Mom Unplugged

TMT: The Attention Hog

Feb 14, 2008 Unplugged Authentcity

About a month ago I announced that we had a kitten. Roadie is about 8 months old and my husband, or rather Roadie found him, at a highway entrance.

Before I go on here is a picture of Roadie that I shared for my Wordless Wednesday .

Now on with the story.

Roadie was sitting at a highway entrance right where all the cars enter the the highway. My husband said he was wondering why traffic was creeping and horns blowing. Then he saw Roadie sitting down wagging his tail, and waiting to be chosen by someone. At first Rupert (my husband) passed him by; but being the cat lover that he is he went back with plans to take the kitten to a shelter.

Once he opened the car door and Roadie jumped right in, walked up to him and nuzzled his neck, Rupert was sold. He checked him for fleas, signs of disease, and such. From what he gathered someone placed Roadie on the side of the highway and he sorta found his way to the entrance. We checked to see if someone had reported him missing and no one had. IT seemed so odd because his coat was beautiful, he was friendly, and did not act like a street cat at all.

He was dehydrated and bony when we first got him but he was not afraid of us at all. He took to all of us within the first hour of Rupert introducing us to him. It was as if he just belonged.

Now being the attention hog that he is, Roadie, loves jumping up on the keyboards when I am working. I guess that is his way of saying that I have done enough. So I had my oldest son take photos of him sitting like a King while I was trying to get some work done.

By the way, Roadie got his name from my Mother. I was on the phone with her and gave her my ideas for names when she blurted out “Call him roadway because Rupert found him on the side of the road.”

When I told Rupert about it, he loved it but said we should shorten it to Roadie.