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| Don't let that innocent face fool you. I guarantee she is plotting something... |
I figured it was
time for an update on Luna, the kitty I adopted back in March. The short
version is this: she’s happy, healthy…and driving me crazy. The long version is
a bit more complicated, but mostly she is doing well. Mystic the gigantic
gray boy is still going after her, alas, but she is figuring out some high
spots where he can’t reach her, and has made friends with yellow boy Angus, who
at eight years old is the next youngest and still very much a kitten at heart.
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| Angus and Luna playing. |
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| I've had to buy a lot of new cat toys. |
The vet finally
decided, back in March, that she was about six months old, which would mean she
is about seven months and a half months old now. Still very kittenish and full
of beans. Just like my author friend’s cat Miss Paddington, also known as
Paddy.
In fact, the two
kitties look so much alike, they might be twins. (And yes, they’re BOTH still
wide-eyed and full of mischief.)
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| That's Paddy on the left and Luna on the right. See what I mean! |
Karen Rose Smith and I actually “met” through our mutual love of cats. I commented on a blog
post she wrote about one of her rescue cats, and talked about how all mine were
rescues too. She invited me to write a guest post about my cats, and so a
beautiful friendship was born. We live in different states, so we haven’t met
in person, but we’ve been there for each other when dealing with cat issues—she
called me when she was worried about Halo, Paddy’s mom (Karen had never been
present at a kitty delivery before, and I’d been a cat midwife a number of
times), and I called her when I was bereft at the loss of Samhain right after
Christmas (since she’d been through the same thing not that long before with
one of her favorites).
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| Karen Rose Smith and Paddy |
So it is kind of
ironic that Paddy, the child of the cat she rescued last summer, and Luna, who
I rescued this winter after she was found in a snow bank and put up for
adoption by the vet who saved her life, look like mirror images of each other.
In fact, we’ve had
so much fun with all our cat chat on Facebook, we ended up starting a Cat-Crazy
Book-Lovers page HERE with two other cat-loving authors. The page is dedicated to
people who love both cats and books, and apparently there are a lot of us out
there! Every week one of the authors takes a turn doing a kitty (and sometimes
book) related giveaway, and we are having a blast. If you're on Facebook, drop by and see us.
In the meanwhile,
Luna is growing fast. She was tiny when I got her, only four and a half pounds.
I haven’t taken her back to get weighed, but I’m pretty sure she’s gained
weight. She has a long body and long legs, and even so is still much smaller
than the other cats. It’s hard to say how big she is going to be when she
finally stops growing, but I can say for certain that she gets prettier every
day. Just like her twin, Miss Paddy.
Karen was talking
about us on her blog today too. Go check it out if you have a minute. Karen's blog
So, anyone else have a cat who has a twin?
