The Illusive Laser Light

This is Goldie, Sid, plastic turtle, Nancy, and Babe, searching for that illusive laser light.

Lucky Little Dude McCloud

November of 2002 my oldest son saw a little kitten at work by the dumpsters and went to get him, but he ran away. Couple days later Mike was over by the dumpster and saw the little guy again and he was just so hungry and weak, he couldn't run. Mike took him home and fed him, kept him warm, put some flea stuff on him and he started getting stronger. They called the little guy Lucky.

When I was there after church one Sunday I took the little guy home with me since Mike couldn't keep him. I drove home with him cradled inside my coat and he decided I was his new mama. I called him Little Dude. He was just adorable, no bigger than a good sized spit wad. Grey, shiny, long fur and grey eyes.

Angie came over to visit one day and fell in love with him and called him MacCloud, since he was grey and cloudy. So I suppose his full name was Lucky Little Dude McCloud. :)  He sure was a little cutie pie.

New Additions

Mom, Angie (my niece), and I took one of our Girl's Weekend Trips to Beardstown and I was sure to remind hubby and son to NOT let Thomas in the house. Well..  they neither one listened and Thomas and Babe had a rendezvous without Bud.... the little Casanova. He was still a good lookin' Casanova, though.

In September I flew home with Mom to Florida and we stayed at a condo on Treasure Island. It was good. BEACH!!!  The day after we got down there Denny called and said Babe had babies... three little ones. We ended up  naming them Sid, Nancy, and Goldie.

Bud and Thomas

In the summer of 2001 a charmer cat came around, long fur, gold, handsome. We called him Thomas.

 He and Bud and Babe would play together and just have cool times. 

Thomas even taught Bud how to climb trees.

Bud was kinda scared at first... but he got to like it. He got rather pleased with the idea! 

Now Bud's a big shot who can climb trees!!

Bud and Babe

Bud still liked to sit on the monitor when I was working and I would lave a small blanket or sweater on my desk and he would curl up on or inside it and take a nap. But he also liked his Babe. They got to be pretty inseparable. They would nap together, play together, actually, Babe taught Bud HOW to play. He didn't really know how to play because he'd been in a cage his whole life until we brought him home with us.

One day Bud got outside. We were beside ourselves. He just wasn't an outside cat, he didn't know the ropes! We gotta FIND him! We looked and looked, called for him, walked around the yard, the neighborhood, got in the car and drove around a little further from the neighborhood, came back home. On the way home I got to thinking, when Bud looks out the window from my office or the front room he sees the house across the street and their yard, and I just bet he is over there somewhere. 

I stopped the car when we got in front of our homes, our's and the across the street neighbor's, got out and shined the flashlight around the bushes and such, and there he was. Under the large bush in his yard across the street. That's what he always saw outside so he considered it his. He was terrified, yep. So I took off my jacket, captured him, I wrapped him up in it so I could get him inside without being torn to shreds. He was THRILLED to be in his inside home!! He snuck out again but I knew where he would be. :)  Then he got used to going outside. He and Babe would play in the flowers and under the deck, loved it out there.

Babe

So after a month or so with Bud, we decided he needed a companion. A different companion than me. I was his main toy and I needed some time to myself! LOL  So we looked for another cat and found an adorable little striped kitten we named Bud's Babe. She liked the computer, too. LOL

Bud

When we moved to DeKalb in 1994, we had to find new homes for the pets we did have since we were going to be renting, so we didn't have pets for awhile. We did find a house and bought it the end of 2000 and we got Bud from the animal shelter. He'd been there his whole life and he was a year old if not older. When we got home I sat in a rocking chair and held and cuddled with him for three hours, bonding. He loved it.

He liked to hide under things, newspapers, blankets, paper bags, he loved to sleep in the bed with us, on top all the covers but under the top on, right smack dab in front of me with my arm over him. He liked to be warm. He liked working with me, too.

At that time I worked online at home for Sage Online/Multex.com (I LOVED it!) and Bud would sit with me at the computer. Sometimes on the computer looking out the window with his tail decorating my screen, other times on my lap and arms while I was typing. That's what these pictures are of, Bud helping me type.