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Coloration: Orange & White Tabby
Likes: Food. Ham in particular
Pet-Peeves: He hates it when I try to comb the knots out of his fur near his tail and tries to bite me. He also hates getting the flea and tick stuff between the shoulder blades.
Favorite Toy: a shoestring
Favorite Nap Spot: my chair
Favorite Food: Ham
Skills: Edgar can open cabinets and slip inside
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story: I had lost to illness my precious princess Gabrielle who had owned me for 11 years about three weeks before. I wanted to adopt a kitten. Amazingly there were no free kitten ads in the paper and the shelter had no kittens. Finally the shelter had one black kitten for adoption (Gabby had been black too) we raced down to the shelter only to find a couple in the process of filling out the papers to adopt the kitten. So I looked at the adult cats; I could hardly stand it, I was in tears because I wanted to take them all home. But my husband didn't want an adult; he thought it might have bad habits already. As we were leaving an employee or volunteer at the shelter said: "pssst! you want a kitten?" Seems she had a friend who was an animal rescuer who had a cat with a litter. The whole family, mama and kittens had been found in a box taped shut in a parking lot! (I hate some people). I went to go check out the kittens and there were four gray tabby girls and one little orange boy. I had gone intending to adopt one cat; a girl. (yes, I do like semicolons). Well after picking Edgar's sibling, Emily from the available girls left I said the fateful words: "Oh give me the little orange boy too." And the rest is history.
Lives Remaining: 9 of 9
Forums Motto: Wake me when it's time to eat!
The Groups I'm In: "Cobblestone Square", ****PURRS AND WOOFS FOR THE MISSING****, **Tabbies With 'Tudes** , FOR THE LOVE OF LAUREL, Brilliant Orange Cats Unite, Brusselball, CASINO ROYAL RIVERBOAT, Catster Marketplace, Catster/Dogster Task Force, Olde Furts, PAWS Angels WAGS for Kindness, Samoa's Detective Agency, Stuff On My Cat's CCLs in their GPs, The Catster and Dogster Railroad, The Hazel Lucy Appreciation Society, Zealie Lotto
The Last Forum I Posted In: U.S. Supreme Court to hear "Crush Video" appeal
Mommy has been thinking a lot today about what might have happened to me and Em if she and daddy hadn't come home last night. She has an oral agreement with one of daddy's daughters that the daughter will take care of us or any other kitties in our household "in the event." But today she is thinking she needs to get something more definite done about that.
Purrsonally, I think that is an excellent idea! I would be terribly sad to lose both my mommy and daddy but it would be worse yet if I were to starve, or get tossed out or put in a shelter should that happen! So purr in your pawrents' ears my furriends and tell them to make that contingency plan!!
Fur anycat or human interested, mommy made a slideshow of the pictures daddy took of the car when he went to get their personal stuff out of it. Given the fact that the car rolled at least once the damage is surprisingly light. Don't worry about the brownish red stuff, it's bbq sauce, not blood. Mommy was eating chicken strips at the time... *blushes* Mommy thinks she'll probably get another Nissan...
Today while sisfur and I were having our afternoon nap mommy and daddy took off. They do that a lot on weekends so I wasn't too worried.
But then they didn't come home. And didn't come home. And it was dark, and I hadn't had my dinner!!
Then, finally, I heard the garage door come up but mommy's car didn't pull in! Instead mommy and daddy came walking in with two strange men! So I ran away!
The men stayed in our kitchen talking to mommy and daddy fur a while and finally I got the courage to come in the room and I could see something was wrong with mommy. Fur one thing, she was all messy! Then I could see that she was upset so I got on her lap and purred to comfort her. I heard mommy tell one of the strange men, "See! Cats ARE loving and affectionate!" (This man must have been one of those doggie people.)
Then the two men and mommy and daddy stood in a circle and held hands and effurryone put their heads down and closed their eyes and one of the men talked fur a bit and then they all said "amen" and the two men left.
Now, here comes the good part! Mommy toddled off to take a shower and daddy gave me my Fancy Feast. Then mommy got out of the shower and picked up our plates and washed them while she talked to daddy, Emily and I were both rubbing her ankles... she asked daddy "Do they get a new can tonight?" And daddy said: "I just fed Edgar." But mommy said we had to get fed again since we had watched her wash the plates and we were expecting it. So I got treat food twice!!
purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs,
Edgar
(Note from mommy: We were late because we were in a car wreck. We went out of town. On our way back in we were driving on a turnpike where the speed limit is 75. My husband was driving. He had the cruise set on 75. We were in the far right lane when a pick up truck came from behind us in the left lane and then plowed over into us in the right lane. My husband tried to control the car after impact but the back end spun around and we careened across both lanes until we hit the dirt median and the car rolled. Neither of us is sure whether it rolled once or twice. But it landed back right side up in the median with the tail end sticking out into the lanes of traffic traveling the opposite direction.
Our doors wouldn't work and Phill's window was shattered. My window worked and we crawled out of it. Some good samaritans who had been behind us and seen the whole thing (the truck that hit us drove off) had pulled over and were trying to call the highway patrol. While we were lying in the ditch waiting for the highway patrol and the ambulances another car, or truck, plowed into the back end of my car.
We got strapped onto backboards and got separate ambulance rides 40 minutes or so back to our hometown. We were both x-rayed and sent home with extremely sore necks and prescriptions for Lortabs. It is a miracle that neither of us suffered a major injury.
Oh! And the "two strange men" were a couple of my law partners. I just called the one to come and get us but we all live in the same neighborhood and he picked up the other guy on the way. They are both deeply religious and have been trying to save my soul for some years. I think the poor guys thought there had been some progress on that front when I told them that had I not feared all the good people who had stopped to help us would think I was drunk or insane I would have burst into hymns lying there in that ditch when I realized we had both come through virtually unscathed! But, sadly, I think he was somewhat disillusioned when I popped open a beer and lit a cigarette when I got home!
But all kidding aside... I am deeply thankful to be here typing this diary for my darling boy, Edgar. And I believe, other than being really sore for a while, and having my car totalled, we are going to be fine.
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