{"id":3625,"date":"2014-04-01T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T02:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2014-04-01T23:43:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T03:43:22","slug":"happy-1st-birthday-ginger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/happy-1st-birthday-ginger\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 1st Birthday Ginger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last May, my Mom was out walking her dog when she spotted a tiny orange kitten on the side of a busy road in a canal. She caught the kitten and took it to the vet. It was healthy except for some (intestinal parasites which are common in outside cats) and she needed a foster home for it until it was free of the parasites and could go to a rescue group. I wound up being said foster.<\/p>\n

But…well. I wanted an orange cat my entire life. Ever since I was a little girl. And for one reason or another all the kitties who came into my life were NOT orange. And I just fell in love with the little fluffball and we wound up keeping her.<\/p>\n

Because she was so young when Mom found her, it was easy for the vet to give us a very accurate age. Counting back, it put her right around the beginning of April. I decided to make her an April Fool’s baby given the way she tricked me into falling for her. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

And so today, the little orange fluffer is one year old!<\/p>\n

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Ginger at about 10 weeks old, June 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ginger<\/a>
Ginger in the same “tube” of the cat tree just a few days shy of a year old, March 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And so you can see how surprisingly fluffy she really did turn out to be, here’s a shot of her from today doing one of her favorite things: sitting in the tub after I take a shower. (Hey, she was<\/em> a canal cat so she’s always had a weird affinity for water!)<\/p>\n

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Ginger sitting in the tub on her first birthday, April 1, 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Happy Birthday to my little orange Floof!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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