My name is Tekir, and I'm a 7 year old tabby cat who loves everyone! I was born in August of 2000. I live with my sister, Abby(or Abigail Frances is what momma calls her when she's in trouble. Frances was mommy's grandma's middle name). Abby is 7 too, just a couple of months older than I am. She was born in May of 2000. I actually have a pretty interesting story to tell. My mom visited Istanbul, Turkey back in the summer of 2000 for 10 days. My sister Sofya ran out onto the sidewalk, starving, in front of a carpet store and my mom fell in love with her. She scooped her up, and walked next door to the carpet store to this little cafe and asked this man if the cat belonged to him. The man said no, you can have her but please take the brother too(that was me!). My mom put us both in a Miller Genuine Draft box and proceeded to haul us around Turkey for the remainder of her trip to see the Whirling Dervishes, the Aya Sofya mosque, the Bogazici University, and the huge street bazaars. She called us both "kedi" for a few days until she could think of names for us. "Kedi" is the Turkish word for cat, "Tekir" is the Turkish word for tiger, and "Sofya" was named for the Aya Sofya mosque. She met a nice veterinarian there named Ahmet, who gave us shots, formula and helped take good care of us. My mom smuggled us onto the plane and tried to fly us back with her, but British Airways had a no pets policy that was inflexibly rigid, so after a screaming match with the British Airways flight attendants and almost getting herself arrested, she gave us back to Ahmet the Vet, who cared for us for 4 months, then flew us to California. We even had our own passports with pictures! We arrived in December of 2000 and met our new sister Abigail. She hissed at Sofya and me just once, but after that we all became furriends. Sofya was a cute little escape artist who liked to get out and roam around on occasion. Unfortunately, she didn't come back home after her last getaway in June of 2002...but she's no doubt being very well cared for somewhere here in the Bay Area! She was too cute to not get snatched up. We all still talk about her all the time and miss her a lot! As for me, I love my life here in California! Momma and Daddy totally spoil me. I love Pounce treats, sleeping on Mom's pillow, I insist on only premium bottled water(better than the substandard TAP water mom tries to pawn off on me), tummy rubs, mom singing to me when she's tipsy after Happy Hour, chatting online, and lovely felines of the female variety, especially those with long hair. Abigail and I like to chase each other around the house and play. Abigail loves it when Momma turns on the shower, so she jumps on on the toilet and sits there waiting till Momma gets out. Abigail also has this weird plastic bag fetish, like the plastic bags you get from Safeway. She licks them constantly! Momma has to be careful not to leave them laying around so Abigail won't choke. I also get along with dogs pretty well! I used to live with a German shepherd named Buddy who would share his food with me and let me give him baths. My favorite thing to do when mom's not looking is to unroll the entire roll of toilet paper into the toilet bowl so she has to fish it out. That's a riot! She still can't seem to remember to shut the lid. Blondes . . . *sigh* Abigail and I also purr almost all of the time and we love to be cuddled! If there's an empty lap we want to be sitting in it! :)
