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Apr 26, 2012
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Get a couple more, and they can start a band!

LOL we already have two cats inside, so I'm already there. LOL
Years ago, when the wife and I first got married we had got some kittens, and I named them Nibi after Bill Ward (Black Sabbath) as his nickname was Nibi as the band thought his beard looked like a pen nib. The other was named Ozzy, named after my favorite artist, as he had a type of palsy that made him shake a little bit when he walked, so I thought that was a fitting name. They were the original "Metal Kitties." LOL
 

Butter Side Down

Can't Leave
Jun 2, 2023
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3,912
Chicago
This is Tan (temporary name).

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He was part of the feral colony that my wife has been feeding. They're all named after the villains from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe. His original name was Spike because he showed up with a sickly but charming bone skinny black cat we called Drusilla. It quickly became apparent that he was not feral. Too friendly, no fear of humans, very little street smarts, and he kept trying to get into the house. So we took him to the vet and had him checked out. No chip, but amazingly, he doesn't have feline lukemia, FIV, or ear mites. But he's also ten years old, so he probably would not get adopted if we took him to a shelter. So he's ours now.
 

MisterBadger

Lifer
Oct 6, 2024
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9,891
Ludlow, UK
I've lived with cats all my life, and can only remember one who actually liked the smell of tobacco: his name was Big Ted, a huge black shaggy brute you could mistake for a guardsman's bearskin helmet until he opened his eyes to stare at you. I met Big Ted at a cats' rescue shelter where Mrs. B. and I were visiting with a view to homing a couple of new refugee kits - and Big Ted, himself a rescue cat and adopted by the folks who ran the cat shelter - ran up to me and greeted me like a long-lost friend. He couldn't get enough of me. This puzzled the proprietors, until one of them remembered that they had homed him, a year or so back, from an old chap (deceased) who lived on his own with Big Ted, and who smoked a particular kind of dark shag Virginia - the same brand I habitually smoked at the time. But Big Ted wasn't available for adoption, so we came away with a couple of others.

Here are Messire Pierrequin de Warbecq, and Warrior Princess Cassisurata Amberfire Ravenfur Snowclaws. Sadly we lost Perk to illness a couple of years ago, and Cassie followed him after a severe stroke, this April. We are currently a catless house for the first time in 15 years, and it feels terribly empty and wrong (but we shall be adopting again later this autumn when work at the farm slackens). Meanwhile, in the stables doorway, staring out at the farmyard whilst sheltering with me from the rain, is the last survivor of a litter of orphans dumped anonymously in a basket at the farm 20 years ago, a typical semi-feral farm mouser who rejoices in the appellation of Miss Euphemia Beguildy. She's companionable, in her stiff, maiden-aunty, stand-offish way, but merely tolerates me smoking in her presence.
 

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