New Creation

OK, I admit I am stealing this from my friend Jen, but I thought I would introduce our kids. We are the proud parents of two of the most loving cats I have ever owned: Hobbes our big fat orange tabby and Boo our tiny little black kitty.

Hobbes is our shelter kitty. We got him about a month after we got married. He was two years old when we adopted him, so he is/will be six years old. From the moment they pulled him from the cage and put him in Kevin's arms, we knew that he was the kitty we were taking home. (Tough luck to the woman who came to see him just after we got to meet him, since we were there first, we got first dibs). He is our (not so) little purr bucket. Pick him up and he purrs, pet him and he purrs, let him sit on your lap and well you get the idea. His name at the pound was Winston, but we had a hard time getting right (we always started to say Watson), so we had to change the name. Since Kevin growing up was a "Calvin" naturally we had to change his name to Hobbes.

Boo is our stray. He was found stuck in the bushes at my work. Trapped and scared I knew the minute I saw him that I had to take him home. We pulled him out and I took him back to my office were he stayed in a box part of the time and on me most of the time. He was one pound and most of that was flies. The vet estimated he was about a month old. He is named Boo because we found him a few days before Halloween. He did give us a scare the first weekend we had him: he got unsteady on his feet. We took him back to the vet and it turns out he was literally being eaten alive by the fleas. The doctor got the proper dosage of Advantage for his age/size and he was a brand new kitty. For a cat that was feral, he has become a very loving and attached cat. While he does exhibit some wild cat traits, he is very attached to us and always wants to be near us (or on our laps). His purrs are much quieter than Hobbes', but you can feel them when he is on your lap.