The story of my search for them and their subsequent adoption is a long one, and is described in The Great Kitten Search, as well as Jaspurr and Joey's Baby Album, so I will not duplicate it here. Suffice it to say that for several weeks we visited shelters throughout Northern California, looking for our kittens, and finally found them just 20 miles from home. The object of my search was a ginger-striped kitten, as that was the first time in over 40 years that I had not had a marmalade boy in my life. Jaspurr fit the bill perfectly, and I claimed him as mine, the instant I laid eyes on his photo.


