Amazing cats, aren't they??? Cheesecake is a seal mitted and between 2 and 3 years old. The amazing thing was that I got her from the animal shelter, of all places. I had taken in a sick stray several years before, only to fight a never-ending battle with FeLV, which she had contracted before I got her. After I finally had her put to sleep (she was diagnosed with intestinal cancer), it took me a long time to get up the will to go look at another cat. Something just told me it was right, one day, and I listened. I was glad that I did.

Cheesecake (her name was Olivia then) was a stray that had been brought in via ambulance (she had been injured or having kittens when brought in). Weighing less than 6 pounds, she was tiny, skinny and scared of everyone and everything. She'd been available for adoption for 11 days and no one had shown any interest in her (most likely because she was terrified of everything). Even though my mother advised me against it, I went back to this one cat after looking over and visiting with all the other cats. My mother told me she felt I was making a big mistake, but I paid my $15 and brought her home.

2 days later, she was running a high fever and the vet didn't think she would live. Suffering from an extremely bad case of URI, as well as complications from what my vet determined to have been an emergency c-section that had been done on her, combined with a spaying, it was really touch and go with her for almost 2 weeks... every day, I had to take her into the vet for shots of antibiotics, IV fluids, and fluids given in under her skin. It traumatized her and cost me over $300 in vet bills too. She was worth it though... pulled her through it and, today, she is nearly double her size, very happy, healthy and playful. I wouldn't trade her for the world.

I thought she was a siamese mix but both the veterinarian and a local Ragdoll breeder say nope, she's the real thing. It's amazing that no one claimed her or that she was abandoned like that.