I was minding my OWN business one afternoon at my office and I went outside to my car. I heard a funny noise - thought it was the machinery from the construction lot next to our building. As I walked over I kept hearing it - weird noise - coming from one of two vans parked next to each other in the employee lot. Pretty soon I was on my hands and knees looking under cars and I figured out a cat was stuck in one of the motors. Long story short - 20 minutes, three female employees, and two very sweet construction workers later we pulled a tiny kitten out of the motor. The lady whose car it was in thinks it rode to the office from her home. She is in a rural area and "there are always strays around." The kitten promptly ran into some bushes and shrubs by our office. It stayed there yowling for almost 48 hours and after failing to catch it(picture me tromping around overgrown bushes at 11:30pm with a pen light and cup of milk), I called animal control to come trap it. We have a kill shelter here and since no one else would claim it...meet Madison Keeley. There was a big discussion/fight over the name - Alex and Katie like Maddie and Ryan insisted on Keeley so here we are.
Eric was not too pleased at first. I did enjoy the look on his face when I first brought her inside. He has LONG tried futilely to impose a leg-limit on our household..."okay Lori - no more than 10 legs at one time..that's it..." We've consistently broken those rules. Now he loves Keeley, though ... she is very sweet and great with the kids. He always seems to come around and he knew what he was getting into when we got married though he feigns innocence now. You can take the girl out of the country but you can't keep a girl who grew up with a raccoon, snapping turtle, garden snake, guinea pig, gerbil, a house mouse (Mom had a FIT about that one), a cat, and about 25 Labrador retrievers from loving and rescuing animals. Good thing we don't live on a farm with lots more room....yet.
Lori
