What's been missing

I am a cat lover. Dogs are OK but they kinda go along life with a dumb smile on their face and pretty much anybody can be their friend. Unless the dog is Socks and the person is me. And for the record, she growled at me first. Cats can be a bit aloof and bitchy. That is a much more admirable trait to me. You have to earn it with most cats. Dogs? A Milkbone and you're friends for life. Well, the Socks clause still applies.

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In the spring of 2007 the family and I made the trek to the Austin area to pick up our much anticipated Bengal kitten from Katznjamr Bengals. We had plunked down our deposit and had waited not so patiently for the time when our baby was ready to come home. She was not our first Bengal so we knew what we were getting into. Allie was beyond bad though. She took aloof and bitchy to new heights. She was destructive. She didn't like men. She was everything in a cat that makes non cat people hate cats. And I could not have loved that cat more if I had of hatched her myself. Last fall Allie got sick. The vet did everything to try and save her but it was not to be. I lost my Allie cat.

So on Tuesday my partner in crime, Sabrina, called to say that our vet has 2 kittens to give away in his office. An orange and a black and white. Told her thanks but no thanks. I wanted another Bengal and was waiting for another kitten this fall from Allie's breeder. I told myself no for 3 whole days. This morning I called to see if the kittens were still there and as fate would have it, the little orange female was. The vet's office said she was very upset as her buddy had been taken home last night. I asked them to give her her shots (they already had) and I would pick her up. I get there and am presented with the cutest orange kitten that is purring way too loudly, kneading me with her fuzzy paws and smearing my face with her nose and cheeks. Turns out she is a purebred Scottish Fold that didn't fold so she wasn't really marketable. I have never considered the breed for me. I think they look goofy. Ears, pedigree, etc aside, I think she is just what we have been missing. I am glad she is so sweet and so ADD because if she were too much like Allie in personality, well, that just might hurt too much.