Aspies For Freedom

Gregory (197? - 1976) our only unneutered cat, a male.  A real stinker.  I got along well with him but my brother wasn't ready for a pet.  I think we abandoned him not knowing else what to do- for brother's sake

Tizzle (1978) - female, not known if spayed, probably someone else's, ran away, stayed for the extra meals, stayed long enough to get her foot caught in a locking portable steel file cabinet (yeoww indeed)

Caesar (1985-1986) rescued stray, given full round of neutering.  Joined us on long summer car trip.  Made good friends with cat without claws (Aunt Cheryl's cat Tiger), not good friends with Aunt Effie's cat Smoky.  Dad reported killed by motorist, did not see for self.  

Callie (1987-1990) a gift from brother's classmate (original name Screamer), the smallest kitty in litter.  Seems Chop Chop ran her off.  Also named Lt. Callie or Sgt. Furry.

Chop Chop (1988 - my custody 1999, reported dead 2002)  Dad rescued her rather than have small kids bring her (kitten) to Humane Society (known that H.S. has to euthanize the excess population).  Callie thought we were replacing her, to be sure, crying on the deck.  They made peace eventually, but Callie never came home one day in the summer of 1990.  I gave Chop Chop away when it was politically incorrect to keep the cat at Mom's apt in 1999: Mom and management were in a war over repairing the cold water which was running hot.  The new owner and wife called her Psychokitty (their macaw also called her Psycho Kitty) and reported her dead in 2002 - 2003.

Chloe (b. 2002, 2003 - ) - rescued by Metroferals.org feline rescue organization of North Arlington county, Virginia.  I adopted her about mid-March 2003 already spayed with shots.  I had to pay for the I.D. microchip (Home Again) myself.  She is an exceptionally friendly cat on the par with Caesar and slightly more perhaps than Callie, definitely more than Chop Chop, who seemed autistic.

Alternate names for Chop Chop (from mom) included  Muffin and my brother (Missy).

Metroferals was not sure in their own mind whether to call my cat Chloe (on the Web site) or anagramatically, Chleo.  I selected Chloe because I liked it better (the Left Behind character, and I like the name infinitely better than Cleo)

If I had to name the cat from scratch, I would have named the cat either Linda, Theresa, Rachel, Julie, Christy, Cathy, or Becky

My cat is called Cleo.  I got her from a girl at work whose psorisis was aggravated by her cats and she in turn got Cleo from the Cat Protection League.  She's quite dog-like in some ways and does answer to her name.  She also answers to the word "milk" and will appear, as if by magic, at the sound of the fridge door opening!

I have two cats:

Sierra is my Siamese.  He is a kitten and an absolute terror.  I ask myself every day why I got a kitten!  LOL!  But then he lays on me and purrs or talks to me in that Siamese voice, and I forget that gigantic scratch down my chest from when he tried to jump on my shoulder from the floor!  OW!  I bought him from a breeder, as I really wanted a purebred Siamese.

Olivia is my DSH.  She is jet black except for some white hairs that show up on her belly.  She has huge yellow eyes.  She is the best cat that anyone could ever ask for, ever.  She is 4 years old.  We got her at the Animal Control facility.  We had gone to see another kitten to keep Sierra company while we are at work all day, and the kitten did not seem to be a good fit.  And there was Olivia.  She had been there for 6 weeks, her previous owner "went to prison" it said on the tag.  No one adopts black cats, and certainly not adult ones.  I am so glad we gave her a good home.

I love my kitties.  When our daughter was born we had 3 cats.  One of them began to mercilessly vomit on everything that was my daughter's.  EVERYTHING.  We found him and other younger cat a home with a good friend of ours.  Our older cat had to be put down at 13 with cancer.  We ended up petless and spent the last 8 years that way.  I could not be happier with adding to our family again, with some feline members!