01-16-2005, 03:03 PM
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Re: Not until it's gone...
Well, I never really had a pet....but I did find a family of kittens in our backyard. I found them one glorious day when I was mowing the yard. Lucky for me I was looking on the grass in front of the lawn mower or I would have ran over them. So I took in the family of kittens and asked if I could keep them atleast until they were grown, reluctantly my mom said yes.
They were adorable, They were still nursing. The mother we named Snickers because she was black, brown, and a carmely color. Her three kittens were black, light orange, and dark orange. The names were Felix, Oscar, and Garfield-the dark orange one had long hair so it made him look fat,lol. But out of all of them Oscar was my fav.-he never ran away when you came to pet him, he was just plain sweet. So this continued for about a year-and my mom said we had to give them away. I cried. My mom drove Snickers to the humaine society *(she was meowing mornfully the whole way)* and I never saw her again-but my mom told me when I was little that she had found a family and that they would not kill her untill they did-yeah right....So eventually we had to give away the kittens as well. But I had had it. I was never going to let my mom take them away. (the only reason why is because our whole family is allergic to cats/animal fur except me-lucky huh?) So my mom let me keep one. I choose Oscar-but I was not happy to let the others go. Never saw them again either.
So for about 3 year s we had Oscar. My mom let me keep him fortuaneatly. But I could not let him in the house, I had to feed and play with him on the back pourch. So everry day before school I would go out to feed him and check up on him in the morning. He would always go outside after breakfast for about an hour and explore,and then come back in as if to check up on me.lol. But one day he never came back after breakfast. My mom took me in the car looking for him but we never found him.......
That was about 5 years ago....I have never seen Oscar since.
I cried for a while but I had to let him go my mom said. So I guess you are right, Miniblin, you do not realize how much you miss something until its gone...and I am never going to get another pet. Because I am still waiting for Oscar to come back.
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