The cats that rescued my family (Anniversary Post)

On February 2, 2009, I heard crying kittens very near the are where my computer is which is also near the windows, hoping their mom gave birth outside our house, I called our girl to check where exactly where the mom and the kittens are so we can give food and water. It was after 30 minutes of looking till we figured out the mom delivered in our ceiling.

On February 14, 2009 at 7 am, I was on my way to manila for a shoot and noticed a small cute cry outside our kitchen, I went out and I immediately saw a cute kitten that I instantly named "Una" (first) there was no question that me and my family will adopt her so given that, the name "Una" really fits since she's will be our first official cat... we've had stray cats before that my parents feed. but because of our previous dog companion, they just choose not to stay... by the way, I took a picture of what I saw and here it is!

Thought that was a surprise? wait till you hear this... after a long day of tiring but fun shoot with Ateng Faye... I arrived here at home at 4:30pm, only to find out that there's 3 of them! yes 3 kittens! first I didn't notice since they all blended in the stuff that was about to be thrown away! but yeah! my count was correct! there's 3 of them! to show you how they exactly look like when I saw hem, again I took a picture!

Here's a closer view!

From then on I immediately called them "Val Len, & Tina" (L-R btw, the cat on the right was formerly "Una") since I saw them on valentines day... It was so hard because first, I knew I was going to be the one in charge of taking care of them even though I had no experience on feline parenting hehe! (I was up for the cahllenge though!)

The very first weekend they spent with us as an official part of the family, one of my siters excitedly drove her way just to see the latest members of our household! (or new owners!?!!? hehe!)

my sister suggested to revice the name a littlebit and drop a syllable, change "Tina" to "Tine" since she was the only one who had a 2 syllable name... ok then I said. and here are the pics of that fun fun day playing with them! consider it our first family day!

Playing, playing, playing!

this is "VAL"

"Len"

("TINE" had the first solo pic above so its just right to give this space for the 2 others! hehe!)

I forgot to say that Val was the most fierce of the 3, she never let me carry her without her hissing me into fright. Till now she still is the most ferocious... she tries to drive away other cats beiliving the space now her own... it wasn't too long though before we earned her trust and win her out of hissing towards us when we go near her or try to carry / feed her...

Again, to others, Val was the most masungit! even to other people! even to the vet that performed their operation! yes I had them operated (spay) just last June, preventing them to heat and finally leave our house in search for a mate and produce dozens of babies.

Here are some of the pictures I took when I had them spayed...

(Len getting fixed 06.05.09)

They are now full time indoor cats since May 21, 2009, bought them a litter box, baskets and a whole lot of rags to sleep on and play with! or should I say murder! haha!

Going back to my family, I never thought we'd have pets again since Cha-cha died... My family decided not to have pets again beacuse it was just hard to face the fact that they will cross the rainbow bridge in the future no matter how much love you give. death is just simply unavoidable.

3 long months of mourning had past and here came along 3 kittens that literally fell from above and saved me and my family from further depression and utmost sadness.

to date, Val, Len and Tine are the love of our lives... they taught us not to be afraid to adopt new pets and love again.

(Tine 07.10.9)

(Val 07.23.09)

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