My sweetheart boy Lucky - at 2 relaxes on the couch circa 1999. He got quite big for a stray at 15 lbs (never fat) loved to bite and swat at hands, and would run into walls chasing flies or imaginary ones. If there is a rainbow bridge, it will be one happy reunion someday, but i think he is off getting into other adventures...
Like many breeders I have a story of how I got in this dire predictament- I had cats my entire childhood and loved cats, but developed an allergy to them. 10 years ago I was driving home from work and saw a scraggly little kitten at the side of the road attempting to cross it, but being very uncertain. There were a bunch of kids and a father in a yard right there, playing ball. I stopped to avoid the kitten, and pick it up and give it to the Dad. When he said it wasn't theirs I decided to "catch" it and proceeded to get bit and scratched up when I did. Long story short, the vet said despite the horrible condition he appeared in there was only one practical way to know if it had rabies.... He was half blind, often walked into walls and swatted at imaginary flies. I loved him so much. He had health problems and passed at 4 suddenly, a clot, as a big cat possibly HCM, who knows. By that time he had company in the house and I had worked through most of my allergies. (We have 9 cats in the house now, and they mostly reside on our "fur"niture.)
Like many breeders I have a story of how I got in this dire predictament- I had cats my entire childhood and loved cats, but developed an allergy to them. 10 years ago I was driving home from work and saw a scraggly little kitten at the side of the road attempting to cross it, but being very uncertain. There were a bunch of kids and a father in a yard right there, playing ball. I stopped to avoid the kitten, and pick it up and give it to the Dad. When he said it wasn't theirs I decided to "catch" it and proceeded to get bit and scratched up when I did. Long story short, the vet said despite the horrible condition he appeared in there was only one practical way to know if it had rabies.... He was half blind, often walked into walls and swatted at imaginary flies. I loved him so much. He had health problems and passed at 4 suddenly, a clot, as a big cat possibly HCM, who knows. By that time he had company in the house and I had worked through most of my allergies. (We have 9 cats in the house now, and they mostly reside on our "fur"niture.)
