Maximillian

This is Maximillian (furr brother to yesterdays star kit, Scrappy). In this picture he is 6 months old and from Columbia, South Carolina.

Max and Snow

This is my favorite picture of Maxi. He’s six months old in the picture and with his “dad”, Snowball. One of the local rescues had two baskets of kittens dumped on them. Maxi and his identical brother were in the first group and were about 6 weeks old and eating solids (mostly). His soon-to-be adoptive brother, Scrappy, was in the second group of 14 were mostly in the three week range and were all bottle babies. We mainly got Max to help snap Snowball out of the depression he fell into (would barely eat or drink. Wouldn’t groom himself) when his “baby” Phred was put to sleep.

Worked like a charm, Snow hissed at Scrappy, walked over to his “min-me” Max, pinned him to the floor and proceeded to clean him from nose to tip of tail. The two were inseparable from then on, until Snow died. Max had a hard time the last 5 years. He was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes, IBD and seasonal asthma. He also had a kinked spine which caused him a lot of pain in his later years. Lots of pills, shots and syringes full of medicine kept him with us for years we wouldn’t have had otherwise. He never fought getting medicine, but let you know he didn’t like it at all. Finally hit the point where doing anything else would have been for us, not him. He let me know he was ready and we put him to sleep on the 24th of February. He would have been 13 on April 10th.

Author: Tom “The Kittenmaster” Cooper

Tom is the owner of 4 amazing cats, and using the Daily Kitten he provides a place for cat and kitten lovers to share the love for their own cats and kittens.