My cousin Lisa has been looking after a litter of kitties that she stumbled across and her stories of them and a skunk trauma reminded me of my brief adoption of kittens. Lisa and I found two in a garbage dumpster while living in Taiwan. They eventually got taken to a shelter when my allergies just couldn’t take it anymore. There was a woman who came yearly to the island and removed hundreds of unwanted animals back to America where they would be placed in homes. Our kitties were called Shinsho and Ban…names we derived from Shinshoban which was the name of our remedial English class we taught. These kitties were cute but doubly cursed. As you can see they had white paws...specifically four white paws each. White is a color associated with death in Taiwan and people usually would only wear it to a funeral. The number four in Chinese sounds like the word for death. Our kitties were doomed. And it's no wonder we found them in the trash. Read this for greater insight into cat superstition in Taiwan. Anyway they were adorable and fun and I miss them. I don't miss sneezing though.
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That article you attached made me so sad! And I suddenly felt like we needed to start adopting poor little kitties. We have a couple of mangey strays around our neighborhood here, too.
Too bad about your allergies. Maybe we should try allergy shots. I hear they are very effective!
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