Marla from Michigan

Greetings to everyone! So, yeah. My name is Marla; an eighteen-year-old lover of kitties. I adopted my cat, Amburlee, from a neighbor’s house when I was ten…which is funny since I’m the one who found Ambur’s mother and gave her to my neighbors just a year before. As a small child I had begged my mother for a kitten and she told me that I could have one…when I was ten….and she kept her word. Ambur is eight years old now and because my father had custody over my siblings and I back in the day, well, I never got to see Ambur grow up. By the time I lived with my mother again, my ‘kitten’ was definitely already a cat. Therefore, now that I am an adult I have taken on the responsibility of a new kitten; Piper Maru.

Ambur is a tabby cat who’s name is so random that I cannot for the life of me understand why I chose it. Sure, it’s a pretty name…but I never understood the odd spelling. Oh well. She is overweight, but we’ve recently switched foods on her to keep her size down to a healthier one. She’s pretty much everyone’s cat…not very attached to me at all. She’s grumpy and loves to say ‘noooooooooo’. We do have an older cat; Mittens who she adores. Oh, and Huey, who is my sisters’ plus Q who is a young kitten belonging to my little brother. Five cats. Yes. That’s five cats now.

Piper Maru who I usually shorten to just ‘Piper’ is extremely fluffy. Most of her looks like a fluffy Ambur, but her belly is white. I’ve only had her with me for less than a week…but she’s slept on my head every night so far. I adore her. She was named after Gillian Anderson (actress and a hero of mine because of her role on The X-Files and her great acting ability in general)’s daughter in ‘real life’. Creepy of me, eh?

I look forward to becoming a part of this community!