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Four days after I'd trapped a pregnant feral that I'd been feeding for a while, she gave birth to four bouncing babies in my den, two boys and two girls. I already had two boys and wasn't planning on keeping any of the kittens, but they were so beautiful - pure white with blue eyes!

I wanted one of the two girls, so of course they were the first to be adopted. I planned to keep just one of the boys, but the other one was so antisocial that he ran from me for about four months! Definitely unadoptable to a stranger. Then one day, he casually circled me as I knelt on the floor, I ran my hand down his back and tail, and just like that, he became a love bug. Fully grown, he was too big to fit on my lap, so he'd lay halfway on.

We went through a lot with his health over the years: asthma, hypertension, renal failure, and through it all he was such a little trooper about getting his medicines. In the end, it was cancer that took my Indigo from me, just 10 days after his 17th birthday.

I later bought a car charm from this site and hung it from the chain that used to hold his IV bag... a day later, the angel wing somehow looped itself through the heart frame! A message of reassurance from heaven no doubt.

His brother has never had any health problems, and thus far, he's still going strong. I treasure every day that he spends with my little furmily, which now includes another feral rescue girl and her playmate, a lynx point.

Story submitted by Julia P. from Houston, Texas.

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