Shiloh's Story

Born: Winter 2007

Tortoiseshell Cat

Shiloh has quite the story.  A little sad at first but she got a happy ending.

When we lived over in NS, my husband was overseeing the renovations of a Walmart, that was located an hour away.  Since most of the major reno. happened at night, that was when he would be working. These renovations were going on in Feb./March 2008 and every Friday, he would come home for the weekend, then I would drive him back on Sundays.  Now a few weeks into the renovations, one night a little kitten (few months old) made its way to the front of the store and pawed at the doors to try to get in.  My husband noticed the cat and since it was the start of the shift he took the cat and placed it in one of his co-workers Jeep till his shift was over (couldn't watch/ pay attention to a cat inside the store while he was working).  At the end of the night he took the cat, heading back to his hotel where the staff were quite taken to this little fur ball and her story of trying to get inside the Walmart to get warm. They agreed to let her stay in the room with him until he found it a home. 

Cue phone call to me...  Can we keep her?

At this time we had two dogs and one cat and I said no way.  No more.  That sure doesn't seem to stick when I say that:) It was a Wednesday when he called me, I would be going to pick him up the next day to take him home "without" a cat.  He kept insisting that she was friendly, small and just well adorable.  This coming from a guy who never thought he would be a cat person.  I still said no.

So the next day I travelled to the hotel and when I arrived around 2pm the room was pitch black, and my husband was half asleep so I asked, "so where's this cat?".  He lifted up the covers and here was the cat curled up asleep beside him. I went to go and pet her and she did one of her little meows and she got right up and came and curled up beside me.  Now come on!! Did you have to be that cute that fast?  

Later on came to find out her favourite things in the room were playing with/shredding the daily newspaper and also unravelling the toilet paper in the bathroom.  The hotel staff had also given her toys which were scattered throughout the room.  I forgot to mention this before, but what I usually ended up doing was I would drive up to the hotel on Thursdays, stay the night while my husband was at work then drive home in the morning. Before my husband left for the night he told me that if we weren't going to take her that one of the hotel staff had a cousin that was interested.  So that night I debated whether or not to keep her.  Now my husband claims my mind was made up that first moment I saw her. Which might/might not be the truth..... 

I named her Shiloh.

She still loves being under the covers.

P.S.  The morning before we heading home with Shiloh, my husband said that night they found a box of kittens that looked like Shiloh, left abandoned behind the store next to the dumpster.  I believe there were five kittens in total.  All boys.  Shiloh, was the only girl in the lot and the only smart one to travel to find better shelter/warmth.. Typical males. :)  Happy to say all were saved and taken to the local shelter where they found homes.

Fun Fact: "Cats of this coloration are believed to bring good luck in the folklore of many cultures.  In the United States, these are sometimes referred to as money cats."  We're still waiting for the "money" bit to kick in :p

Keira's Story: The Picture.

Keira

Siberian Husky

Born: November 13, 2007

The story of how we came to have Keira, starts with me simply looking thru an online classified site. I came across Keira's picture(shown below)and I just feel in love. LOL. I couldn't stop staring at her.  I know this probably sounds a bit strange but it's the truth.  Anyone who knows me, knows that I have always adored Siberian Huskies, and I kept telling myself.  One day I will have one.  

Back to the photo.  After seeing the ad, I never said anything. I just kept it to myself because well, we already had two dogs & two cats.  Oh and not to mention I was also getting married in less than a month. But I kept on coming back to "the picture". Debating in my head whether or not to bring it up with my fiancé/husband. So the next evening I replied back to the ad asking if the lady still had the husky for sale.  My thought was hey if she's already sold, she's already sold and that will be the end of it.  Do you ever get that feeling when you hit the send button on an email or message and your heart jumps up in your throat you kind of panic and you question what the hell you just did?  Well I got that feeling, plus add in some excitement and hope that she was still available. 

The reply came back. The lady said she still had the female husky who was 6 months old and her name was Keira.  Now that's another story as well.  I told myself that if I ever did get a Siberian Husky, and it was a female.  Guess what I would of named her?  Keira.  I swear to God.  She was perfect.  How could I not go and get her now?  But I still hesitated and waited.  Remember how I said I was just about to get married?  Well my fiancé kept trying to get me to pick something for him to get me for a wedding present.  I kept telling him your crazy, I didn't/don't need a wedding present. I'm not one for tradition, you got me wearing a dress, that's as close to tradition as your gonna get my friend.  So I finally caved in and said, well if you really want to get me a wedding present then well meet Keira.

Two days later we hopped into the car and drove 3 hours (each way) to meet Keira.  Keira was a little bit bigger than what she was in the first picture (something I will kind of regret. I never had her from a puppy), she was a little shy. Hmmm, remind your of anybody? The lady we got her from said she was a sweet little girl but she couldn't keep her, because she had another husky as well & two little kids and that was a bit too much. Oh and then came the fun...

The lady for some reason went to let the her other husky out in it's dog pen but when she opened the back door, off went Keira.  For two hours we tried to catch her.  The lady wasn't much help because she had to stay and watch her children so that left my fiancé and I. Two strangers trying to catch a born, bred runner. Yep, that was an experience.  Keira would come just close enough that you thought that you'd be able to catch her than then nope, off she went again.  Finally she got thirsty and went to her water dish.  Success! We said our goodbyes and we headed back along with her baby blanket & her little pink squeaky pig toy...

Keira had arrived :)

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