Jenna's World: The Red Cat Chronicle
by Chris Swett
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2009 Chris Swett
wcswett@mac.com
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Prologue:
Jennaʼs World was conceived online as a weekly cat blog called Jennaʼs Page posted to CompuServeʼs Pets Forum. At that time there were only two cats in the house, Cheri and Jenna. Jenna had just arrived a few months before and the two werenʼt the best of friends. During the approximately one year run of Jennaʼs Page, Red Cat arrived from the great outdoors and took up residency with the other feral cats in the neighborhood. He turned out not to be feral, however, so I eventually coaxed him to join the family. Jennaʼs Page can be found through a link at www.jennasworld.net.
My saga with cats began seven years ago when Cheri, a beautiful white Persian, wandered into my garden in southern Mississippi. She was thin and a little worn, but very friendly and clearly an indoor house cat. I fed her and took her in at the start of Labor Day weekend 2001, two weeks before 9/11. She was no youngster then, and continued to mature into the Grand Dame of the household. Sadly, I lost her to kidney failure on Nov. 6, 2006.
In late 2002 we moved to the northeast Georgia mountains, which in retrospect was a really good idea considering that the eye wall of Hurricane Katrina passed directly over the house I rented in Mississippi. So, Jenna joined the family in early 2004 as a refugee from Mountain Shelter Humane Society. Little did I know when I walked into their thrift store that they would have such a beautiful cat confined to a cage. I couldnʼt let that continue, so she came home with me that day. Cheri was not amused.