Adoption Story
This is Mittens, she was our family cat and the very first cat I had. She is what made me fall in love with cats, she was the sweetest, and very tolerant of kids. We met her by accident, my mom had another cat for us to go meet and take home. We, my mom, brother, and I, stopped at a pet store to get some food as the place we were going to get the other cat from didn’t have any. That store also had some pets for adoption. One in particular, who they were walking around the store with a harness. Of course, we wanted to come and pet her. We absolutely fell in love with her, and decided we wanted her instead without meeting the other cat, which my mom had spent months looking for. They say the cat chooses you, and she did. I think it took losing her to know how much of a positive impact she had on me and we should cherish and spoil them for their short time with us. This is probably why my cat Milo and my parents’ cat Asher are so spoiled. Mittens is probably cursing us from heaven like I never got any of this you spoiled bastards.
Old Photos of Mittens <3
Personality
- Loving
- Friendly
- Attention lover
- Tolerant of kids
Favorite Toys
- Rug in front of my parents’ fireplace
- Toys with feathers
- Mousies
Nicknames
- Mitters
- Mitter Twitter
- Baby
- Trouble- we had no idea who trouble really was (Asher)
Mittens’ Likes
- To take naps with you
- To go outside
- To groom you like you are her baby
- Bathing in the sun
- Rolling in the dirt
Scrapbook Pages with Mittens
In Loving Memory
“If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever”
David Ellsworth
Coat Pattern – Tortoiseshell
The tortoiseshell fur pattern gets its name due to its resemblance to the shell of a tortoiseshell. Also called tortie, they are typically bicolored cats with the colors existing in small areas or strips of color mixed together with little to no white. They are typically black and orange, however, the orange can be cream or yellow mixed with black, which can be brown, grey, or blue instead. Commonly torties coloring on their faces can be split, with mostly black on one side and mostly red/orange on the other (Tortoiseshell cat). This can be just on their face or throughout their whole body (Scott). Tortoiseshell cats are almost always female and very rarely male (Tortoiseshell cat). This is because the same chromosome determines both their sex and their pattern (Donnelly). In order to have the tortie pattern there must be two X chromosomes present, which makes them both female and have the pattern. If born male, they likely have an extra X chromosome (Scott).