Let's Go For It

Alternate Title: "Look, there's an opening in the jobs section for 'two cute kittens'! Think we should apply?" ... by

Ditto (ginger)+ Tweedledum (ginger-and-white). Two plus months. Males ♂

They were two of about 18 or more babies that their stray-cat mum birthed in the rain-gutter on our roof over the course of about two years (the mum was too street-wise for us to trap and spay). These two, together with their same-litter brother, Dee (pic below), were washed down the drain-pipe when sudden rainstorms flushed out the rain-gutter! Luckily, we managed to fish them out of the drain in the back alley.

Our apartment was a small one in town, and we already had 6 kitties, so we couldn't take them in. They were free-roaming in the daytime, with access to the stairwell that led to the backalley; we gathered them in the evenings and they are locked in our small kitchen for the night. We lost half of them ... to car accidents, and evil nasty cat-haters.

When their brother Dee became a victim of some cat-abusers ... not once; but twice! (story told in Dee's pic below) ... we were galvanised into action. We gathered them and locked them indoors permanently, and took away their free-roaming days ... it was heart-breaking to see them suffering cabin-fever, looking longingly at the outdoors. We decided we had to get a place with a garden where they can roam safely...and that's how we ended up in our present place about 15 years ago.

Update:

Tweedledum died 9 October 2012, aged 16 years 9 months.
Ditto is still with us, and he is almost 17 years old now.

Update:

Ditto died 29 April 2013, aged 17 years 4 months.

Dee and his story ...