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My mom drives a city bus for a living and one day she pulled up to the transit center and a little white kitten was sitting on the sidewalk next to her parking place. She asked the passengers getting on if the kitten belonged to them, but he didn’t seem to belong to anyone.
She did another round and the kitten was still there when she got back to the center. She told the kitten that if he was still there on her next round, she would take him home with her.
Well, sure enough, when she got back the kitten was not only still there, but there was another kitten with him! Mom brought them both home with her. The second kitten, a female, was sickly and very small. None of us thought she would live, but we kept her anyway; she at least deserved a nice place to live out what time she had.
We named the male ‘Pip’ because he such a wide-eyed little orphan of a thing. The female was named ‘Tugger’ after the Rum Tum Tugger from ‘Cats’ because we had just seen it and he was Mom’s favorite character.
Tugger didn’t die as a kitten, as we had expected her to. She lived a few years and had two litters of kittens before we managed to get her spayed. We kept those kittens as well, though we fully intended to give them away.
My family has a soft spot for cats. She got sick and when we had to take her to the vet the next day, as our area doesn’t have an emergency service. By that time, it was too late and she had to be put down. It was heartbreaking and I still miss her.
Pip is still with us, and is probably the sweetest, gentlest cat I have ever known. He loves to snuggle and makes the cutest trilling sound when he gets purring hard. We still have Tug’s kittens as well. Our family was made better the day mom found those two kittens waiting for her bus. It’s like they were meant to be ours.