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Date of birth: 2004(ish).
Name: Maxi
Nicknames: Miss Momma,
Mama, Tony Soprano (she gives you a fabulous dead-eyed look if
you mess with her).
Likes: Being petted,
but she has a very low petting threshhold and will bite you if
you mess with her for too long. Being let outside, and then back
inside. Then outside. Inside. Outside. Inside. And on and ON.
Snackin' time. Sleeping on the recliner in the front room, or
the set of stairs in front of the window.
Dislikes: Anyone getting in her space.
Maxi (we almost always
call her Momma or Miss Momma) showed up in our back yard before
the house was ours. She had obviously recently given birth, and
it was probably a month later that she showed up on our front
porch with her litter of kittens.
With her was Newt,
who we assumed was the father of the kittens. He was very, very
attached to Miss Momma and would rub up against her and follow
her around and give her the Love Eyes. Eventually, we snatched
Miss Momma and Newt up and brought them inside.
We had the whole lot
of them spayed and neutered, adopted the kittens out through the
shelter I volunteer for, and Miss Momma and Newt were supposed
to belong to a neighbor, who offered to take them in. As I mentioned
above, Miss Momma and Newt had other plans, and adopted us. They
were supposed to be outside-only cats, but Fred is a great big
softie, and ended up bringing them inside. They stay inside a
lot, but anytime they want out, they let us know. We don’t keep
them inside against their will.
Also, we always claim
they’re “Not ours”, though no one (not even us!) believes us.
I have no idea how old Miss Momma is; I'm going to assign her
a fairly random age of 4, but she could be younger (if she's older,
it's probably not by much).
See
more pictures of Miss Momma over at Flickr.
Main
cat page.
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