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November 9, 2005

Cat Stories, Part 1

Back in 1994, John was driving from Oklahoma to Leavenworth for a conference. He stopped at a rest stop just outside of Ottowa, Kansas and a kitten followed him from the car to the restroom. The kitten apparently liked John, because he waited outside the restroom door for him. Then he showed John just how talented and smart a kitty he was by chasing, catching and eating a june bug. yech.

John checked with some of the truckers who were at the rest stop, and they told him the kitten had been there all day long, so he put the cat in his truck and went on his way.

Back then, John and I were dating. I lived in Olathe, Kansas (Olathe is Shawnee Indian for Garage Sale, by the way) and my house was on his way to Ft. Leavenworth. John knew I was a critter lover, as I had two dogs at the time.

He was pretty smart about it - John called me from a pay phone and did not ask me if I wanted the kitten, but explained the situation and said he was going to take the kitten to the Ft. Leavenworth veterinarian and let the vet find a home for him. I am a sucker for critters, and I told him that I'd take the poor kitty. What he didn't tell me was that he had already stopped at the grocery store and had purchased kitty litter, a litter box and kitty food already, or that he was just a couple miles from my house.

So John brought the kitten over, named him RestStop and I had a new critter.

RestStop was petrified of my Golden Retriever and my Black Labrador Retriever puppy and spent his first two weeks wih me in the rafters of the basement.

Since then, he has learned to get along just fine with dogs. In fact, he has even come to Houdini's rescue when Whiskey was going after him.

And he does have nice hair, Jim!

Posted by Beth at November 9, 2005 7:12 AM

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Posted by: John of Argghhh! at November 9, 2005 7:41 PM

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