Off Topic... But I Would Like You All To Meet Timber :)

A few weeks ago I found a cat in my neighbors yard. My roommates and I were coming home from the bar and this skinny dirty little cat ran right up to us and immediately snuggled up to us. Me being a sucker for cats couldn't leave him outside to starve to death or get hit by a car. We took him inside and gave him a bath, which was fun haha. We took him to the vet... this is where it all went downhill. The vet told us that he thinks that the cat has Lymphoplasmacytic Stomatitis which is a disease that causes the cat's gums to become inflamed and painful. There is no cure for this disease. The vet told us that it would probably be best that we put the cat down. Me being stubborn insisted that we test first to see if that is actually what he had. They had to do a biopsy of his gums for the test. The test results came back and that is indeed what he has but he has a mild case of it and it is treatable. He will always have this disease and will have to be put on antibiotics and steroids occasionally but he is alive and happy. He doesn't seem to be in pain and is able to eat his dry food. As I type this he is snuggled up on my lap :) The several weeks that we had him we didn't want to name him because we didn't want to get too attached (yeah right I was horribly attached after the first day). The past couple of weeks have been ups and downs with this cat and several times I have sat a cried over this cat. We have decided that his disease is manageable and so we are keeping him.

We had a really hard time coming up with a name for him and we sat in the room playing with him for a long time just shouting out names, none of which we could agree on. I pulled open my box of crayons and decided to look at the crayon names for inspiration. The grey crayon in the box was called Timberwolf... so that is where he got his name :) He is such a lap cat!

Here are some pictures of Timber:

He gets along with Geno :)

Isn't he handsome?