We lost our big kitty, Tuffy. He was with us over ten years and we loved him lots. Back when we decided to get a kitty we read through the papers for kittens and then realized we would have to go to the pet store. Pet stores work with rescues and offer rescued kittens for sale. Most of them are fixed too. So thinking we were looking for a fluffy tabby we found two short hair black half grown kittens. Because it was getting near to Autumn they wanted homes for the black kittens before Halloween. They dropped the price and we brought the two home. They had names like Spook and Scary so Hailey renamed them Tuffy and Angel. About a year later one evening Angel ran outside when I was bringing in stuff from my car. We never saw her again. Tuffy's fur was raised and he looked scared. We think a coyote got Angel. Where we live that can happen. Tuffy stayed close to home and we always made sure he was in at night. Later we got two other cats and then there were kittens. We kept two. It cost a lot to get all the kitties fixed. Over the years we lost four and then Hailey got a pretty kitten named Annie. She went out one morning and was gone. That was just a month after I took her to the vet. So we got Hailey a kitty named Shadow. Shadow is not allowed outside alone.
It is hard to believe that Tuff is gone. I said I wouldn't get another cat. I meant it too. Then looking at a facebook page for resale in our area, I saw the photo of a pretty orange tabby with white feet. He needed a home because the older cats were beating him up. He was living in the bathroom. We found out that they got him a week earlier so he wasn't with them very long. I'm not sure of the name they had given him but Hailey named the kitten Rusty. Rusty is younger than I thought he was from his photos. He likes to run and play. Yesterday Hailey bought him toys at Walmart.
