The Kitters and Squeak

I’ve been wanting to make chicken and noodles for about a week now.  Things have just come up to where it never happens.  Well, I was determined to make them Thursday night.  Well, needless to say, our chicken was thawed incorrectly – and we didn’t want take the chance of eating it if it was smothered in bacteria.  So, somehow, it got left in the sink over night. I got up early this morning to thaw our NEW chicken…once in the kitchen, there it was. The old chicken (that had been left in the sink when we went to bed) was now on the floor!!  The cats had ripped into it and looks like they both probably got a good size bite!  It’s absolutely amazing to me the amount of mischief they can get into during the 6-7 hours a night we’re sleeping.

We definitely have our hands full when they’re inside together, but they’re so much fun…just wanted to post some pictures.

I guess I could include a little history of our cats.  The Kitters – who was originally named “Cat,” Dave found at his apartment on Ridgewood when he still lived in town. This was long before I was ever in the picture.  His side of the duplex was the northern most in the complex, and was basically on the VERY north edge of town. So someone probably dumped him – who didn’t want him – and Dave took him in.  He said that “Cat” would climb up on his roof and hang out. Kind of funny. But Dave got attached, and brought him to live in the country when he moved to our house where we live now.  When we recently had small group here, the kids kept calling him Garfield!

Squeak came to our house out of tragedy. We were headed to church on the morning of our one year anniversary, and we saw our other cat, Grayson, in the road. He’d been hit by a car and didn’t make it.  I’ll put up a picture of our sweet kitty Grayson.

We decided that we needed to fill that void pretty quick, so we headed to Wichita to the animal shelter! After looking there, we hadn’t found the perfect cat yet. Dave told me that he’d always wanted a black & white kitty, so I didn’t want to give up until we found one.  Next, we headed to PetSmart where, there she was!!  Sitting next to her sister “Serena,” there was our kitty. She had the prettiest face.

So we brought her home a week after we’d lost our G-buddy. So she’s been a Clark now for almost three months, and she’s so fun! After we brought her home, she started showing real sickness symptoms. She was sneezing ALL the time, had no energy, had wet eyes. So we took her to the vet where they said she had an upper respiratory infection – which they also said is common in kittens that come from a shelter environment.  So we nursed her back to health – and before you knew it, she was a spunky kitten again!

(We didn’t pose them like this, they did this on their own. They’re buddies!)

 

They like to wrestle too!