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Some background on the girls:

Emily is a 4½ month old kitten who almost died when she swallowed some dental floss that wrapped around her tongue and intestines.

Her family had opted to euthanize her, but the veterinarian asked Emily's owners to surrender her to the veterinary clinic. The vet then performed life-saving surgery on Emily and she successfully recovered in a foster home.

She has a stately, though friendly, way about her.

Laurencia (f.k.a. "Shiba Inu" due to her reddish coloring and corkscrew tail, f.k.a. "Jenita") is a 3½ month old fuzzball who was rescued from a local shelter when her time was up. Her markings look like she has some red Abyssinian in her lineage. We're told that she's a very people-oriented kitten who loves to talk. She definitely was the more gregarious of the two during our two hour-long first meeting.

We're not sure what caused Laurencia's "corkscrew" tail, but it looks congenital. She also came to us with a slight runny nose/sneeze (maybe she's allergic to us), which is damn cute. She's already taken to curling up to sleep on my chest when I lay on the couch.

Allergies are more pronounced witht he reddish orange fur color. I have a cat named Mister Crookedtail who has four 90 degree bends in his shortened tail. I thought perhaps someone had slammed a door on his tail as a kitten, but the vet told me it is a spinal defect and not as rare as folks think ... tail anomolies are spinal defects. Crook, BTW, is an extremely intelligent cat, and vocal only when he is giving orders or asking where everybody has gotten off to ... though neutered he’s the alpha male of my two guys. I have a large orange mixed-breed (Goose) who is six years younger than old Crook who is sixteen now. Your girls are beautiful and very alert!

They look like great cats. I’m glad to hear that they were both rescued.

There are no better cats than rescues. They seem to understand that we picked them for a reason.

My favorite cat was a stray to wandered onto our front porch and just stayed. He was a pure white cat who understood just how good he had it. He would take walks with my dad and stay at heel like a dog.