Miss Carnation

MY cat love story started way before Sophie. Here's how it started... Dobie Some 3 years ago we lost our cat tragically.  From the looks of it, Dobie tried to jump from our fence to the ground but her collar got caught by a crooked chicken wire  hanging her to her death. This is not a good way to start a story but that's what happened..and I hate sugar coating. I was devastated.  I rescued Dobie on a stormy day 2 years prior. I heard "meaows" from under a concrete bench in a sari sari store near our house. I just can't ignore that plead for help so I took her home. Fast forward 2 years later, I lost her. While my family had 3 dogs already, my household felt incomplete without a cat.  Several weeks later,  I knew I had to get myself a kitten...Where else can you get cats in the Philippines but in the streets. We (Jino and I) rounded up our main and side streets but no stray kitten was in sight.  We were on our final block head...

My Aspin Gwangsy, always has a plastered smile on his face   whenever  I'd  come home.   Looking into his "smirky" face,   it's  as  if he's  saying,  "I knew  you'd come b ack  ha! ha!  I  was  right!"   It's  almost  as if he's too  proud of his wit  that he  thinks he's wiser  than  me. Well, at  least  that's what  his  smile  looked like. 6 months ago, one sunny morning,  Hubby told me almost in a hush that  Manong Cesar, the village handyman has  puppies inside a box. Curious, I checked out the puppies myself and fell in love in one of the two tiny brown blue-eyed puppies.  Pedigree Dog Food! Mang Cesar lives in a makeshift temporary home, his  only means of living was fixing whatever is broken in  households inside our small village. I asked Mang Cesar if I  can have the male...