[trisham]

Poor little kitty! She’s lucky to have you.

[TheOldLady]

She was a stray, and I called her Shadow because she would follow me everywhere when I went outside, but she would run from Hubby (WTHeck?).

I held out from feeding her, so as not to de facto adopt her, for about 30 seconds.

First the feeding, then putting out shelter for her, and finally in she came (it was April, but still really cold that year).

We took her to our former vet who pronounced her old enough to spay, but when she opened her up, she discovered that Shadow had never gone through estrus. The idiot spayed her anyway, and she has remained only slightly larger than kitten sized every since. She is a cute one, though.

Our current vet is several orders of magnitude better than the old one, even though it's an extra ten miles one way to get to him.