Word to Your Mother: January 2021

If you know Mom, you know she loved cats.

Mom with Willamina, shortened to Willie (as in Nelson), back in the day. To know what inspired the name Willamina, check out this video on YouTube...

W is for Willamina

But I digress...

For the past couple years Joseph has begged us to get a cat.

My answer: We are still mastering taking care of ourselves, we are not ready to take care of something else.

Mike's answer: I don't like the smell of a litter box. I don't want my house smelling like a litter box.

This past June 2020, Mike was surfing around Facebook and came across this ad from The Feral Cat Rescue of Southern Maryland...

and asked if I thought we should go look at them. We both agreed these guys may be a healthy addition to our isolated family. The foster mom Suzanne is a friend of the family and lives up the hill from us so it was easy to coordinate a face-to-face.

Need I say more?

We brought Ziggy and Buzz home around June 25, 2020 and they have been bringing us laughter and joy ever since.

wee lil Buzz (pink nose)

sweet Boi Ziggy (grey on nose)

The Boiz loved to be together and were usually up to some sort of shenanigans.

As the Boiz continued to get bigger, Ziggy loved to sleep most the day with Buzz wandering around meowing, looking for someone to play with him.

One evening in December, scrolling through social media, I came across this fella.

After some investigation, we learned that this is a bro of our Boiz. He was rescued from under the same trailer a few months after Zig and Buzz, was fostered, adopted, returned to foster family because he was too rambunctious for the older cat in the adoptive family and he was on his way to Petco to see if he would get adopted during the Feral Cat Saviors' adoption event the next day. We said if no one adopted him, we would try him out.

Sabo at Petco that day

Sabo didn't like Petco that day

Suzanne brought him directly from Petco that day to our house. Mike was out and about that Sunday...here's how he got the news that we were adopting Sabo...

We took a chance, taking in a Boi who had been on the streets for 2 months, in and out of foster care, with the reputation of being, well for lack of a better term, a badass.

Pros: He was the bro of our Boiz, we couldn't let him be out there somewhere, he needed to be with his family.

Cons: 2 cats is, well 2 cats. 3 cats makes us CAT PEOPLE.

We bit the bullet. We became CAT PEOPLE for the sake of Sabo's fate. We have cat hair on our clothes but our house does NOT smell like a litter box. (This post brought to you by Glade Plugins...plug it in, plug it in People.)

It took a very short time for Sabo to settle in. His rambunctiousness is a great match for Buzz's activity level and Ziggy can continue to be a sleepy-doo all day.