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When I got a call from a past customer that her Maine Coon named Sissy had just had kittens, I couldn’t wait to see them. At one month old, they are little balls of cuteness.

Pooh was adopted from the Animal Welfare League of Arlington and lives with Holly who you may have seen in this post.

I call this one Pooh Face

and this is Pooh Vase

Happy Pooh

Pooh with personality

Pooh in the house

Pooh in the Sun

and finally Dog and Pooh

(This last photo happened naturally.  Pooh and Holly get along swimmingly – they play together all the time.)

Not only do these beautiful animals have very unique names, they each had a very unique past before they were brought together to live under one roof.  Here are their stories as told by their human:

Hemingway was found in a Chinese village near Hong Kong when he was small enough to fit in the palm of a woman’s hand.  His left eye was already swollen with glaucoma when I adopted him.  The vet tried to save the eye, but it had to be amputated in the end to save Hem’s life.  Hem got his name, Purrnest Hemingway, from my favorite author.  Hem lived with me in Hong Kong, with his black tabby brother, William Shakespurr, until we all moved to Washington, DC, in 2000.

William died of diabetes five years ago, leaving Hem and me heartbroken and lonely.  So we contacted the SPCA of Northern Virginia (http://www.spcanova.org/index.php), who helped us find a black tabby kitten who loved adults cats.  That was J. Purr Morgan, who by coincidence was born in a flower box only a block away from our home in Adams Morgan.  Morgan and Hem loved each other from the moment they met.

Both my parents died in January.  After the loss of the only people who could ever love me unconditionally, it seemed like exactly the right time to add a dog to our family.  Angelina Jolie Barker, named for another person I greatly admire, was rescued from a high-kill shelter in Tennessee by K-9 Lifesavers (http://www.k-9lifesavers.org/), based on Capitol Hill in DC.  We like to say that Angie is a “coal miner’s dogger.”

This is J. Purr Morgan.

And this is Angelina Jolie Barker.

Ed is Tug’s older brother.  Here is Ed’s story as told by his human:

Ed was born in Occoquan, Virginia.  My friend “Ed” lives right on the river and in 1993 a feral pregnant cat appeared at his back door and gave birth to 5 kittens.  We went down and picked out our Ed and also found homes for the other 4 kittens.  They were all indoor/outdoor cats while living there.  After they got a little older the human Ed would catch a fish every now and then and present it to the mother cat and her kittens.  What a delicacy.  Ed has been in our home since June of 1993 and he has absolutely no desire to ever leave his house for the outdoors.

Special thanks to Tug and Ed for letting us into their world!