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August 18, 2005
...bring your pet to blog...
Those wonderful girls over at port2port started this little group - bring your pet to blog.
The Boy and I are relatively new pet owners. You could say we adopted her. Or even better she found us.
Basically on a stormy snowing day (ah the snow - coolness - sweaters - I don't even love the winters, but the idea of not always being sweaty seems so far away!) back in March someone left a box in the outer lobby of our old building. (In the city you have two doors to get into the building. Usually the first set of doors is open to everyone and it is where the mailboxes are, and then you have a key to the next door to let you securely into the building)
Taped inside that box was two - TWO kittens!
How could they dare!
When I came home that evening they were in our lobby just sort of chilling. I only saw one of the kittens and thought someone had accidentally let her out. So, I brought her up to our apartment and the Boy said the super had someone picking them up soon. So I though all right and brought the little one back downstairs even though it killed me. That was one cute kitten, but it wasn't Trixie.
The next day as I left I looked around for the kittens and they were gone and I was glad that someone came to take them. Around noon the Boy called and said we were the proud owners of a new kitten. I guess the super's friend never came, but people did like I did and took the kittens into their apartments. One lady had taken in the Trixie, but couldn't keep her, and the Boy had told himself that if he saw any of the kittens he would take them in. (I was pretty destroyed the night before - I could not fathom taping up a box of kittens and just leaving it in some building! I was pretty much a mess of tears the whole night. I even went to take the trash down to see if they were gone a couple of hours later and they were, so I figured they had been picked up.)
He called me because we had no pet stores near by and we need supplies. Food, litter, litter box, food bowl, and some toys...so Sarah let me go early and I went and bought a gaggle of stuff for the new kitten.
Now Trixie is amazing. You can just be NEAR her and she purrs like crazy. She is very polite and wouldn't go up on the bed or couch until she got invited, once she is invited she'll come up when you ask (or when she is taking a nap). I love her! So again with no further ado this is Trixie in the morning peering up:
Posted by wendy at August 18, 2005 10:32 AM
Comments
I should first say that I usually hate those pictures of cute cats that I always see on blogs. Having said that, yours is the best photo I've seen. Such eyes and so cute! You're gonna make me a kitty lover.
Posted by: Neil at August 18, 2005 02:59 PM
Aw! So cute! Our landlord says no pets, and besides, my husband is allergic, but if we could have pets we'd figure a way around the allergies. I can't believe someone would leave a box of kittens in a random building... so sad. I'm glad they both found good homes!
Found your site via http://www.beautyjoyfood.com/, I'm always happy to read the blogs of folks in NYC! And Fat Witch brownies, yum. Whenever we're in Chelsea Market, I cannot resist them!
Posted by: Samantha at August 18, 2005 03:47 PM
what a great story... making me think i should tell the story of all ours! ;) we have 5... pets that is... but trixie looks and sounds like a doll... yay for pets!
Posted by: lisa s at August 18, 2005 05:02 PM
i love this!! charlie and his sisters were left in a taped up box too! how wonderful that you have Trixie. she looks really beautiful.
and sorry i missed ya as a link. i just added it in....
can't wait to see more of old Trix!
be well, mav
Posted by: maria at August 19, 2005 12:32 PM