Happy birthday Muddy and Koko !!

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Today is Muddy's and Koko's (and their brothers Jake and Elwood's) 7th birthday. Even though they were born feral, I saw them within hours of their birth - a very pregnant feral cat showed up at our house one day. I saw her as I left for work 7 years ago today and when I came home, she was nursing a litter of 4 kittens just off my front porch. In spite of the shelter I built around all of them, a predator killed the mom about 10 days later (she probably came out of the shelter to protect her young).

So I brought them inside and hand raised them.




A friend adopted Jake and Elwood when they were 5 weeks old so that she could bond better through bottle feeding them.

Here they are about 8 weeks old:


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They've always been bonded to each other, even as adults. Muddy plays mostly with his sister to this day.



Happy birthday my little babies!!
 

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What beautiful birthday babies! (although I guess officially they aren't babies, huh...today they are officially seniors, aren't they?)
 
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Originally Posted by mrsgreenjeens

What beautiful birthday babies! (although I guess officially they aren't babies, huh...today they are officially seniors, aren't they?)
Don't say that!!! (
) They won't be seniors until they turn 8 next year!!

And they are my babies. They have never been normal cats, seeing that I bottle fed them from 10 days old. Neither one of them really know how to relate to the other cats in the house (thus their bond with each other). Koko pounces on the others thinking that's how cats are supposed to play, and Muddy just avoids them, thinking that they aren't quite human enough for him.
 

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Happy Birthday.So nice to see them in a happy home.

Jeff
 
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