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19. Our Mouse and Simba were "brothers" from two litters born 4 days apart

Thu Apr 7, 2016, 06:35 AM

Apr 2016

in a house full of cats.

I answered an ad in the paper in Lincoln, NE in 1995 for free kitties. I went to this house--a little old lady answered the door--
and there were cats everywhere! The biggest cat I'd ever seen was sleeping in a chair--took up the entire seat of the chair--
and I suspect that was Mouse's father. Both Mouse and Simba grew to be 22 lb cats as adults. They were inseparable
best buddies their entire lives.

This is one of my few photos of them that survived our house fire in 2007. They were 12 years old at the time. Mouse
lived to be 14 and Simba 17.

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