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Tweedledee (tea-stained nose) + Tweedledum (freckled nose). Two months old. Males ♂

Looks cruel, but they wouldn't keep still.

They were two of about 18 or more babies that their stray-cat mum birthed in the rain-gutter on our roof over the course of about two years (the mum was too street-wise for us to trap and spay). These two, together with their same-litter brother, Ditto, were washed down the drain-pipe when sudden rainstorms flushed out the rain-gutter! Luckily, we managed to fish them out of the drain in the back alley.
Our apartment was a small one in town, and we already had 6 kitties, so we couldn't take them in. They were free-roaming in the daytime, with access to the stairwell that led to the back-alley; we gathered them in the evenings and they are locked in our small kitchen for the night. We lost half of them ... to car accidents, and evil nasty cat-haters.
When Dee became a victim of some cat-abusers ... not once; but twice! (story told in Dee's pic below) ... we were galvanized into action. We gathered them and locked them indoors permanently, and took away their free-roaming days ... it was heart-breaking to see them suffering cabin-fever, looking longingly at the outdoors. We decided we had to get a place with a garden where they can roam safely...and that's how we ended up in our present place about 15 years ago.

Dee and his story ...

Update:

Tweedledum died 9 October 2012, aged 16 years 9 months.
Tweedledee died 22 August 2012, aged 16 years 7 months.

Description

Tweedledee (tea-stained nose) + Tweedledum (freckled nose). Two months old. Males ♂

Looks cruel, but they wouldn't keep still.

They were two of about 18 or more babies that their stray-cat mum birthed in the rain-gutter on our roof over the course of about two years (the mum was too street-wise for us to trap and spay). These two, together with their same-litter brother, Ditto, were washed down the drain-pipe when sudden rainstorms flushed out the rain-gutter! Luckily, we managed to fish them out of the drain in the back alley.
Our apartment was a small one in town, and we already had 6 kitties, so we couldn't take them in. They were free-roaming in the daytime, with access to the stairwell that led to the back-alley; we gathered them in the evenings and they are locked in our small kitchen for the night. We lost half of them ... to car accidents, and evil nasty cat-haters.
When Dee became a victim of some cat-abusers ... not once; but twice! (story told in Dee's pic below) ... we were galvanized into action. We gathered them and locked them indoors permanently, and took away their free-roaming days ... it was heart-breaking to see them suffering cabin-fever, looking longingly at the outdoors. We decided we had to get a place with a garden where they can roam safely...and that's how we ended up in our present place about 15 years ago.

Dee and his story ...

Update:

Tweedledum died 9 October 2012, aged 16 years 9 months.
Tweedledee died 22 August 2012, aged 16 years 7 months.