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9. My daughter got a kitten while a college student

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 09:45 PM

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She was studying art history and called him Monet. Many years later she had him declawed, so of course we added the first name and he became DeClaude Monet.

I named my rescue hound Tricksy because she was so good at spiriting food off my plate when my back was turned. I always liked that term from LoR.

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