Smoggy's Friends: Milly, Polly, Cocoa, Boots & Randi [5]

Catherine says: I began fostering kittens for the Lort Smith Animal Hospital Melbourne, Australia, in 2007, about a year after my beloved Smoggy passed away at almost 18 years of age. No kitty could ever replace him, so I thought fostering little ones in honor of Smoggy would be a better way to make a difference... saving lives one kitten at a time.

After returning my fourth foster, a grown-up boy named Sir Purrsalot, to be adopted out (he was!), my fifth foster litter arrived. One minute there's no kittens… the next, there's five! Another little batch of lovelies -- two ginger boys and three blackish girls. The girls were needing eye treatments and antibiotics right away. I was a little worried about having another large litter… could I do it? But these guys were all very happy and social so it ended up being a breeze.

Milly was the smallest of the five and I didn't understand how because all she did was eat since from the time she arrived! With a spring in her tail and boundless energy, she was absolutely always first at the dinner bowl come feeding time. She was a cutie and loved being touched. Randi was very curious, inquisitive and maybe some would say skeptical so we named him after James Randi, the famous American skeptic. He was a real character, the purrrfect all-round kitty, sweet and loving when it was time for snuggles and a bundle of energy through the day when enjoying life as a kitten. Polly was a big bundle of fur and was a very happy little girl who loved snuggling with her sisters. She also started to enjoy being a lap kitty and loved having her fur stroked and brushed. Then there was Boots. From the moment Boots looked at us… those eyes!!! I think he was used to model Puss in Boots from the Shrek 2 movie, hence the name Boots. And Cocoa... a little fluffy rocket. She had the best little fluffy, furry coat. It was like a mink jacket, the dark fur with flecks of longer white fur and then areas of grey… so glamourous and adorable. :D

All five of these beauties were quickly adopted. Yippee!! If this process has taught me anything it is that every kitty is an individual. No point pigeonholing a colour or a sex or long/short hairs (although they might like being in that pigeon hole waiting for the pigeon)… they are all simply gorgeous in their own way.

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