Cute Little Ginger Fluffy Kitty Sherbert: Picture of Him at 12 Months Old

by Brittney D.
(Cedar Falls, IA, USA)

The story of cute little ginger kitten Sherbert is shared with us by Brittney. He sounds like a good little killer kitten with all the hunting he does!

My cute little kitten, Sherbert(also goes by Sherb and Sherby). I got the idea for his name after seeing him sleep all curled up in the living room floor the night I got him and thought he looked like a scoop of Orange Sherbert.

At this time he is now 8 or 9 years old and was born on July 4th! But this photo you are seeing is him at about age 1 or younger(didn't take many pics of him as a younger cat).

I got Sherbert when he was I believe no more than a few months old. He was just old enough to live out without his mom and I had found an ad in the newspaper for "FREE KITTENS". I just moved to a small town and a year ago lost my dog, Trinket(a Brittany Spaniel) and was lonely.

So Dad allowed me to call the lady and pick out a cat. We met the gal at a old folks home she had the entire litter there with the mother. I picked out the orange Tabby. I let the old guy who was sitting on the porch pet him for a while and I took him home. When Dad and I were going home it started to rain like crazy and Sherbert stayed in my lap and started trembling. I took him home and set him down on the living room and he stayed there all night.

His personality is very catlike. He is a lazy cat, but can once in a while get a little hyper and run around the house like a wild man. He is what I like to call "Our little mouse killer". He's killed at least a dozen since we moved to our new home.


Once Sherbert is is in his playful mood he will constantly chase our dog, Kipper(a English Setter/Yellow Lab cross) around the house and when she is lying down Sherbert will attack Kipper's tail.

A funny story about my cat would be the one time I attempted to give him a bath as a kitten. I was home by myself with my friend Kimberly. It had stormed the night before and our basement was flooded(like it always does). Sherbert's litter box is downstairs.

Kimberly and I were downstairs trying to clean up the mess (like the little puddles of water). Well Sherbert didn't look before he leaped and he ran down the basement stairs and into a small puddle of water in front of his litter box and jumped right into his litter box and looked at me and kept meowing. So Kimberly and I decided to go back upstairs and we watched a little tv and ten minutes later Sherbert was meowing again.

I go downstairs and he's still in his litter box and was staring at me meowing. So I picked him up and carried him to the stairs and set him down and he ran up the stairs and didn't go down there again until Dad cleaned up the puddles.

Thanks Brittney for sharing Sherberts story with us. He appears to be a real character with him chasing around your dog!!

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