Introducing the Original Spice Meows
Gingerella (Ginger for short) and Peppery Veronica (Pepa for short) are our original spice meows. We found Ginger as a starving kitten, lying on Ronald McDonald's fibreglass lap a few days before Christmas 2005. We were going on a day trip and had stopped by McD's for breakfast. We saw him on our way in and clucked to ourselves about the poor skinny kitten. We saw him again on our way out. As we stood there contemplating him, Gravitas commented that he won't survive very long on his own. I was contented with life, and our little apartment and the minimal housekeeping involved in maintaining it.
But the little marmalade kitten on Ronald McD's lap started playing with its scruffy tail. I thought that the little guy deserved better than a life of starvation and disease. So Gravitas picked kitty up, we cancelled our day trip and made straight for the vet's. Today, Ginger is fat, lazy and contented. He's hoity-toity and only wants to be cuddled on his own terms. This is a picture of Ginger on his first day home with us.
We found Pepa outside Baskin Robbins in USJ Taipan on the anniversary of D-Day last year. I was having an icecream craving but on our way into BR, we saw a tiny, scrawny and filthy brown and black kitten scampering along the five-foot way. Icecream was forgotten, kitten snatched, and home we went since it was too late to go to the vet. Pepa gobbled up the food we offered her and her first poop smelt of the very same kitten food. It may have been that her gut was completely empty. The Pepa of today is also fat. But she is a huntress of bugs, flies, lizards and other vermin. And she's good at it too - that paw of hers can move with lightning speed notwithstanding her body having the proportions of a cow.
This is Pepa soon after we got her.
Ginger took to her immediately and they've been buddies ever since.
But the little marmalade kitten on Ronald McD's lap started playing with its scruffy tail. I thought that the little guy deserved better than a life of starvation and disease. So Gravitas picked kitty up, we cancelled our day trip and made straight for the vet's. Today, Ginger is fat, lazy and contented. He's hoity-toity and only wants to be cuddled on his own terms. This is a picture of Ginger on his first day home with us.
We found Pepa outside Baskin Robbins in USJ Taipan on the anniversary of D-Day last year. I was having an icecream craving but on our way into BR, we saw a tiny, scrawny and filthy brown and black kitten scampering along the five-foot way. Icecream was forgotten, kitten snatched, and home we went since it was too late to go to the vet. Pepa gobbled up the food we offered her and her first poop smelt of the very same kitten food. It may have been that her gut was completely empty. The Pepa of today is also fat. But she is a huntress of bugs, flies, lizards and other vermin. And she's good at it too - that paw of hers can move with lightning speed notwithstanding her body having the proportions of a cow.
This is Pepa soon after we got her.
Ginger took to her immediately and they've been buddies ever since.
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