Alphabe-Thursday

For Alphabe-Thursday I chose for the letter N for Nickey, the cat - Not Nickey the monkey I wrote about  in another post.  Yes, I've lived with two animals named Nickey.  Neither which I've named.

                      How we came to have Nickey was kind of nutty.

When I was at the courthouse, I worked with a girl named Hazel.  Her and her family were moving I think to West Virginia.  She asked if I could take care of Nickey until she could send for him.  I said okay.   I was already married and we took him home. That was the end of that.  Never to hear from Hazel again. Ha!!  I don't know if I was naive or something happened that she never sent for him.  Since I didn't have an address or phone number for her I could never contact her.

He was a Russian Blue.  We probably had him at least 8 or 9 years.  He was de-clawed when he got him.  So, needless to say he was an indoor cat.

He used to sit and look out the window all the time at the neighbor's big tree. See the picture below that's the window he looked out.   One time he got out somehow and went right to that tree and got a bird.  I always thought all those years he was planning his strategy  if and when he ever got out, he was going to make it count.   LOL and he did.

While we had him, we got our first dog, Doc.  He was a mutt from someone my mom knew.

Nickey and Doc got along well.  Although Nickey ruled the roost, since he was there first.  They used to play together.

When my son came along, Nickey was banished to the basement for a while because I had heard the old wives tale about cats smothering infants.  He was probably down there for about a year and then he was allowed back upstairs.

He was a pretty good cat.  He used to play fetch with my husband. 

So if by some chance you read this Hazel - what the heck happened?

Go on over to Jenny Matlocks and see what others did for their Alphabe-Thursday http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2010/04/alphabe-thursday-n.html