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Originally Posted by jjjnettie
Most of the pets I've had have been rescued.
There was Matilda (Tilly), a Foxie cross wire haired terrier . . .
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Likewise, 'Nettie. I purchase a little ginger kitten umpteen years ago for 50c at a local pet store. Within a year or three two other ginger cats 'adopted' our family. They were made welcome. One of them was a 'feral' - but only because he'd been dumped - and turned up on our back balcony one evening literally starving; his back legs didn't work. How on Earth he managed the 12 steps I don't know. He stayed with us for a few years but then simply disappeared. Despite myself, my wife and my children scouring the neighborhood we didn't find the poor sod. The other adopted was an absolutely gorgeous British Shorthair (I think) - he was a really, really handsome cat.
The original female passed away at about 17 years of age and the adopted BSH at about the same age just a few months later. That left a huge hole in our family. My daughter (bless her little cotton socks) purchased a couple of young felines - both ginger - from a council pound close to where she works and presented them to us. The one which recently succumbed to cancer was one of those.
Her name? Tilly.
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Yes, all of them were de-sexed - either before or after joining us.