Happy Birthday Chance!!!!

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Chance,
Happy Birthday to you!!!

Today is our adoptive cat's birthday.  Chance began her life in Melbourne (Florida not Australia) in 1993.  Only Son-In-Law went to a pet store while attending college at FIT and Chance came home with him.

She spent her formative years with Only Son-In-Law and Only Daughter.  During a visit to the vets, Only Daughter adopted a second cat that had been left at the vets thinking the two cats would be great company for each other.  Despite the best efforts of Only Son-In-Law and Only Daughter, the two just couldn't be happy together.

At that time, Mr P and I had two cats of our own, one of whom would not have welcomed another interloper in her midst.  Fortunately, Only Son-In-Law's parents became her adoptive parents and cared for her during those teen years.  She was a happy girl to be the one and only in their lives.

In August 2008 both of our cats had passed away but we did have a Labrador Retriever who was a-okay with cats.  So when Only Son-In-Law's parents moved their household and could no longer keep her, we became her second set of adoptive parents.  She was tolerant of our Lab, Buck(ley) but blossomed after he passed away last July. She is quite a talkative cat and has routines that she expects us to follow each day including breakfast and dinner and sitting next to each of us for some petting. 

Some nicknames bestowed on her by Only Son-In-Law and Only Daughter - Chicky, Chickydee and Hippychick.  At our house she is called Princess and she will be with us during her golden and final years.

She didn't hate having the beads draped on her neck but she wasn't sorry when I took them off.  She has several favorite perches - atop a cover in a quiet corner of a bedroom and the back of the sofa in the family room.  She also luxuriates in stretching out on the rug in the kitchen to remind us it's soon time to feed her. I ordered her a new cat tree perch which is simply a bowl atop a scratching post since the one brought with her in 2008 has seen better days.  I hope at her age she isn't to finicky to make another transition but just to a new perch.

HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY TODAY CHANCE!!!