"I've had an interesting morning. In the last two hours I've lost my job, my apartment, my car, and my girlfriend." - John Winger, "Stripes"
Our cat Tiny has passed slightly beyond the age of kitten, but this doesn’t seem to prevent her from behaving in a fashion reminiscent of a two-year old child. I have tried in vain to break her from getting up onto counters and tables, but now even these obstacles are not enough of a challenge for her. She has found new mountains to climb in this jungle gym that I call a house. Read the rest of this entry »
On Saturday night, Ashleigh came home with her friends, and like any teenager worthy of the title, forgot to close the garage door. This wasn’t really that big of a deal. We live in a relatively safe neighborhood so no one stole our cars. Read the rest of this entry »
Tiny is one of the most incredible and unique cats I’ve ever had the pleasure to own. She was born on Sept. 9, 2005 and was named Anakin Beard by her foster parents. This adorable kitten came into my life when I was shopping for kittens to give to Ashleigh for Christmas. She was in a tiny cage with her two siblings at the SICSA animal shelter. Although she was soundly sleeping, I asked if I could remove her from the cage. Immediately, she passed my first criteria of a perfect cat by beginning to purr.
Next, I set her atop an eye-level cat tower to look her over and see how she responded to me. She quietly stared at me and then took her paw and gently removed my glasses from my face. That did it – I had to have her! Read the rest of this entry »
Baby was given to me by my ex-wife Lisa for my birthday in 1998. She was about eight weeks old at the time so this makes her birthday roughly Aug. 2, 1998. Her real name is actually “Babe,” named after Oliver “Babe” Hardy, but we’ve always called her Baby for short, despite having more syllables. Lisa and I were not actually married yet and were still living at the Peppertree Apartments in Fairborn. Although, we had been making plans to build a house elsewhere in Fairborn, it was still nearly a year before we would be moving.
I loved Baby. She was one of the friendliest, sweetest kittens you could hope for. But I did question why Lisa gave her to me at this time since our apartment complex didn’t allow pets. In fact, we had given up our other cat Stymie so we could move into these apartments! But nevertheless, we kept Baby in our apartment with only one landlord incident. Read the rest of this entry »