A STORY FILLED WITH LOVE

by Guiny

Just few weeks ago I heard the story of a wonderful kitty that I admire a lot, and everyone here has heard about her too. I think none of us really know much about her, so I’m going to try to explain to you a bit about her life, that way some of you might even guess who she is, because I am not going to tell you right away.

The story starts on a farm close to a little town in USA, there was a mama cat who suffered an accident, she was struck by a car and she died. The humans at the farm knew there were little kittens, about two weeks old, hiding somewhere. After looking all over the place, they finally found a pile of kittens in the barn. Most of them were dead due to starving; two of the kitties were alive, but in very poor health. One was white and the other one was dark gray.

The farmer called a relative that lived in the little town, and this human took the two little kittens to her neighbor. That was about 12 years ago. With the help of the vet and a tiny little bottle the kittens started eating. The human kept them on her chest during the first night, trying to give them love and warmth.

Unfortunately the white one was very weak and died during the night. Our friend had a strong heart and she wanted to live, and although everything that could be wrong with a kitten was wrong with her, she kept eating (she compares herself with a tiny little pig) and began getting stronger.

Right now she is very well known with just her first name, but at the very beginning she used to sign her name with the Orphaned Kitty tacked on the end, because her furmommy died as I just told you.

When she discovered the BFCC and CLAW, they took her under their wing, befriended her, adopted her and made her understand that she was no longer an orphan kitty and called her just by her first name. That was the proudest day of her life.

There are 6 members of her family, Meowmie, her son that is not a kid any more, the boyz and the girls (including her). They have all lived together for about 10 years now and it works real well, except for the boyz, they are a real pain... well so is her girl sibling for that matter. She likes her meowmie’s son a lot, and of course she loves her Meowmie. She has a wedwink you know, they got winked on December 30, 1999. His name is Day-Late and he is just the best wedwink there is. He says she is high maintenance, whatever that is, and her Meowmie agrees with him. But they still enjoy each other and talk almost every day.

She is the Diva of her house; it is a hard job keeping everyone in order. One of the boyz is twice her size, and he doesn't take orders very well at all, he will just box her ears and keep on walking. The other one of the boyz is eager to please, so he is easy to deal with, but that girl sibling, in the eyes of our dear friend, is one spoiled kitty. Because her sibling was orphaned at the age of 1 day and her Mom raised her entirely by herself. Her girl sibling thinks she is special, she thinks their Mom belongs just to her. Then when she had that terrible surgery on her leg and our meowmie had to care for her like a baby for so long, well Spoiled wouldn't even be a good term for her now, explained our dear friend.

She is the oldest of all the kitties in her house, the boyz, who are Turkish Van twins are two years younger than her, and 10 days younger than the boyz comes her girl sibling, who is the baby of the family. Although this sibling is the youngest, she doesn't care about any of the rest of the household, she just likes her Meowmie. Our special friend loves her Meowmie best, but if her lap is full our friend will sit with meowmie’s son, he is pretty nice to her too. One of the boyz is a daddy's boy and pouts when meowmie’s son goes away camping or scuba diving for the weekend. The other Turkish Van twin is the meeter and greeter of the house and well, he just loves everyone equally.

DO YOU ALREADY KNOW WHO AM I TALKING ABOUT? If not, keep reading, it will be a nice surprise.

A couple days after her arrival at her forever home, she started to flourish and her meowmie gave her a bath. Her meowmie was so surprised to find under all that dirt and grime the prettiest calico she had ever seen. They have been fast friends ever since.

Her meowmie didn't name her Jessie, it was given to her by the lady that found her after her furmom died. She said she looked just like “her” Jessie, and so the name stuck. Her meowmie didn't change it after she went to live with her and now she only thinks of her as JESSIE.

She has been with her human since she was two weeks old, now she is 12. Getting to be an old lady her meowmie says. But it has been a good life and she has been very happy. Everyone says she is spoiled, but she leaves that title for her girl sibling, SassyJazmine. Jessie is very pampered tho, she has a special bed in almost every room, and now that she is having trouble jumping up on top of things, there are little step stools near her favorite bed on the dresser by the window and at the foot of her Mom's bed so she can run right up there and take a little nap. Right and Left are her boyz siblings; Left is totaly Jeff's baby, Jeff of course is meowmie’s son.

They live in a little town called North Fort Myers; it is on the Caloosahatchee River that leads into the Gulf of Mexico. Fort Myers is a resort town on the Gulf of Mexico on the west side of the state, Miami is right across the state from them on one east side of Florida. During "Season" most of the residents stay home and tend to business, because everything is filled with tourists, when they all go home around April, that is when Jessie and her family get to enjoy living in Paradise. That is what her mom calls Florida, “paradise”. The summer is hot and humid and it rains every afternoon but in the winter it is wonderful, the weather is warm, the skies are blue and it is just lovely.

Jessie was new to CLAW, and in awe of everything. She had a Big Brother named Alabaster, a very nice cat, who told her they were looking for an editor for the Zine and urged her to apply for it. She was afraid to try because she didn't think Queen Midnight and Queen Tissy would think she was good enough. Unfortunately she stuttered when she got around the Queens because they made her so nervous, and she had to work with Niklos the Webmaster, who absolutely terrified her. But with a lot of urging on Alabaster's part, she sent in her application and would you believe it, they accepted HER! Jessie the Orphaned Kitty. After she figured out what she was doing, she discovered that she loved doing the Zine.

When CLAW closed, she was absolutely devastated, she loved CLAW, so she kept the Zine going, and it is still going strong today. But she gives all the credit to the members of the Zine, as she says they are the ones that make it what it is.

She has been doing the Zine for over 10 years now, before she got wedwinked, before the boyz and Sassy ever got to her home, most of her life, I guess you could say. She can't remember exactly when she started it, somewhere around 1998 she would say. She hopes she can get to do it for another 10 years. She has made such good friends that she feel she is the lucky one.

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