The Adventure Begins

On a bright summer day in Columbus, Mississippi in 2004, Chopper Bopper was born. His birth was not a in a typical fashion, however, after living with Chopper for 7 years now, I've come to find out that non-typical is typical for Chops. Chopper was born to an anti-freeze drinking, steel plant refugee mother. What's so amazing is that Chopper's momma kitty was drinking anti-freeze out of one of the machines at the plant, even after being offered fresh water by several of the workers there. She refused, and the result was 5 beautifully healthy kittens. It was the first of several incidents in Chopper's life that caught me by surprise.

Soon after coming home from his birthplace, Chopper earned the nickname "Narcoleptic Kitty" as he would fall asleep in mid -leap, bite, poop, etc. He played so hard that he would exhaust himself and fall in the middle of the floor or his food bowl, or his litter box. It was too funny.

Chopper brought so much joy and so many laughs, but he also brought a lot of...things that aren't so pleasant. Chopper soon developed the ability to spray. Maybe it wasn't so much that he developed the ability, but that he discovered the ability. Soon he had marked anything that would stay still long enough for him to back his little tail up to it. This included curtains, walls, the refrigerator door, bookshelves, the top of the entertainment center, the TV itself, and perhaps the worst thing of all, the tool bench and all of the tools on top of it. (Let the human parent's inevitable fight begin!)

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