Rolling Dog Farm Blog

I’ve been trying for a year to get this photo.  That’s Wobbles on the left sharing the basket bed with Claire.  It’s the first time since Claire arrived last December that I’ve seen them together like this … so when I walked into the cat house this weekend and saw them side-by-side, I quickly left to get the camera.

When Claire first arrived from a private rescuer in Ellensburg, Washington, we were struck by the similarities with Wobbles.  You see, it’s not just that they’re look-alike tabbies.  It’s that they also have the same disability, cerebellar hypoplasia, which affects their motor skills and balance.  They also are the same age.  And they both ended up in shelters just 70 miles apart — Wobbles came from Moses Lake, Washington, just down Interstate 90.  So it always made us wonder whether they started out life as kittens in the same litter. 

We’ll never know … but at least you can see why sometimes it’s a little hard to tell them apart!

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