After Chester (our 20 year old cat) died from CRF, Lizzy (17 years old) was really depressed and her health problems started getting worse. She already had hyperthyroidism, CRF, and two tumors in her chest. The cancer then spred to two toes on her left frot paw and she ulitmately had to have them amputated. We thought she was finally in the clear when the cancer spread to her face (and was getting worse extremely quickly), her thyroid started getting high again, and she went into the first stages of renal failure. The vet only gave her about 2 weeks to live (personally, I think it would have been 2 days tops because the cancer was making her face swell and she could hardly breath) so we chose to have her put down quickly & peacefully. 
But after going through Chester's death, we knew that there would be a big hole and we'd end up getting yet another kitten. And since we were already in the process of introducing Tennessee to Emily & Jupiter, we figured we might as well get another cat fairly soon and just go though the whole mess once.
So we went to the shelter just to look and see what they had but we had no intention of bringing a cat home that day. I was also mainly looking at kittens Tennessee's age (12 weeks) so they could play and accept eachother and we would only have to worry about the older cats. I looked at the kittens and none of them were even close to being rambunctious enough to survive Tennessee (along with "demon kitty" she's also known as "hell cat" ). Then I saw an absolutely gorgeous cat and knew he had to come home with me.
He's 1 year old (far cry from 12 weeks), declawed in the front (definitely not my preference), unneutered (5/21 = snip snip), and looks a lot like a purebred turkish van. He had been at the shelter for a while and had been adopted once but they brought him back (said he wasn't good with other cats, but he's unneutered and their female probably didn't appreciate his friskiness
).
They were calling him "Blue" which I though was pretty corny so I renamed him Romeo which is pretty fitting (at least until the 21st
)
-Chelle
But after going through Chester's death, we knew that there would be a big hole and we'd end up getting yet another kitten. And since we were already in the process of introducing Tennessee to Emily & Jupiter, we figured we might as well get another cat fairly soon and just go though the whole mess once.
So we went to the shelter just to look and see what they had but we had no intention of bringing a cat home that day. I was also mainly looking at kittens Tennessee's age (12 weeks) so they could play and accept eachother and we would only have to worry about the older cats. I looked at the kittens and none of them were even close to being rambunctious enough to survive Tennessee (along with "demon kitty" she's also known as "hell cat" ). Then I saw an absolutely gorgeous cat and knew he had to come home with me.
He's 1 year old (far cry from 12 weeks), declawed in the front (definitely not my preference), unneutered (5/21 = snip snip), and looks a lot like a purebred turkish van. He had been at the shelter for a while and had been adopted once but they brought him back (said he wasn't good with other cats, but he's unneutered and their female probably didn't appreciate his friskiness
).They were calling him "Blue" which I though was pretty corny so I renamed him Romeo which is pretty fitting (at least until the 21st
)
-Chelle
It's kind of humorous that the cat that has a lifetime record of four confirmed kills of other cats - and one Cocker Spaniel - that trespassed on her domain; is now thoroughly non-plussed when this little kitten starts spitting at her. "What'd I do? What'd I do?"
Cat.
