Julie Crawford's Furry Friends
Three delightful cats, and a little hamster...
Julie Crawford is a knitter, photographer, poet, and maker of embroidery kits, courses and tutorials. She shares it all at her blog, Knitted Bliss.
I love the embroidery designs she creates for knitted garments.
Here she shares stories of her adorable rescue cats and super cute hamster.
So, over to you, Julie…
Princess Chonky, Mittens, and Socks the cats, plus Cheeky the hamster: Julie Crawford’s pets.
We had two senior cats pass away in 2023, and a little while after that I thought we could foster a cat in need.
Princess Chonky came to us through the Toronto Cat Rescue, after she had been abandoned. We think she’s about 9 years old, and she’s really sweet and just wants to sit next to you, and lay in the sunshine.
A month after keeping Princess Chonky, these two brothers were found as 7 week old kittens without their mom, and we started to foster them through Toronto Cat Rescue. They were so tiny when they came to us!
You’d think Princess Chonky would love them, but sadly she hates the kittens. I think she gets jealous. But they have each other and are happy, bouncy cats, currently about 9 months old.
Mittens is a Polydactyl, which means he has extra toes (extra beans!) and you can hear him coming because it's like he's got little tap shoes on.
Socks is a sweetheart. He loves to be near us, and chin scratches are his favourite!
We got Cheeky in 2022, because when my daughter was 4 years old, I was very distracted one day when she asked me about getting a bunny, and somehow I said, 'sure, when you turn 10."
Her animal of choice morphed over the years, and when she turned ten, she chose a hamster and named it Cheeky.
We are all utterly besotted with Cheeky, she is so delightful, and so smart!
We take her out of her cafe every evening so she can have running around time (it's not good for hamsters to just be in their cages for days on end, even if you have a great wheel) and she likes to play with the cats. Seriously!
What a delightful group of pets with such cute names! 😊
If you have a pet, what’s the story behind their name?
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