This is Muffin. She showed up one early spring and tore my heart strings and I have never looked back on my decision to take her in and give her a home. She was one of a litter that was abandoned at my neighbors house, left in a box to be found by the woman who lives there and works for the humane society. She and at least one other escaped.
This was in 2006, probably around late Feb - early March. I think it was a Sunday. My younger sister was outside (doing I have not a clue what).. and she came into the house somewhat in a hurry to tell us that a kitten was following her around the yard. I think she was worried about it maybe being diseased, she seemed hesitant to let it approach her. I went outside right away and the kitten was already on the front step of our house. She wasn't quite a kitten, already a few months old but very malnourished. Her head looked way too big for her body and her little bones were sticking out everywhere through thin skin. She started rolling around on the cement slab and purring very loudly as soon as I went out. I pet her of course and that was all it took for me to fall in love. I brought her in the house and put some towels into a cat carrier which she happily settled into. She didn't eat at first and that worried me because she was so skinny.
The very next day we took her to the vet and had her treated for an severe upper respiratory infection, kitty herpes, and some other things that I don't remember. The vet told us that she was almost 5 months old, even though she didnt look any older than 3. He also told us that she would have surely died another night out in the cold. At the time I was in highschool and didn't go in. My mom didn't want her to be around the other cats so I kept her in my room or in the cat box all the time and never left her side. I slept with her at night and she snuggled right up against me with her head on my neck, wheezing loudly in my ear.
She was instantly part of the family and nothing anyone said could get me to let her go. My mom tried to get me to give her to my new bfs family since they only had one cat and we at the time had 3 already. His dad choose instead to buy a new one for his family, I felt really sour about that, but now Im glad I got to keep Muffin, I wouldnt want anyone else to have her.
For the first few weeks she didnt have a name, it was really hard to choose one for her because her personality was so individual. She is like a tomboy, she is extremely curious and loves to people work, like sewing, hooking up electronics, rearranging rooms, anything shes right there trying to figure it all out. She is also somewhat a whimp because she gets mad easily when she is teased and will hiss and growl if you pet her the wrong way a couple times. She is an instigator, trouble maker, football shaped 'Miss Priss' who loves to play and still sleeps on my pillow every single night no matter how little room there may be. She plays fetch with a leash that I used to walk her on, and demands attention by meowing or crawling right up on my chest almost any time she gets the chance. She also loves the camera, the bass from my stereo, and my Trouble by Boucheron perfume, which she licks up wherever I spray it, or will lick the bottle directly if I let her.
Sometimes I let her outside and she is such a good girl. She comes when she is called, and never goes far to begin with. She just wags her tail a lot and looks so beautiful with the green grass making her green eyes stand out more, and her orange markings more noticeable by contrast. She dose all the typical cat stuff like chases butterflies and grasshoppers, rolls in the dust, and runs sporadically. Lately, since it is winter, she has been stuck in my room all the time ( I have a very large basement room with ground level windows).. I cant wait to get my own place so I can let her experience stairs again, and sun coming in larger windows, being able to follow me all over the house the way she used to before we got a dog. I miss her when I go out and she is my most prized possession.
She also LOVES kitty 'kisses' and headbutts. She is extremely affectionate.
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