Oh how petcretary loved her Meezers. There were six over the years...
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| Groucho; Simba; Suki; Toki; MJF; Minko; Pipo |
Years and eons ago, (1975), petcretary who thought she could never have cats due to bad allergies, found out quite by coincidence that oriental kitties didn't cause her too many issues. Who'd-a-thunk!?! But she never had opportunity, (o-purr-tuna-ty), to have one herself till shortly after she got married.
So then she saw a little note in their local 'gossip paper' for a family who had to remove all pets out of their home, due to the two preemies coming in there on respirators...how hard for that family to have to rehome their two cats and a dog. (She couldn't take the second cat because it was a domestic long haired one...and they were not ready to adopt any dogs at that point in their lives.)
The rest of this 'story' is narrated by Petcretary:
So in Feb of 1988 I came home with Groucho, a chocolate point siamese, of around seven years old. And wow he really lived up to his name, LOL! Not to us, but to strangers...it took almost a month for him to decide we were OK to be his new peeps, and then he was our best friend, demanding lap time, and discussing everything with us.
He seemed lonely, so soon we adopted a kitten, whom we named Simba. Simba was a blue point, perhaps he might even have been a tonkinese, but who cares! After a day or two of hisses from Groucho, Simba was 'adopted' and mentored by Groucho, and they became inseparable.
Simba was a fetch kitty! And an escape artist...doors were meant to go through no matter what, and he did. Often getting outside where he could be easily retrieved since he went straight to any patch of tender grass to indulge in it. This kitty was a plant eater, so we never had any houseplants, and even bouquets were in danger! One day when son #2 was a toddler, he opened the back door and I didn't realize that Simba had gotten out...and had spent a good twenty minutes in the back of our yard, munching on the tall grass there. It was a warm humid day...Simba died in his sleep about 18 months after that...apparently he succumbed to a heartworm...obviously infected by a mosquito when he was on that outside walkabout. It only takes one...after this all our pets got/get heartworm preventative every month, throughout the year, we see mosquitoes inside once in a whole...and...it only takes one.
Groucho mourned him for weeks, yowling and grumbling all the day and night, pacing the house, looking for him,,,even though he had seen the body...
So we got another kitten, this was Suki, a seal point. Groucho soon 'adopted' and mentored her too. Suki was a real diva of a kitty, she soon became the boss! She loved to sit and preen if she thought anyone was watching her, teehee!
When Suki was about 6 months old, we adopted another kitten, a blue point boy whom we called Toki. (He too might have been a Tonk, because his eyes were not the deep saphire of a meezer. He was another fetch kitty, too) Toki also loved to nosh on grass and once he ate all the spinach seedlings and the grass seedlings of our son's science project...his intelligence had outsmarted our barricades, LOL!
Suki was furious (if a cat can have that emotion...), and hissed at me and Groucho and of course Toki. It took ages before she would allow Toki to be near her...but eventually we did have times when we would see all three cats sharing the same space.
So when Groucho was 18 or 19, (we never really knew for sure), he earned his angel wings...Suki and Toki did not mourn outwardly the way Groucho had done when he lost Simba.
When Suki was a mature woman cat of about 5 or 6, we got MJF., a Jack Russell puppy. A tiny pup of 2.5 pounds. Once again I got the cold shoulder from Suki, and a lot of hisses. Toki decided MJF was a nice warm presence and climbed right into his bed. Those two were best buddies for the rest of their lives together.
When Toki was 7, he passed away from the effects of severe uncontrollable diabetes. So sad for MJF...but Suki seemed to think she was now in control of everything at our home, LOL!
But...along came another 2 meezer kittens! On Feb 14, 2006, we welcomed Pipo and Minko. who came from different parts of the city, but were available at the same time! So they were brothers from other mothers, adopted on the day of love! But of course Suki was NOT impressed!
Suki started to have seizures due to an inner ear issue, which gradually got so that I had to put her in a big cat cage if I wasn't there, because her seizures upset the other two cats and MJF, so that they even almost attacked her once. We let her go at almost age 11...
Pipo was a seal point, and Minko was a lilac or light blue point, and he too may have been more of a Tonk, with his paler blue eyes. They began our journey into the social media platform of Catster...in 2010. (MJF in 2009)
When Catster closed in 2014, we began blogging, and you all knew them as Meezer's Mews! (WeBeesSiamese)
Minko left us suddenly on Father's Day, 2017. Pipo enjoyed all the attention as a single after that. He didn't seem to mind that Minko the 'boss' was gone, he actually became friendlier with MJF and also was more of a lap kitty after that as well. Slowly he became an 'old man' with all the health issues to go along with aging...he did not at all appreciate it when we adopted Dalton to be a buddy for MJF...but he sometimes would sneak a sniff, LOL!
We let Pipo become an angel in November of 2020, at the age of almost 16.
We don't have a lot of pics of the first four kitties, and not too many of the first years of Pipo & Minko, since we didn't have digital cameras back then...so the few we have are scanned copies...of the prints.
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| Groucho |
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| Simba |
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| Suki |
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| Toki |
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| Minko |
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| Pipo |
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