The History of Gray

His Name

Gray has several names.  I first named him Oliver, because of his green eyes, but that just didn't stick.  So now he goes by various forms of Gray.  If I'm annoyed with him, it's Graybie Grayhole.  I also call him Poops, but only in a high pitched voice.

The Beginning

Back when FI and I first met in January of 2008, he already had a cat, and she was a huge jerk so he gave her to a family in his hometown.  (turns out FIs roommate terrorized her frequently, and she's quite happy now)

So, FI had all of these cat accessories and no cat.  Logic dictated that it was time he got another one, especially since now he was in an apartment by himself, and I really wanted one.

We went to the local shelter, and couldn't decide between two kittens from the same littler.  So we got both!  As you can see, they love each other.

Unfortunately, both kittens had ringworm.  FI got overwhelmed, and took them back to the shelter.  We live two hours apart and I couldn't stop him, I was furious.  The next day, I drove down and we went back to the shelter and FI got one kitten back.  He decided that he just couldn't handle two cats, but one was ok.  I'm still sad about the other kitten, but he was adopted out within a few days (I checked).  Soooo that's how we ended up with Gray.

  

Present Day

Everything went great for about a year.  Then Gray started occasionally peeing in inappropriate places in August 2009, so we moved him up to my apartment.  I took him to the vet, turns out he has struvite crystals and has to be on Rx wet food forever.

But now we live happily ever after in my apartment.  My apartment is not pet friendly (ummm but they let the downstairs girl have a dog??) so when I go to visit FI every other weekend, Gray comes with me.