Super Kitty!

We were out walking and I had to smile at our super kitty. He seems to think he is a dog. He just trots alongside the stroller and goes for the walk with us. As far as cats go, he is really social and it pretty tolerant of the kids.

In fact, when we first got him, he got to stay because he was so nice to the kids. When we moved to our house, he started haning around the yard. Then he moved to the porch. Then he kept trying to get inside the house. But he was always good with the kids and they liked him, so we decided we would feed him. We tried to keep him outside, and that went so-so. Once we went on a vacation, and let him stay in the garage and left food. When we came home, it seemed like he was limping. We discovered he had a broken paw, so we took him to the vet. They casted him and we took care of him, and we figured since we paid the $500 vet bill, we might as well sincerely keep him, because he was an awfully expensive cat. ;)

I knew he was an amazing cat the day we brought him home from the vet's. I came downstairs and saw him trying to eat and 3.5 year old Michael holding him in a semi-headlock (lovingly...of course) trying to feed him a green jelly bean to "make his hurt foot feel better." He was not scratching Michael's eyes out, despite being hungry and hurt. Rather he just seemed resigned. I freed him and he went to hide out under my bed, but I had a real respect for the cat. Not many cats in that predicament would have reacted like that.

He seems to fit so well though, because I am usually SO allergic to cats, but he doesn't really bother my allergies. He also is very tidy and doesn't shed. And he's super with the kids. He is just the perfect pet. OH! And since the area we live in is still kind of rural (it was quite a lot more rural when we moved here) he has kept our house mouse-free. That is another great perk. And he follows us on walks.