Rick Potter
09-19-2009, 2:44 AM
Remember the old one about the ad for a lost dog:
LOST...dog, castrated, blind in one eye, missing one leg, answers to the name Lucky.
Well, my daughter and her kids live with us, and she got a kitten from her sister. It was the runt of the litter, and has a tail shaped like a 7. Soon after getting it, two of the kittens siblings, and the mother died. When it was a couple months old he had his front claws removed, and was neutered.
A month after that there was a thunder/lightning storm in Phoenix where my daughter was staying for a month or so. She had the kitten in her arms, and opened the door to watch...exactly when lightning hit nearby with a big clap of thunder. The kitten rocketed out of her arms, and fell to the sidewalk, breaking it's front leg.
After about four weeks of having the leg in a cast, it was finally removed last week. The next day, the daughter turned on the vacuum cleaner, and the cat launched himself off the bed breaking his rear leg. After a couple days of kitty ER, the vet took the leg off, saying it would never heal. He says there is nothing wrong with the kittens bones, it was just a bad break (pun intended).
So.....here we are with an orphaned, accident prone cat, that can't seem to land on his feet, who is castrated, declawed, limping on a front leg, missing a rear leg, and has a tail that could open a padlock.
The kittens name is Koshka, supposed to be Russian for cat, and he is a Siberian. I swear, if he gets an eye patch, I am changing his name to Lucky.
Did I mention I am a dog person?
Rick Potter
LOST...dog, castrated, blind in one eye, missing one leg, answers to the name Lucky.
Well, my daughter and her kids live with us, and she got a kitten from her sister. It was the runt of the litter, and has a tail shaped like a 7. Soon after getting it, two of the kittens siblings, and the mother died. When it was a couple months old he had his front claws removed, and was neutered.
A month after that there was a thunder/lightning storm in Phoenix where my daughter was staying for a month or so. She had the kitten in her arms, and opened the door to watch...exactly when lightning hit nearby with a big clap of thunder. The kitten rocketed out of her arms, and fell to the sidewalk, breaking it's front leg.
After about four weeks of having the leg in a cast, it was finally removed last week. The next day, the daughter turned on the vacuum cleaner, and the cat launched himself off the bed breaking his rear leg. After a couple days of kitty ER, the vet took the leg off, saying it would never heal. He says there is nothing wrong with the kittens bones, it was just a bad break (pun intended).
So.....here we are with an orphaned, accident prone cat, that can't seem to land on his feet, who is castrated, declawed, limping on a front leg, missing a rear leg, and has a tail that could open a padlock.
The kittens name is Koshka, supposed to be Russian for cat, and he is a Siberian. I swear, if he gets an eye patch, I am changing his name to Lucky.
Did I mention I am a dog person?
Rick Potter