Tommie van de Moeshoek




Tommie is a kitten from our last litter: the litter of Mijntje and Doppie. Already on the third day of his life, he could look forward to a loving new address to live. Despite of that, Tommie stayed with us.


The little female friend that already lived at his promised home, was not so healthy for a long time. It turned out she had parasites in her bowels, and this might be a threat to the health of Tommie too. We didn't want to risk that. So the decision whether he would move or not was postponed week after week. The weeks turned into months. Months of stress, uncertainty, hope and disappointment over and over again.


As the time went by, the chances grew his little girlfriend would never be able to fully eliminate all parasites, and as a result explosions of growth in times of lessened immunity. With risks to her own health again, and for the health Tommie. Together we made the final decision March 30th 2008: Tommie stays with us for the rest of his life.


Tommie is a regular bully. He is definitely the youngest of the cattery. He think he can allow everything and enjoys to ruin the house together with his father Doppie. Shovel the soil out of the indoor plants, dangle in the drying laundry, tear toiletpaper and catch toes when the caretakers are fully unaware of what is going to happen.


But beside of that, he is a very sweet little fellow, that (at the moment of writing almost 6 months old) still likes to suck on the nipples of his stephmom Scar. Maar daarnaast is hij ook een heel lief katertje, dat nog steeds (bijna zes maanden oud op het moment van schrijven) niets liever doet dan sabbelen op de tepel van 'pleegmama' Scar. Scar herself never had a litter, but she rocked the cradle of de father of Tommie.

A kitten diary (only in Dutch) and a kitten photo gallery of Tommie can be found at our kittensite.