Here is a follow-up to the last Throwback Thursday Post from July of 2016. Adopting Floki brought an illness into the family, but everyone recovered eventually.
Throwback Thursday: Frankie Update
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I See You Squirrel
Frankie has always been interested in squirrels. Whenever we go for a walk and he sees one, he sinks down to the grass like a stalker and actually thinks he might catch it. This morning he chased one up a tree, but the squirrel remained low, just out of reach, as if he was deliberately taunting Frankie.
Photo Friday: The Magnificent Trio
Here is a photo from this day in 2010. Chris is at the top with Abbey and Tigger below. Abbey and Tigger liked to hang out together and Chris always became an unwanted third wheel.
Photo Friday: Keeping Warm
It has been cold here in the morning the last few days. Yesterday we woke up to a bone chilling 49 degrees. I almost had to exchange my shorts for long pants. Rose sometimes has trouble sleeping and gets up early in the morning. She took these photos of our cats trying to stay warm.
Throwback Thursday: Another Vet Visit for Frankie
Here is a post from 2016. We adopted Floki with an eye infection, and he spread it to Frankie.
Photo Friday: Classic Group Photo
I hope our American friends had a nice Thanksgiving yesterday. I don’t have any good recent photos so I thought I would share one from November 25, 2009. This is a group shot with Abbey on top and Alex, Chris, and Tigger on the bottom.
We had one other cat at the time, Flash, who is missing from the photo.
I Forgot Chris’s Fourteenth Gotcha Day
Yes, I did it again. Chris’s fourteenth gotcha day was Tuesday and I missed it. I remembered the previous Friday, but I was busy at the time and didn’t think about it again until late last night.
We adopted Chris on November 14, 2009. He was about six months old at the time. I first met Chris over a month before while cleaning cages at PetSmart. He jumped from the floor to my back and climbed me like Mount Everest. When he reached my shoulders, he started biting my ear and then my nose.
Can you imagine a kitten like that not getting adopted? Actually, he did get adopted but he was far too annoying and was returned the next day. A week or two after I first met Chris, I brought my wife to the Sav-R-Cats adoption center in Surfside Beach South Carolina to see him. That was on the third of October.
Alas, we didn’t adopt him that day. We already had too many cats. We also had a cruise coming up as well as a business trip for my wife.
On the twelfth of November Rose was away on her business trip and I was at the shelter. I was a volunteer, and my job was to photograph cats and post them on Petfinder, but I never photographed Chris for some unknown reason. Chris got on my shoulders again and another volunteer photographed me with my phone. In 2009, I did not have a good camera on my phone.
I texted Rose with the photo and said, “Can we keep him?”
When she returned from her trip we went to the shelter and brought him home. He took over from the moment we let him out of the carrier. We didn’t do what you are supposed to do. We just unleashed the kraken on the rest of our cats.
Photo Friday: Relaxing by the Pool
Here is Chris just over ten years ago on November 15, 2013. He was relaxing by the pool trying to get some sun on his belly.
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Photo Friday: Resistance
My wife bought new rugs, so I had to roll up the old rugs and get rid of them, but Chris was not ready to let them go.
Throwback Thursday: More Kitten Antics
Here is another video of Floki when he was a kitten in 2016.
Bad Cat Chris 