I recently had a pet cat. I had been thinking about getting a cat for a while and then one night when I got home and in the winter, I saw something white running around someone's legs outside. I thought it was my neighbor walking her dog. But, when I got out of my car, the girl was gone and I heard a meowing noise. I look over and it's a white kitty. I sat down and patted the ground and she ran up to me. She ran in and out of my legs meowing. She was dirty and skinny and followed me up my stairs to my apartment door. I let her inside and she practically devoured the can of tuna I opened for her. I attempted to give her a bath - she even let me use the blow-dryer to dry her off - she just sat calmly in my lap. I was unsure if I was going to keep her or not, and hesitant to give her a name. But eventually, I decided to name her Yuki (snow in Japanese), as I always wanted to have a cat with a Japanese name and I thought it was ironic and meant to be that I was thinking of getting a cat right around that time and she just shows up outside.
Well, for a while she was a calm cat. But she started to terrorize my apartment. She would roll around in the cat litter and fling it all over the place. She shed like you wouldn't believe and there was white fur EVERYWHERE. I could feel it on my skin when working out. She was a funny little thing and loved to steal things. One time I looked over and she was walking away with my wallet in her mouth!! Another time I turned around and all I saw was my white iPod cord being dragged underneath the couch. But, her absolute favorite thing to steal and chew on... were pencils. I only had a few but she would find them and chew them up. If I was working out and I had a pencil lying there to log my excercises / reps, the second I left the room to do something I would turn around and my pencil would be gone.
Anyway, I am getting carried away with this story but I had to take her to the humane society as I really had no time to play with her and she was becoming more of an annoyance. Lately I have been cleaning and organizing my apartment a lot and last night I found a chewed up pencil underneath my bed. It really made me sad as I miss that little kitty a lot now...
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