I think this photo was in 1979.
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My second cat, Ginger. Tiger-taming the easy way. I think Gin had some Siamese
heritage as her nose was very straight, and her whole physique was Siamese
slender. She was a very pale red, really more of a fawn on cream. I think this photo was in 1979. |
 | Perhaps she was ashamed of her nose. She often slept with a paw over it. I think this was taken in 1982. She had various names including Djinrojek. |
 1977. Avocado green was in. As was orange, rust and brown. | 1979...Arrangement in Shades of Gold. |
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1979. Gin loved getting under the covers with me. This was particularly handy
in the days before Global Warming, although sometimes her little paws were
like blocks of ice. The bed cover is one giant 'Granny Square' that I crocheted
and crocheted and crocheted... |
 | Gin would get a chin inflammation from time to time.. some sort of virus that would lay dormant for a while and then come back. I'd get pills from the vet for her, and it would usually clear up in a few weeks. One year she needed to be treated but we were going on vacation. My aunt Anita came over every day to take care of the pets and give Gin her medicine. For years afterward Gin would growl and dive under the bed whenever aunt Anita came to visit, usually a minute before she arrived. Ginger had learned to recognize the sound of the car's engine and associated it with nasty pill-giving. The day aunt Anita got a new car and came over, Ginger went up to her and asked to be petted. |
 | 1982? For years Ginger was an 'only cat', but one day my brother Ken returned from working on a house-painting job with a pair of shivering damp kitten-sisters with bits of paint-chips in their fur. They hadn't yet had their eyes open. Ginger was not keen on these 'little rodents' as I could see she thought of them, but once they started to resemble cats she decided she was their mother. Here she is with Leela, the calico of the sisters. |
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This is another view of the same scene. Gin's chin
is puffed here, so I guess she was expecting me to give her another pill.
That would account for the irked look on her face. Hmm... I'd forgot how much I liked that crocheted cover...maybe some day I'll make another. |
| 1983 Ginger snuggling up to Dr. Who, and Mr. Spock. The year I got Leela and her sister Sarah Jane I went to a Dr. Who fan convention in Chicago while they were still tiny enough to need bottle feeding, and dad took care of them for me. Dr. Who was a British science fiction show that I was very fond of- two of the Doctor's female companions were Leela and Sarah Jane Smith, which shows where the cats names came from. |