👋🏼 Hi! I’m Jenny and I wanted to share a little bit about why I started this account/blog combo. After all, we have our own Instagram accounts for our personal, why do a separate one for our cats? I’ll do my best to share as candidly as possible.
The day Lucas was included in the Studio Arts Festival in Irvine, we saw the signs that were advertising the Arts Festival updated to advertise a Super Pet Adoption. These signs were everywhere and the event called to me so much, I got tickets to the event without even telling Lucas about it.
Looking for kittens was something we wanted to try again because of how we failed the last time.
After our brother joined the Army, we took care of his cat, a Russian Blue tabby named Pizza.
For 4 years, she was in our care and even moved with us to San Francisco and back.
When we were back in Irvine, we saw one of our friends was looking to rehome a cat, named Lexi and we thought that maybe Pizza would like a friend.
But what we didn’t know was that because Pizza was the only cat at home, having a new cat come in so abruptly meant an unknown threat was encroaching on Pizza’s territory. Despite being Lexi being older and larger, she was also declawed, making her especially shy and Pizza especially suspicious.
she eventually moved to LA with our brother.
The very next day, we walked through and checked out all the adoptable cats. This was at the tail end of the event where many of the people and kittens were exhausted from the busy afternoon. There was one booth that noticed us and it was the Little Lion Foundation (LLF). We didn’t connect with the kittens at the event, but we were excited to learn about their community of foster parents and they also seemed to really care about their kittens.
When we got home, we discovered that the LLF had other kittens that were adoptable that were NOT at the adoption event. We reached out to inquire about two pairs of kittens
When we first started sharing to our family about adopting kittens, the first thing many of them said to us was some variation of…
Oh man, that’s going to be a lot of work.
Looking back, that was probably them showing us love because it IS a responsibility to care for pets.