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Gracie
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Age: |
Five months old
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| Gender: |
Female
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Kind: |
Domestic Shorthair
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| Home: |
Vernon Hills, Illinois, USA
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This
is our kitten Gracie. We adopted her on our anniversary just four days
after our sixteen-year-old cat passed away. The shelter we adopted her from
estimated her age so she is just five months old.
What a difference between having a sixteen-year-old cat and a
five-month-old kitten. Gracie is into everything, loves to play with cat
toys & anything else she can find and moves at the speed of light. She
is also very sweet and once in awhile will sit on your lap and purr, but
mostly she loves our five-year-old labrador, Pearl. The two of them bonded
on the first day we brought Gracie home. Everywhere you see Pearl you
usually see Gracie. She even lets Pearl lick her until she is all wet. When
Pearl stops, she paws at her to keep it up.
Unfortunately, a month, a black lab mix passed away so it was a good thing
that we had adopted Gracie. She is such a good companion for Pearl and always
makes us laugh too.
She has the softest fur of any cat/kitten I have petted. We named her Gracie
because of her all gray fur. She is very small and weighed 4 pounds 11 ounces
when she was at the vet recently.
The shelter we adopted her from had us sign a contract that she would be
spayed (which we would have done anyway) and they paid for it through a local
vet. She was spayed and came home that evening. We locked her in our master
bath (with a nice kitty bed, food, water, litter and a scratching post) so
that she wouldn't be too active and the next morning to our surprise, she had
taken out her own stitches. I took her back to the vet, they put staples to
hold her incision together and she had to wear the e-collar (plastic cone) for
ten days so that she wouldn't lick the staples. Also, because she lets Pearl
lick her, we had to keep them separate for those 10 days so that Pearl
wouldn't lick Gracie's incision. She healed nicely and has run of the house
again.
She loves to investigate every inch of the house and always keeps us on our
toes. We can't imagine life without her.
See more images of Gracie!
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