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I grew up as a 'Dog Person', as my Mom HATED cats, but I always loved them, and dreamed that someday I'd have one of my own...and now, I've had FOUR!
Allow me to introduce them...
Chapter One: CANDY
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I adopted Candy from the North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Animal Shelter in 2001. The six-month-old brown tabby had been picked up as a stray, and was considered unlikely for adoption because she wasn't a kitten...but she picked me, with a loving gaze from within her cage, and I simply couldn't say no!
The staff had named her Candy because of her sweet disposition...a character trait that lasted until I got her home!
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I quickly discovered that while she could be affectionate, she was a free spirit who preferred the outdoors...would only drink from the toilet bowl(??!!)...and that her love bites were painful, as she was never satisfied unless she drew blood!
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Unfortunately, my art career required me to relocate to Las Vegas, Nevada, and, after a twenty-four hundred mile crosscountry drive, over four days (a real adventure, with a cat who HATED riding!), I discovered our new home would be a third-floor apartment, and that Candy would be forced to adapt to being an 'indoor' cat...
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Sadly, Candy never adjusted to the restrictions of a life indoors. Despite my best efforts to entertain her, she grew moody and distant. After a month in our new home, as I napped, she jumped off the third-floor balcony onto a tree, and disappeared!
Despite posting a homemade flyer, searches of the apartment complex, and visits to the local animal shelters, I couldn't find her. My friends theorized that she was trying to return to South Carolina; a somewhat jaded shelter employee said, bluntly, after three weeks missing, that she was certainly dead, an opinion I refused to share!
However, after a month had passed, I finally admitted to myself that Candy wasn't coming back, and that I'd have to find new cats to fill my home and my life!
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