The Dodge City Gang

In the summer of 2003 we took in a stray cat who expressed her gratitude by presenting us with four adorable kittens. When she first wandered in we named her Miss Kitty & she only weighed slightly over five pounds.   None of the no-kill shelters had an opening so we decided to board her at the vet to avoid getting attached to her.  After a month we still hadn't been able to get her into a shelter. The vet noticed that Miss MissKitty'sBabies-.JPG (5845 bytes)Kitty's tummy had increased in size so she did an ultra-sound & sure enough Miss Kitty was pregnant.  The vet called & congratulated us & informed us we were going to be grandparents.  The vet clinic was not equiped to accomodate new-borns so we had a choice of aborting the kittens or bringing Miss Kitty home & allowing her to have her babies. I think it is obvious which choice we made. Then the plan was to find homes for all of them but it wasn't long before we were so attached we could not bear to part with them.  We named the kittens Calico, Matt, Dillon, & Smokey. 

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CHOW TIME: Miss Kitty nursing her babies Calico, Matt, Dillon, & Smokey.
Cali was born 7 September 2003 & the others were born 8 September.

 

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Cali, Matt, Dillon, Smokey.  Photographed: Dec. 2003

 

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Smokey (Only lower half is showing) Matt, Cali (Calico - with one eye open)
& Dillon (can only see his white-tipped ears)  Photographed: 5 Nov. 2003

 

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Calico ~ We call her Cali for short.

 

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Cali - photographed: Dec. 2003

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Cali - photographed: Dec. 2003

 

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Matt - photographed:  Dec. 2003 

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Dillon - photographed:  Dec. 2003


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Smokey carrying his yellow toy ball -Photographed:   Dec. 2003

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CHOW TIME:  Dillon, Matt, Cali & Smokey.
Photographed: Nov. 2003


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Curious kitties want to know - Where does all that water go?

The Kitty Quarters - 2005


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4 "gang" members in the "Kitty Quarters"  April, 2006



Crocked Calico Kitty
Photographed: Sept. 2008


 


 

Believe it or not my cat Dillon built a fort out of a card board box. I had taken the box apart & laid it flat on the floor for the cats to play with. Dillon kept pushing on it until he got it situated as you see in the picture only it was curved a little bit more. Then he sat behind the fort wall scanning the living room as if he were standing guard. lol Every once in awhile some of the other cats will do the same thing.  And the dogs seem to know to not go inside the fort.

 

         

 

 

This is "The Gang" at chow time. Yes, Miss Kitty eats her food in a tunnel. I got tired of the others always crowding her away from her food bowl. They always wanted to eat out of the same bowl their mommy did. So I took one of the condo tunnels, put it on the counter top & put her food bowl in it & it works great! She seemed to immediately know why/what it was for & seems to enjoy eating in a tunnel. She has been doing this for years. :) From left to right are: Miss Kitty, Cali, Smokey & Matt. Dillon doesn't reside with "The Gang" anymore as for some unknown reason Matt wants to beat him up & kill him. So now Dillon has his own room which he often shares with Tom & Jerry.

 

Cali (far right in picture) is featured in the lobby of Pharmax in Farmington:  “Thank you for wanting to display my picture in your lobby.   Maybe this will be my big break to make it to Hollywood.  My favorite things to do are watching out the backdoor to see all the wild birds & silly squirrels that come up to the bird feeder.  Sure would like to have one for dinner sometime.   I share my home with nine other cats & two dogs.  I really like to torment my adopted brother, Tommy, & make him go hide under the sofa.  He’s such a sissy!  I have my very own room which I share with my mommy & my brothers.  We are known as “The Dodge City Gang” cause my mom’s name is Miss Kitty & my brothers are Matt, Dillon, & Smokey.  We have our own web page so you can see more pix of us there – even a picture before we were born.  My favorite treats:  All of them!!”


 

Matt - Dec. 2009

Smokey - Dec. 2009


Dillon in his favorite cardboard box - 24 Feb. 2010