Since my earliest memories of childhood we always had animal rescues of different types in the house. They ranged from numerous cats & dogs to horses, birds and even a crazy fun, loving & mischievous squirrel monkey called "Rubbish" for a few years.(I do not condone keeping exotic or foreign animals like this as pets at all & have a distaste for zoos but we rescued Rubbish from cruelty in a shocking household and unfortunately there were no sanctuaries for him to go to in those days as there are now. Naturally him being free in his native nature would have been first prize but was impossible and I tend to think we gave him his second best possible life in an animal crazy family of my single Mom, my two older sisters and myself. That little, massive heart guy gave me so much unconditional love, fun & games together and life lessons as a 7 year old child as every rescue of any type has always done for me. This never ceases to amaze me after what they were put through in their previous homes before coming into my life. To me, we as humans can learn so much from them and their ways.
"Chilling in the winter sun."
I currently have two cat kids that have been family for about 8 and 5 years each.Skollie (Afrikaans word that means gangster) is the older black & white one and his brother, the ginger, is Spook.
I refer to them as "The Gangsters" as they are constantly up to mischievous, good hearted fun & games together.
They were rescued from seperate homes under terrible treatment conditions and each took about a year of loving, understanding & taking care of before becoming what they are today, out of their shells and dropping the barriers around their beautiful true nature & unconditional giving of love, daily fun & entertainment and life lessons. After what they were previously put through it is totally understandable that they were like this and is mindblowing how forgiving they have been to me & other humans after what they were previously put through by others.
They provide daily love, fun & entertainment & life lessons to me as I mentioned earlier and definately rock my world.
Spook is definately a poser and is constantly popping up in different places to act like a model or statue. Each time I see it I get a warm smile & laugh.
They both definately have a sense of humour and often laugh at me hehehe.
The Gangsters heading out for the evening to cause fun mischief together.
Spook playing "hide and seek" with me.
Trying to start a game with big brother.
Skollie loving his tree.
Skollie and me contemplating life in discussion.
Thanks for reading and I hope you have enjoyed meeting my family:)
All photos used were taken by myself.