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CATS, CATS, CATS and More CATS

I know that I have had more cats than this in my life, but some of them, I can’t remember anything about. Let me tell you about the ones I remember. I’ve tried to put them in the order that we had them.

Ingo

Was a white cat that just showed up one day. He was white and in need of nutrition. At first, he was very very docile. At the time that Ingo showed up, we were regularly singing the song Bingo. And in that song you drop the first letter off and sing the spelling without the “B”. My dad suggested we use that as the cats name. That is why we named him Ingo. I remember my sister carrying him all around the house. She was five at the time. Mother fed him some very good food and he could tell that he was getting better. One day I was sitting on the front steps watching him turn flips. Wish that I could have filmed that. But sadly Ingo was not really a tame cat. He eventually showed his true colors and ended up making my sister scared of him. He was always trying to scratch her and he almost got her eyes a few times.

Mavis and John

These two kittens were given to us by an older couple that attended the church where my father preached down in Fulton, AR. We named them after that couple. Those two were always playing right at the back door where the sun shined through that big window in the door. They loved sleeping in that spot where the sun shined. They also loved watching the TV. It was funny to see them chase the football players during the game.

Tigator

We had this cat for awhile. He was very energetic and was always running full speed from one end of the house to the other. Mother and I came up with his name. During Christmas, we had to keep the living room shut off from the rest of the house. If we didn’t, Tigator would run down the hallway at top speed, jump up on the back of the couch still at top speed. Then take a flying leap into the Christmas tree. We got tired of picking up that Christmas tree.