“How did you get your kids?”
My mom and I adopted my Noodle (DOB 2001ish) from the vet we were going to at the time. She’d been living outside in the yard at an care home for men with late stage AIDS in Seattle, when the owner decided to sell the house. He evicted everyone who was living there, and was going to just abandon Noodle. Not a very nice guy. One of the men who lived there decided that his final legacy would be to make sure that Noodle got a good home. He brought her in to the shelter, and from there she made her way up to our vet. She reminded my mom and I of two different much loved childhood cats, and we adopted her. She ended up, of course, being nothing like either of those cats, but her own wonderful, sassy self.
I adopted Leeloo (born Julyish 2017) at about 4 months old from Seattle Humane after she came in to the emergency vet hospital with a broken leg and head trauma. Animal Control had picked her up from the homeless person who was caring for her and brought her into a local emergency veterinary hospital. My friend works there, and it all started with a text: “We’ve got a little broken kitten in. Want to see a pic?” He knew I wasn’t looking for another cat so soon after my Noodle’s death, but he also knew how desperately I needed someone. He said he thought she was the right cat for me, and boy was he ever right. Fearless and jam packed with energy, my little furry maniac is down for anything, from learning new tricks to outdoor adventuring, with a large helping of ‘breaking Mom’s stuff’ in between.
In April 2018, I was finally able to adopt a brother for Leeloo. I had a new job where I was making a little more money, so I had just started casually looking, and I saw Sieh. A woman in a facebook group posted about an adoptable former feral on behalf of her friend who feeds and TNRs feral colonies in Virginia. I don’t know what it was, but somehow I knew he would be the perfect fit. He was so shy at first, spending most of the first week under the couch and bed. In his first 12 hours with me, he rode in a car, two airplanes, on the light rail, and on a bus! Having lived in a home with many rescue cats in the process of getting homes, Sieh has FANTASTIC cat social skills, and he even proved to be the mediating force between Leeloo and my mom’s cat, Dewey (she ADORES him, he was TERRIFIED of her. Made for awkward visits.) Now he’s my sweet, adventurous snuggle boy, and he’s showing me more and more of his clown routine every day.
Adopt, don’t shop!
Camp Like Noodle 