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Sierra
We found Sierra at the Town Lake Animal
Shelter. She was so pretty, it was hard to believe she
hadn't already been adopted. All they could tell us about
her at the shelter was that she had been a stray, and was about
six months old. She had to be spayed before we were allowed to bring her home. But the stress from the spaying resulted in her getting a very bad upper respiratory infection, so she spent the first several days in the hospital before coming home for the first time. Because the Town Lake shelter euthanizes animals who are not adopted, we might have saved her life when we decided to add her to our family. Sierra was lucky; however, every month about 800 dogs and cats at this shelter are not so fortunate. You won't find many action shots of Sierra on these pages. One of her nicknames is "Meat Loaf Cat" as this is her favorite position. Even though she's been with us for many years, and gets nothing but lovin' she's still skittish. When she is doing something that might be photo worthy, she bolts at the sight of the camera, or nearly anything else! We think that before we adopted her she may have had some very traumatic experiences when she was very young and they are still ingrained on her lil' punkin head. So we just appreciate her for who she is and know she'll run in fear from the dreaded newspaper, plastic wrap, or just a tall human walking by... In Sierra's younger days she loved to play
fetch and actually brought the ball back to us so we could throw
it for her to retrieve again. However, she discovered through her
online conversations with other cats that this was really dog
behavior and made the other cats look bad. Today she will still
chase the ball, but has trained her people to do the fetching.
She chases the ball, sniffs it then waits for us to go get it and
throw it again. Who says training doesn't pay off!
Sierra relaxing on the cat porch. (July 2001)
Sierra relaxing on the bed while Diego
practices his combination
Sierra (October 2002)
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