Counting Kitties

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Last night we lay in bed and talked about various pets we had owned. I lose track of the number of cats and kittens we had growing up. At one point we had five siamese cat mothers. My mom was a type of hoarder.When I was little she did this with parakeets. I was eight or so when we had all the cats.She would try to make sure they all were bred to Siamese males, but one cat always avoided that. So all these mamas except her had tiny white kitties, cause that is how Siamese babies look. Her kittens were black and black tiger striped. Her name was Shari. One afternoon she went around and stole all the other babies and put them all in her box. Her problem was solved when my older sister had a friend with an orphaned litter of kittens. One of them was white. Shari was happy. Her non conformity was tragic in a way. She would go out and catch wild things and bring them home for everyone to eat. We believe she brought them a poisoned rodent or rabbit. Many of them became ill and died. We always had too many or too much of things that ended up costing us time, money and peace of mind.