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9. My daughter got a kitten while a college student

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 09:45 PM

17 hrs ago

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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