Autumn

Hi, you're here ! Nice to see you again, I know you'll enjoy my page. I'm much prettier than all those BOYS !

I know Mommy and Daddy think I'm the most gorgeous girl in the world. They must be right because I think so too!

My Mommy is the best mommy in the world, I'm a real Mommy's girl. I sit on her paper to help her read it every morning, I don't get off until it's really nice and wrinkled. Sometimes I wake her up in the night to pet me, she grumbles but she always does it. I love to play "stalk" with my Daddy. He thinks he can hide from me but I always get him. I have lots of energy and love to run. Hunting is my favorite activity.

When I was three months old the people who had my kitty mother took her and me and my two sisters to the kitty jail. They put my kitty mom in another cage and us three sisters in a cage together. I hated it! I still hate cages! I get very upset if I have to go in one. I hissed at my sisters and had a really hard time that night. The next day my Mommy and Daddy came and rescued me from the cage. Mommy held me and I cuddled up close and purred. They promised me I never have to go back there again.

They named me Autumn because I'm the color of candy corn and they got me in late August, just when fall was in the air. They call me "Audie", "Aud", "Bug Faced Kitty Cat" or "Lovebug Kitty" sometimes just "Bug" and "Sweety girl".

I hate to go to the vet. I hate that place very much. I hide in my box (Mommy doesn't put me in a cage, she knows how I feel about them) and am very quiet. When they take me out of my box and the vet comes in I start to hiss. I hiss the whole time the vet is there, even when she isn't touching me. Mommy tell's me this is embarrassing.

My biggest adventure was when my Mommy was going to grill some shrimp. She has a gas stove with the broiler on the bottom. She opened the broiler and took out the pan. She left the door open.

I'm a cat, I had to find out what was in that little place! I looked in and then when no one was looking I went in. Mommy turned and saw the door open, so she shut it. Then she turned the broiler on! In a couple of minutes it got pretty warm in there! I started to meow, but no one knew where I was. I decided I needed to howl real loud. So I did. I heard Daddy yell, "you shut Autumn in the broiler"! Then Mommy yelled, "let her out". The broiler door came open and I just streaked out of there! I was smoking! I ran for the bedroom with Mommy hot on my tail. She scooped me up and kept on going to the bathroom where she put me in the bathtub and turned the cold water on me! Can you believe she did that? Well I'm here to tell you she did!

She was muttering things like, "we're going to be spending the night in the kitty emergency room, burn unit", and "do they put people in jail for broiling their cats"? She wrapped me in a big towel and hugged me tight. I wanted out, I wanted to see if there was any damage to my lovely fur coat. She finally let me out and then she started looking as hard as I was. We didn't find any burns, yes! I did lose my eyebrow, curled up my whiskers, got singed fur all down my side and burned the hair off the inside of my ear all on my right side. I also smelled terrible! For days I had to lick and lick to try to get the smell off. I'm proud to announce my fur, eyebrows, ear hair and whiskers are all back to normal.

I like to be up on things, I like to be high. One day I was walking on the front porch rail and slipped off, I was hanging on my rope. I started to wiggle and wiggled right out of my harness. Daddy was there and trying to get me but he wasn't fast enough. I ran away, I was scared. I ran into the street but that was scary so I ran into the back yard and hid by the back porch. Mommy and Daddy never use the back door, I don't know why I went there, they couldn't find me. I could hear them calling me but I was too scared to move. Finally Mommy came and picked me up. I was so glad to see her.

Another day I climbed onto the front porch rail and jumped up onto the roof of the carport. I like it up there because it's flat and in the sun, really good for rolling. I was rolling around up there, enjoying the sun, and I rolled right off! I hung myself again! This time my Daddy was right there and he rescued me right away. Thank you Daddy!

Autumn

A darling little girl!