The best cat ever

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That was my first cat (as an adult),my Jinx. The ex and I had bought our first house, and my friends at work called him and asked it if was OK to get me a kitten. He said yes, and they went to the shelter. Apparently it was a crazy ride, as one of the three is deathly afraid of cats and dogs, and was totally freaking out all the way to my house. He was super sweet. He would sleep under the covers right next to me. I called him my cuddle kitty. I have a lot of funny pictures of him with his face in a box, in a shoe, with him in the sink, etc. He was an indoor/outdoor cat, and he knew the sound of my car, and when I came home from work, he would come running (usually he was up on the roof) to greet me. One time he rubbed his head on the gutter, fell off, landed on his feet, and gave me that "I meant to do that" look. When he was about 6 months old, we got another kitten, Fluff, from one of my mom's friends. He lived in coyote country, and she was the only kitten who survived. She was not quite as lovable as Jinx, but she used to love to attack the ex's toes. In fact he let his feet hang out on purpose. I had just gotten another kitten, Pounce, an orange female, who showed up on my doorstep. She used to climb all over me to get to a piece of bread I was eating. That cat loved bread. She was less than a year old when Jinx got sick. He was just laying around, not himself, so I took him to the vet. Disaster, it was feline leukemia. My cats had all been vaccinated, but he must have gotten it before, or the vaccine didn't work. It wasn't routine back then to test for that. We had him in remission for a year, but after that he went downhill rapidly. He was only 5 years old. Fluff lived to be 16, and if some idiots hadn't let their German Shepherds out and she hadn't gotten out of the house (she sneaked past the in-laws at a birthday party), I think she might have lived to 20. Pounce wasn't as lucky, she got cancer under her tongue when she was 10.