as small as a world and as large as alone

4:13am February 2, 2015

karalianne:

This is Flame, our new cat. Consensus seems to be that she is a torbie - a tortoiseshell tabby.

Flame is seven years old and had a rough start in life. She was hand-raised by a woman after being rejected by her mother and litter-mates. At some point she lived with a man who treated her really badly, so she is shy of men. She spent the last two years living with one of my friends (from NaNoWriMo), whose other two cats didn’t like her either.

We are really glad to be able to provide her with a home where she won’t be attacked by other cats for literally no reason.

She was named Flame because there is a small orange patch right on the tip of her tail. She is small due to the rough start. She is really snuggly and purry, and as long as my husband is sitting down she likes to sit with him. She has some kind of food allergy that we will get totally sorted out, but it looks to be a grain allergy. It causes her to overgroom her belly and her legs. Hopefully our home is calm enough for her and we can feed her safe enough food that all of her fur grows back.

We are also hoping that she turns out to be a good mouser. :)

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