Our Story
This is Kelly. She's our hero! Kelly works at East
Troy Basketry. One day Kelly was driving home on Hwy 20 by the airport on the edge
of East Troy and she found us in the ditch. We were in pretty bad shape.
We were only about 3 weeks old and were starving, dirty and had lots of problems
like ear mites and other yucky stuff.
Kelly didn't know what to do with us
so she took us to
East Troy Basketry. Eileen wasn't there but we did our best to charm Jim who fell in
love with us (of course) and gave us names. We knew that was a good sign. We
were so tiny that both of us fit in one of Jim's hands. Jim took us to stay with
Joan for a couple of weeks. This is Joan. She's our angel. She works at
East Troy Basketry too. Joan takes in orphaned kittens like us and takes care of
them until they are old enough to be adopted.
The picture above is the first one that Joan took of us after she cleaned us up. She calls us her "ditch kitties". After we were healthy and able to eat dry food Joan took us back to East Troy Basketry. Eileen thought we needed to have basket names so she changed our names to Willow and Nantucket (Tucker) because of our colors.
This
is what we look like now that we are 4 months old. We are very loving kitties.
We'd rather be held and cuddled than eat or play. We let everybody hold us if
they want to. Fortunately, most of the people who come to visit East Troy Basketry
love animals. If someone doesn't like cats or is allergic to us, we get locked in
our room for awhile. We don't mind though.
We've got lots of toys that people have brought us and lots of reed and baskets to play
with..