A stray cat started hanging around our house. The cat was a light charcoal gray so I named her Stormcloud. I can’t believe Mom let me keep her, because that meant a litter box in the house. We kept the box right behind the kitchen door and I cleaned it with a pooper scooper.
Stormcloud was quite a sweetheart. She liked to snuggle and be petted and purr. One time however, she got scared by something while I was holding her. She clawed my arm really badly and sunk her claws deep into my shoulder. It really hurt! I screamed and cried and created quite a fuss. That made Dad pretty angry so he and Matt chased Stormcloud into Matt’s bedroom with a tennis racket and a golf club respectively. They made a lot of noise and so did the cat. Matt would still swear to this day that the cat ran up a wall and across the ceiling. Maybe so. I was just glad I still got to keep the kitty after that.
A few years later when we got Onyx the Wonderpooch, Stormcloud treated Onyx like her kitten. Stormie would lick Onyx to keep her clean, corral her from going into places she shouldn’t be, and snuggle her while she slept.
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