On sofa, first few days home. Tallas, is what we most often called her. She was given to me by a previous employer as my Christmas bonus one year. My employer said, “You have rescued so many, you deserve to have your one dream cat” knowing I would never buy an animal. But you see, […]
Muses
Sunflower
Looking fancy and cute on her red blanket. Sunny is what we often called her; one of the names that was considered for Maple, before we decided we couldn’t let anyone else have her. We didn’t love that they wanted to name Maple, Sunny so that gave us just the little push we needed. But […]
Grant
Professional photo shoot! So glad we did this before we lost him. Grant Parkus Malarkus is what we called him. Oh, he was a wild one! Grant found us. The day after Thanksgiving one year (1999, I believe), Jake took Maple for a walk. He was cruisin’ up Grant Street when this black and tan […]
Mr. Wallace (OG-Wally)
Wallace looking terrified during the professional photo shoot. Mr. Wallace came to us under some pretty challenging circumstances. This story is a delicate one to tell. I will start by saying that not everyone in this profession is capable of rescuing and managing a lot of cats/animals. I sit here and share all of these […]
Charcoal
Charcoal was a beefy, thick unneutered male. He had those giant, hammerhead shark, intact male cheeks and was very well muscled throughout his body. I called him the “Pitbull of cats” because he was so muscular. He likely spent his days perusing the countryside wooing the lady kitties and then found himself caught and thrown […]
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