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When my daughter was a little girl, she wanted a kitten very, very much. Although I like cats, our schedules were crazy and I did not want to get a kitten at the time.

My daughter had a toy, a white kitty with a pink tail, and said she wanted a kitten just like it. I encouraged this and explained that although pink wasn't possible, we could look for a white kitten with a red tail. This thought appealed to her, since she has red hair.

In the back of my mind, I was thinking that red-point kittens might be fairly uncommon, and it would help postpone making a feline addition to the family.

Less than a year after I started singing the praises of a white kitten with a red tail, we happened across a kitten adoption fair. They had lots of kittens, and my daughter’s eyes grew wide at the selection. Thinking to head off renewed pleas for a kitten, I took a gamble and asked the attendant if they had a female white kitten with a red tail.

And of course, they did.

My daughter begged to hold her, and they brought out a sweet kitty that batted tentatively at one of her long braids and began to purr. I looked over at my husband, "Well, that was all I had…" and he hemmed, hawed, and asked for more information.

They gave us her card, which indicated that she had been abandoned in a cardboard box and fostered back to health. And, her adoption name was the same as my daughter’s! We took that as a sign and started filling out the paperwork.

We named her Pearl, and 12 years later, we can’t imagine life without her. She is still a very busy cat who gets into everything and is endlessly entertaining and endearing. Occasionally she curls up for a nap on my husband’s desk while he is working, with her head resting on his arm. What a great cat!

Story submitted by J Nace from Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.

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