Because the Internet Needs More Pictures of Cute Cats

Well, you may have seen them lurking in the backgrounds of our pictures, so it’s time for some formal introductions.  These guys are Turk & JD. I grew up in the woods, and we always had cats to keep down the mice.  You might pet one on the way by for a few minutes, but they were strictly outdoor.  Patrick never had cats. 

During our last year at Western we were fortunate enough to get the opportunity to house sit at a B&B in a gorgeous old house.  We were there for about 6 months, and we were in charge of taking care an 18 year old, 24lb cranky black cat named Inky.  Inky didn’t like me, I was the one that came in to vacuum every week, which is how were given the opportunity to house sit.  Inky adored Patrick, and he adored her. Inky was ridiculous, she’d heave herself up to a chair to take a nab at your bacon, or crawl inside your bag of chips if they were left on the table.  Our last few quarters at Western classes were brutal. We kept telling ourselves, we just have to get through, then we can move, get jobs, get our own place, and get our own cats.  It seems silly, but cats were our carrot, our light at the end of the tunnel. 

We graduated, I worked hard to find a job, and we found a great starter rental house.  We settled in, and our friends mom was fostering kittens, we were hoping to get a pair of them. That didn’t work out, but it’s a good thing that it didn’t or we never would have gotten our boys.  We were looking on craigslist in early October. Normally Craigslist is flooded with postings of people begging you to take their kittens off their hands. There was only one post that day, and it was for an adoptathon at the Petco in Covington, about 10-15 minutes away. The event was ending in 15 minutes.  Again, Patrick said “I’ll get the keys,” and we hauled over there.  We wanted one boy, and one girl. There were two sets of siblings, two sisters from one litter, two brothers from another. Patrick had never had cats before, as I said, and he really wanted the boys, so that’s what we did. We signed our forms, paid the best $185 we’ve ever spent, and took our boys home.  They were quiet the whole way home. They cuddled each other and purred all the way. We love them to death, it hasn’t always been easy, but we wouldn’t trade them for anything!