All About Muffin
This post is long overdue. I’ve been wanting to write about my cat for a long time because she is the BEST CAT IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. Now, we do have two cats… We love Charlotte. Like all cats, she’s funny and quirky and has her own unique personality. But she’s not very affectionate. Sometimes I wonder if she even likes us. We had her for about three years when we decided to add a second cat to our household. In addition to not liking us, Charlotte also hates all other cats. At least, according to the woman who gave her to us. She suggested that Charlotte should be an “only cat.” Our brilliant solution to this was to get a KITTEN. A little kitten would be non-threatening, and we could sneak her into our house without issues, right? My daughter really wanted a calico, so we went to the Good Karma Pet Rescue website and found a calico kitten named “Greta.” We contacted them, talked to the woman who was fostering her, and she arranged to bring “Greta” over to meet us. Well, as soon as she entered our house there was no way she was leaving. We immediately loved her SO MUCH and the kids renamed her Muffin. Her foster mom told us her history: Greta-Muffin and her siblings were found in a dumpster when they were a day old. Luckily a sanitation worker heard their mewing, and called the pet rescue. Only Muffin and one sister survived. When they were a few weeks old they got very sick with a respiratory infection. Here’s a picture from the facebook post at that time: SOB! Muffin was once a SICK DUMPSTER BABY. Again, we didn’t know this was going on at the time- we learned it all after we adopted her, became facebook friends with her foster mom, and went back to read her old posts. It’s incredible that Muffin and her sister survived! Muffin’s sister was also adopted a couple weeks later (again, we learned from the foster mom’s facebook page.) We’re so incredibly grateful to the pet rescue and foster mom who saved our little girl. We got Muffin in July of 2020, and here we are at Christmas: And here’s the cake I made for Muffin’s first birthday: One of the funny things about Muffin is her “meow.” It sounds more like “ngar.” We like to joke that she never had a cat mother so she never learned how to meow properly. And her meow (ngar) sounds extremely sad- “Ngar, ngar!” she’ll say plaintively, and we’ll go rushing over to her- “Don’t worry Muffin, you’ll never be in a dumpster again!” Muffin is now three years old (so, an adult in human years) but we still treat her like a toddler. She’s an incredibly affectionate cat- she loves to snuggle, and if you come to our house she’ll run to the door to greet you, and possible even lick your hand. So… how do she and Charlotte get along? Well, Muffin loves everyone and wants to be friends. Every single day she’ll run over to Charlotte happily, as if to say “Hello, best friend!” Every time, Charlotte hisses angrily. But Muffin is undaunted! She seems to believe they WILL be friends someday. Do you have a favorite pet? Did you have a favorite pet growing up?