Twinkle Star, 2004-2025
In 2004, Kristine came home excited to tell me about a beautiful cat she saw in the local pet store: it was a young kitten, who had been rejected by her buyers and was being offered for adoption. The young kitten was living with a whole bunch of other cats in the back of the pet store, but they had to put her in a cage because she was being bullied by the older cats. I hesitated for a few months because we already had two cats (Patch and Iffy), but in January of 2025, Twinkle joined us. Her initial reception by the two older cats was not very warm: they hissed at her. I think that’s why she was so kind to Macavity when he was adopted in 2007: perhaps Twinkle remembered the frosty welcome she was given, and was determined to be kind to the new kitten. The two of them became a very close, with Twinkle acting the role of the grumpy older aunt fussing over the naughty kitten that Mac was. They often napped together in the sweetest way. When Mac passed away in 2020, Twinkle wandered th...
