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Once upon a time, on October 5, 1995, a little black
kitty was born without a tail. Not only did he not have a tail, he also was missing the last piece of vertebrae in his spine
above his little butt. He was born along with three other kitties, one black boy with a tail and very slanted eyes, one black
boy with a crooked tail (his tailbones ended halfway into the tail, which made the rest of the tail curled like a pigs tail),
and one tortoise shell girl with one black foot.
All four of them were born on this huge pile of soil contaminated
with very hazardous heavy metals in Colton, California. Mom was black herself and she thought she found a safe spot for her
babies under the heavy plastic sheeting that covered the pile. It was warm underneath.
One week later, on October
11, 1995, lots of men came with heavy machinery to load the big pile of soil into trucks and take it away. They would have
been crushed to death instantly.
But one of the guys from the crew uncovered the pile from the plastic and saw
mom run away and then he found the four babies. He took them from the pile and put them near the sidewalk so that mom could
come and take them to a safe place. Mom lingered all day but was too afraid to go and get them. A stray dog was nearby and
the guy was afraid that the dog would kill them all. At the end of the day, he put the four furballs, who's eyes hadn’t
even open yet and they had no fur on their bellies and legs, into a paperbag and brought them back to the office in Long Beach,
California, where I worked at the time.
There I laid eyes on them the very first time. And fell in love with
them. So tiny and so precious, each one very special, and two of them little mutants. Mom was probably contaminated from the
heavy metals she had lived around and passed on defect genes to two of her babies. One was to become “NoTail”
and the other “Crooked Tail”. The boy with the slanted eyes was to be named “Chinese Boy” and the
girl with the fuzzy face “Fuzzy Face” that was later shortened to Fuzzy.
So there their lives with
us began.
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