Their Mom, we think, followed our
orange tabby cat named Odie home one day. She was in love with that
cat! Well she was pregnant at the time and wild. She only had three and
half legs. She was missing from like your elbow to paw of her front
right leg. After the kittens where born, we had her fixed and found out
that she was born with this disability. So we decided to keep her since
we felt she had survived this long, about 8 years, why not give her a
home. Of course since we are softies, we kept the kittens. They all
came out with normal legs. But since she was wild, they were to. This
made health care difficult. We did not realize that Lucy had bad teeth
'cause we couldn't get close. It took time... years to get to the point
of trust. At one time we had 7 cats!!! But they all got along and lived
great lives. Odie lived till 17... he is another story. I have thought
of writing a book on our cats. There is just fun stories. Do you have
many cats?

When we lost Zwinkie in May 2002 due to kidney disease our Blacky
(then about 6 years old) was alone. So end of June we adopted two
little tomcats (Flori and Merlin, litter mates), aged 8 weeks then.
After integration - about 2 month later - Blacky came home with a live
mouse to show it to the little brats (He is not a great mouse catcher
otherwise). Wow, THAT was a new game to them! Especially Flori took on
the game of mouse catching. At one overnight foray he brought us back
3 mice. Unfortunately he disappeared in October and from what we could
find out we concluded, he had been run over at the main road (which is
quite a bit away, so we didn't thought, that Flori would roam that
far).

Squarely Yours
Michael

Luthien the Elder told me don't be fooled, Bob was just showing off!!
He wanted to let those little kitties know who de cat, who de cat.  And
when he gave them old moley....they all said:
"yoo de cat, yoo de cat".  And then they all knew who was master.

Meanwhile, Luthien has been demonstrating once again, that you *can*
teach an old d*g new trix (oops i'm getting the evil eye for that one)
here in our Event Horizon.  We got a new rescue baby Glorio from the
vet last week...first new cat in this house in 13 years (Luthien's
elder age) and we never thought she would tolerate it, but she
continues to wow us.  And Glorio is a pouncer and he has no fear.  She
cuffs him around the head and swears like a pirate, but he's off pretty
fast, and sneaking up behind her for more.  And yet, for all that, they
eat together, after only one week.  We are sure that Luthien has been
sorely missing her big sister who died two years ago, which is the only
reason we can see for her to put up with this little punk.  All we
hyooomaaaans in the house are dying of cuteness overdose, meanwhile
Luthien just rolls her eyes.

--tension