My Kitty

Can't believe it, but we have a new furry family member - Winkey the kitty.


Our lives crossed late summer, Winkey, his three siblings and their mamma appeared one day on our back porch and hadn't left the neighborhood since. Between the neighbors and us, this family of cats was pretty well taken care of. Life was good.

But come the deep freeze in January, Winkey was sitting on the back porch and I knew something was wrong, with his eye especially. His eye looked like he was winking at us, and almost crusted shut. Shivering and sad looking, I scooped him up and off the the vet we went. A couple hundred dollars later, Winkey was very sick, but on the way home with me to have two weeks worth of antibiotics, eye drops, dewormer - the works. I really didn't want another house cat (we already have 2) and was determined to fix him up and let him back outside to live a happy cat life.


Turns out, he's a pretty great cat. He's the runt of the litter, so he's small and cute. He lets Josie drag him around (although the picture he looks rather annoyed ;)), squeeze him and pet him freely. Josie quickly picked up on Winkey being "her kitty" and thus the end of the story - he's now ours, especially after all the money I spent on him!


I think he knows how lucky he is to have a nice warm spot in our house, and just goes with the flow. It's fun having a kitten around again - so much more playful and interactive than our big chubby duo Emmie and Ernie. To say they're all getting along blissfully would be a lie - they been co-mingling for about 4 days and Emmie is still hissing and giving him a hard time. She's even mad at Ernie, go figure ;)


... and I still can't believe we now have 3 catttts. No no no ;) I give in, it's a big house, it'll be juuuust fine.