11/15/2024 – Friday Flashback with Tessa

Today, we’re flashbacking with baby Tessa. What can we say about our tuxie girl that we haven’t already shared? She’s been rowdy and prone to trouble since the very moment Mom took her by her scruff from the 2 young girls the 3-pound Tessa was attempted to maul. One small kitten carrier and a few band-aids later, the girls asked if we’d take her in. Nothing much has changed since that April day in 2012. Occasionally, Tessa has to go into a carrier (vet checkups) and she doesn’t mind when Mom grabs her by the scruff of her neck to do it.

The story back in 2012 was Tessa was found crying and wandering the streets and the girls were looking for her home. Tessa had remarkably clean and soft paw pads for a kitten wandering the streets, Mom remarked, and then, girls’ story evolved so much, we never got a straight answer. Weeks we spent earnestly looking for her real home was never found and most likely, to those girls and probably Tessa too, the only thing found was that we were suckers for “lost” kittens.

And so, that wild gray and white tuxie girl joined our family and became the tuxie terror other cat owners warned us about.

The odd thing was, that for the briefest of moments weeks before, Mom thought she might want to look for a black and white tuxie kitten/cat to adopt and odder still, there didn’t seem to be any black and white tuxie cats or kittens available to adopt at the time in our area or across the river in another state. It was like tuxies were the IT cat at the moment and every single one had been adopted. “Just wait until kitten season,” we were told and so we sighed and Mom thought maybe she’d wait or not and maybe she’d look for an orange girl kitten instead. That’s another story for another time.

Three weeks later, not black and white, but a gray and white tuxie was plopped into our lives and weaseled her way into our hearts. Today, Tessa’s still a handful and something tells us that was her plan all along.

You can read more about Tessa and the rest of the Colehaus Cats on our About page. She’d probably like that.

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2023 – Three Word Wednesday
2022 – No post
2021 – ManCat Monday
2020 – No post
2019 – Friday Fibs
2018 – No post
2017 – No post
2016 – No post
2015 – No post
2014 – No post
2013 – That Sleepy Time of Year
2012 – No post