I have no two-legged children, so my cats are my kids. And nearly five years ago I rescued my first two furry loves from the impending doom of Hurricane Isabel. It was the Friday before Labor Day. I was weed whacking the side yard of my townhouse. I ran out of extension cord and stoped to untangle the mess and get more length on the cord. Thank God. I was two inches from two adorable kittens....estimated to be about seven days old..making their birthday August 28th.
My first concern was what was crying in the bush? My second concern was, are they okay? My third concern was, what do I do now? I had never had cats before. But with the Hurricane slinking it's way up the coast, I couldn't leave them outside.
So my husband (James) and I became instant kitty parents. It was probably much similar to what you go through when you have a newborn baby in the house. Waking up to bottle feed them in the middle of the night. Helping them pee (that's another story if you've never experienced that).
We found out we had one girl and one boy. Their names, a week later, became Minx and Rudy. Minx is the little one I am tickling in the first picture. She looks so tiny!!! Rudy is the one James is bottle feeding to the right.
Rudy and Minx have been utter blessings to both of us. We couldn't love them more if they had our DNA. So today I would like to throw a Happy Birthday out there to these special kitties. And give you a couple more of their "baby" pictures out of our enormous collection.
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