Time For Tyler, a cat coming into his own Options

[kaylasmom]

Hi all,

After reading through some of your posts I decided to be a bit of a copycat. This thread is going to introduce you to my baby boy, Tyler Michael.

In May 1999, I was packing lunches for my hubby and myself. Hubby walks up and asks me to put a baggie of cat food in his lunch bag. In my typical smart*** way I replied that we weren't that broke yet and he could have a sandwich. He then confessed that he and a co worker were feeding a stray cat on the loading dock in hopes of catching it, they were afraid she'd be hit by a tractor trailer.

Fast forward to June. The co worker had caught the cat and took her home. Turns out she was blind and pregnant. We discussed taking one of the kittens. I was apprehensive of Kayla's reaction and all of the remaining kittens were Orange male tabbies. As my Kissy had just died 4years previously I didn't want a cat that would look like him. But we went to the co workers house with our carrier and set it down in the room with the kittens. They were precious but again, I did NOT want an Orange male tabby. We decided to just head home empty handed.

When we picked up the carrier to leave, there was a kitten curled up sound asleep. We took him home.

To be continued...

[kaylasmom]

Thanks, moonbeam. I have to post in bits and pieces, things are hectic right now but I real the need to do this now instead of waiting for the luxury of more time.

Now we had this tiny kitten in our home. It was hate at first sight for Kayla. She never really fully accepted him as part of our family. At the time we lived in a 3 story townhome. Kayla did not come downstairs except for food and litter box for 3 months! Tyler's first Christmas he decided to climb our tree. Unfortunately for him it was artificial. I was spending lots of time upstairs with Kay, but even though we had decided Ty was my hubby's cat, Ty had other ideas. It was mayhem when they were in the same room.

Tyler never gave up trying to befriend Kayla. Eventually they reached a truce. I was Kay's person but she would allow Ty to be near us. About this time my husband began spending more time on the road. He was a mechanic when we got together but now he was driving the rigs instead of fixing them.

Fast forward to April 2000. We had Kay. We had Ty. Now we added a rescued 14 month old lab/shep mix to our family. We named her Ciara. Kay and Ty now had a mutual enemy! Good for them, bad for Ciara. They did settle down after hubby began taking the dog with him on some of his runs.

More later.