Cat of the Day
BackBack June 22, 2014 ForwardForward

Today's Cat
Nominate Your Pet
Previous Cats
Pet Talk
Poll
Search
Links
Why?
About Us

Today's
Cat of the Day
Today's Cat of the Day
 
Spanky, the Cat of the Day
Name: Spanky
Age: Deceased, Ten years old
Gender: Male
Kind: American Shorthair
Home: La Vista, Nebraska, USA
 
   My wife and I have been married for almost 39 years and cats have been a part of our lives from the very beginning. We started out with a pair of Himalayans but every cat since has been a rescue. Spanky is our most dearest foundling. We found him in the middle of the road, almost dead but with just enough energy to get up and run down a nearby hole. My wife and I dug him out and could not believe that this little ball of matted fur was a kitten, or that it was still alive. He was very sick, had an eye infection and smelled very bad! The vet estimated his age at five weeks and only gave him a 50/50 chance of survival. He also thought he'd be blind in the infected eye.

    When we brought him home he ate everything in sight and we considered changing his name to Hoover. He and a prior adoption, Charlie, became the best of friends and were inseparable. The eye healed, he kept his sight, but it was scarred. It never slowed him down, but once in the middle of the night while playing tag with Charlie, he zigged when he should have zagged and hit the door jam at full speed, WACK! Dazed kitty! Three weeks after finding Spanky we found another "sewer" kitten. Autumn, a calico, was in much better shape than Spanky had been and after a short quarantine, and much love from her adoptive brother, she found her forever home with two teenage girls. Spanky also got to "pay it forward" when he helped us adopt our latest rescue, Zonker. Spanky left us way too early. He was my wife's companion, sometime a nuisance, but always a joy.

Spanky, the Cat of the Day
Spanky, the Cat of the Day

Talk about today's cat in Pet Talk!




Tina the Tabby Sitka the Norwegian Forest Cat Miss Boo the Tabby Indiana Jones the European Shorthair Lovey the Tabby mix Chimney the Domestic Shorthair Minou the Calico Cat Easton the Cat
©1998-2014 Painted Turtle Productions, all rights reserved.
Privacy