A month before Easter, my friend
who has a gorgeous horse farm had a stray kitty show up – actually it climbed
into the window of her daughter’s room and climbed into bed, snuggling and
purring … scaring the poor daughter and son-in-law to death because they don’t
have any kitties. They took her to the
vet, as the daughter happens to be a veterinary assistant while she’s finishing
up college, and found out that it was a Mama-to-be cat. Easter weekend she had her kittens.
Zach and I drove out to the horse
farm, and visited Mama cat and her 5 babies.
One was Siamese looking with tabby markings, one was black with a milk
mustache, and there were the three Tabby girls that looked just like their
mother, except two were twins and one was the runt, very delicate and small and
a cute little monkey face… We picked “Monkey Face”. Like a tiny little marmoset….
8 weeks later, my little girl
went to be spayed, and was dropped off with me at work… to have and to hold
forever, till death do us part… She’s the most beautiful little Tabby girl,
loving, snuggling, and sweet. She’s won
our hearts forever.
Her name is Noomi.
I was terrified that Habibi would
be aggressive and hurt her, but instead….
NOOMI is the aggressor – she jumps
on him, bites him, scratches him, hits him, chases him, scares him, bats him
away from the food bowl, bats him off my bed when he and I are snoozing
together… my giant, 11 + lbs. Persian boy goes running… grumbling.. but running
because of a 3 lbs. little terror-mite.
Occasionally, in the middle of
the night she gets scared and come running, crying onto my bed, climbs up on my
neck, back, shoulders and purrrrrrrrrrs and licks my face till she falls back
to sleep. I love it… Habibi will sleep
on my legs/feet in the winter to stay warm, and once in a blue moon, like the
other afternoon, he’ll take a nap with me and snuggle, but it’s rare and few
between that he’s that loving. So, this
little Noomi girl is a lovely change, finally, finally, I have a snuggle
bug!!!!!!!!!! I hope she stays that way,
always.
