Entrant's Name
Brianna Voltz

City
Alexandria

Your Pet's Story or Bio
William, along with his brother Prince (a black cat) showed up on our deck during a Halloween party we were having last year. We live in a pretty rural area, and suspected that they were babies of a feral female tortie we'd been seeing the past year. We fed them a can of tuna and went back to the party. They started showing up every day and so we started buying canned cat food, and by December we were able to feed them with our back door open sitting a ways away from them. As the weather got colder, we started to let them come into the house to eat, with the our dogs locked in another room. We learned that our neighbors had been feeding them also, and had already named them Prince and Willie (there used to be a grey sibling but the wildlife got him). They couldn't own cats and had no plan to keep them, so we lured them into our house to trap them and take them to a vet to get their rabies shots and to get them neutered. We had planned to re-release them into the wild since they were feral and we already have two dogs (including a tiny senior dog). Any excuse we had to get rid of them (what if they were bad w/ the dogs, what if they couldn't figure out litterboxes, etc.) was debunked right away. They didn't show any food aggression towards us or the dogs, knew how to use litter boxes, and won us over in a short amount of time. They won us over and we decided to keep them. Now I can't imagine our family without our two cat sons!