Mimi and Ziggy entered my life in Peniche, my mother's home town by the sea. A local student had a very sweet female cat - half Siamese - that had an affair with a local black tom cat. She had a litter of four - the Siamese like male and female were adopted but no one wanted the two black ones. Until then I hadn't realized that prejudice against the «witches’ cats» that bring bad luck still existed. They were destined to go to the country side and live in a farm where twice a week they got fed and had to watch for the hunters in the nearby fields... Like their mother, Ziggy Stardust and Flash Mimi are people cats - maybe they wouldn't adapt too well to running from hunters... probably they would go to them asking to be petted. So, after swearing I would never have another cat after Mao dyed at the age of 19, I got these two pests.
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