Lola

The newest family member. She arrived about 10 days before Christmas 2009, at 11.30 pm, mewing at our back yard. We were liming with a friend at the time and feeding the mossies.

Dave took one look and her and that was it I think, we were adopting her. She was a gift from Santa and we could not refuse a gift from Santa now, could we? The problem was, we are in rented accommodation and our landlady has said no pets! We fed her and kept her out of the house til we spoke to our landlady. Mitchell and Jasmine was so happy to have a kitten at long last.

In all the years in Nottingham, in our own House we were not allowed to have a cat, because I was allergic to some cats and it would bring my asthma back. Holley our last cat made my asthma worse and also affected my nephew and brother in law and as they lived in Beeston as well, we decided that we could not have any cats in our house. The other reason was of course when we went away, we had to find someone to care for the pets!!

I was surprised at Dave, for starters, as we got more attached to Lola, the harder it would be to leave her behind when we leave, and that was in 19 months!! What were we thinking of? In addition, we did have some pets already, the children had wanted turtles for christmas and we had got them 2! So, in that one week, we went from no pets to 3 pets!

I must say, the joy the children have had out of Lola is immeasurable and she is lovely and fun. Life with us may not be what she's looking for though, she has had her vaccinations, been spayed and been showered twice, once cos she fell in the drains,and twice because she had caught a cockcroach and massacred it and Jasmine didn't want her smelling of roach!!