I'm not sure how many responses I'll get to this, because it will be a bit involved, but I LOVE watching you all stretch your imaginations! So many of you have such vivid ones! So, I'm going to take the risk, and post this anyway.
Here is your scenario: You are at a shelter, wanting to adopt a cat...or two...or three. You see the one(s) that speaks to your heart. Now, give that cat a look, a personality, a backstory, and a name. Who is your new cat?
Although there are so many sweet cats here, I really want to give a home to a cat or two who might be overlooked. I'm especially interested in seniors. I tell the volunteer that, and her face lights up. She looks at me, and asks forlornly, "You wouldn't consider two, would you?" She shows me a cage where two girls are curled together in the back and tells me their story. They are about 16 years old, and belonged to an elderly lady. Their mama's health became very fragile, and she was no longer able to live on her own. Her family took her in, but were unable or unwilling to extend their home to her cats. They have been at the shelter for almost six months, always passed over due to their age and the fact that they must stay together. The shelter is beginning to despair of ever finding them a home.
Of course I'm interested, and after spending some time with the girls in the visitor's room, I'm quite smitten. One girl is white, and shy, but very sweet. The other is a more outgoing tortie. SO, I fill out their paperwork, and bring my new girls home. I'm not fond of their names...Suzie and Mable...but want to get to know them a bit better before settling on names for them. Once home, their personalities begin to come out. Sue, the white cat, is shy. She loves to curl up in a ball where she can watch everything going on, and be a part of it, but without being in the middle of it all. She moves utterly silently through the house, often startling me. Mable, the tortie, lives up to the reputation of torties. She is a bit bossy, demanding and very, very chatty. She has no problem telling you exactly what she expects! Trying to think of a name for them a few days after they come home, my eye falls on one of my bookcases, and I spot Krista Davis' series, Paws and Claws. Book #2 gives me my new babies' names! They are "Ghost" and "Mrs. Mewer!"
With thanks to both Krista Davis and to the wonderful old movie, "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," where her idea came from.
SO...anyone up for this rather challenging question of the day?
Here is your scenario: You are at a shelter, wanting to adopt a cat...or two...or three. You see the one(s) that speaks to your heart. Now, give that cat a look, a personality, a backstory, and a name. Who is your new cat?
Although there are so many sweet cats here, I really want to give a home to a cat or two who might be overlooked. I'm especially interested in seniors. I tell the volunteer that, and her face lights up. She looks at me, and asks forlornly, "You wouldn't consider two, would you?" She shows me a cage where two girls are curled together in the back and tells me their story. They are about 16 years old, and belonged to an elderly lady. Their mama's health became very fragile, and she was no longer able to live on her own. Her family took her in, but were unable or unwilling to extend their home to her cats. They have been at the shelter for almost six months, always passed over due to their age and the fact that they must stay together. The shelter is beginning to despair of ever finding them a home.
Of course I'm interested, and after spending some time with the girls in the visitor's room, I'm quite smitten. One girl is white, and shy, but very sweet. The other is a more outgoing tortie. SO, I fill out their paperwork, and bring my new girls home. I'm not fond of their names...Suzie and Mable...but want to get to know them a bit better before settling on names for them. Once home, their personalities begin to come out. Sue, the white cat, is shy. She loves to curl up in a ball where she can watch everything going on, and be a part of it, but without being in the middle of it all. She moves utterly silently through the house, often startling me. Mable, the tortie, lives up to the reputation of torties. She is a bit bossy, demanding and very, very chatty. She has no problem telling you exactly what she expects! Trying to think of a name for them a few days after they come home, my eye falls on one of my bookcases, and I spot Krista Davis' series, Paws and Claws. Book #2 gives me my new babies' names! They are "Ghost" and "Mrs. Mewer!"
With thanks to both Krista Davis and to the wonderful old movie, "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," where her idea came from.
SO...anyone up for this rather challenging question of the day?