It still cracks me up every time I see the name you had for your most recent cat --
Fang-Face !! A wonderful original name, KM...:))
You missed my narrative a couple of months ago about the First Kitty I had at age 9 1/2. We were moving from Coral Gables, Florida up to Melbourne, and just as we were about to get in the station wagon and checking the house, a kitten dashed into the kitchen. The door under the sink was open - she found a scorpion that had been disturbed, and it bit her, causing paralysis.
With nowhere to leave her, my father relented and let me bring her along in my doll's cradle, lying on her back on a doll blanket for a cushion.
She was esconced on a blanket-covered cushion in a large wicker basket by the fireplace in the new house, and carried in it out to the sunshine periodically - eventually recovered.
My father had a vivid imagination, and came up with her name - -
Kitsuellen-katzenberger-burgalaroosky-borscovich - - sung rapidly without any pauses.
(Kitsue for short..:))
That has never left my mind to this very day!
Thank you for posting that story of the first kitty you ever had! I'm glad she wasn't permanently damaged by the scorpion bite; those bites are pretty toxic, even to some people.
It still cracks me up every time I see the name you had for your most recent cat--Fang-Face!!
LOL! My Fang-Face was a very sweet kitty, but he could occasionally get mad, and he was SO JEALOUS! I tried to introduce a new kitty that someone had dumped out here to him, and he was absolutely infuriated! He started growling at me, like a wild kitty, then he bit me as a punishment for DARING to bring another kitty into his happy home! Another time, when he was mostly an outside cat, he LEFT me for two weeks over another stray kitty! Someone stole the kitty, so Fang came home to me! Yet another time, he lived up to his name when he was at the Vet--they actually had to give him a shot to make him go to sleep before they could examine him! What a kitty! But he was the nicest, sweetest friend I ever had; I miss him!
