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#9: Gabriel a.k.a. Spike

nekoewen

on Oct. 20, 2011

A while after we adopted Mog, a stray cat gave birth in our basement. We gave the kittens away (my sister Rachel still has one; she named him Bart), and my little sister Debbie insisted we adopt the mother cat, who she named Arlene. Debbie took Arlene with her when she moved out, and we ended up getting another cat to keep the cat population at 2. Gabriel was really crazy and rambunctious at first, but he and Mog got along really well. He’s pretty friendly as long as you don’t do certain things he doesn’t like (like picking him up), but he’s pretty incorrigible about doing certain things. He’s broken the top grate on my AC, peed on a lot of things, and generally made a mess of things.