Baby Love with Sonora & Chili

Sonora Pepper & Chili Pepper joined the Purrchance To Dream family in 2013.  One day, while Not The Mama was volunteering with The Way Home at Petco, someone walked into the store with a shoe box, handed it to the cashier and walked out.  Inside were three tiny kittens.  Not The Mama agreed to take on the kittens as bottle babies fosters, and nursed them into strong playful kitties.  You can see Sonora and Chili's third sibling, their grey sister Tamale, above in the picture.  Tamale was adopted but Sonora had won over Not The Mama after a health scare when she got dehydrated, and he knew he had to adopt her.  

At adoption days at Petco, Chili kept getting overlooked - she is a lovely tabby, but people wanted fluffy kittens or siamese-looking kittens or whatever.  Finally, one day Chili came up to Not The Mama on the couch, put her paws on his chest and looked him in the eye.  That was it.  We're very happy that Tamale got adopted into another home, but we cannot imagine our lives now without Sonora and Chili in them.
Sonora has always been the smaller of the two tabby girls, and her is a picture of her as a baby:

And here is Chili in mid-2013:

And here are the girls today:

Happy Gotcha & PAWS from Purrchance To Dream

Our daddies have been working hard helping the rescue group they volunteer with, The Way Home, this summer.  We have four foster kitties in our house right now - we had five, but Mittens got adopted - and they go every Saturday to help with adoptions at Petco.
But we wanted to make sure we wished Oui Oui a very special happy Gotcha Day, and to put up a post here for PAWS.  We think this is a pawsome event and are so proud to be a part of the TCC community!
Have a great Sunday, everyone!
Purrs,
Sonora & Chili Pepper
from
Purrchance To Dream

Meowy Catmas Eve

Meowy Catmas Eve from Sonora & Chili Pepper, and all the Purries of Purrchance To Dream.
No one should be alone on Christmas Eve, so our own Little Isis is helping to host the Hot(M)BC  8th Annual Catmas Eve Chatzy Party.  It is from 3pm EST to 3am EST.
Everyone is invited, and Little Isis will be hosting from 6pm EST to midnight, so we hope you can pop in to Chatzy and say Hello and Merry Christmas!

Purrchance To Movember

Hello, my name is Sonora Pepper and I'm your host for today's Movember event here at The Tabby Cat Club!  We hope you're sporting your favorite fake 'stache today here at the TCC, and would like to remind everyone the meaning behind Movember.  It's a month-long event, like October is for breast cancer awareness, to promote testicular and prostate cancer awareness during the month of November.  Hope your Movember is stache-tastic!

PS ~ you can see more of the tabbies from Purrchance To Dream over on our blog today, too! 

Movember Reminder

Tomorrow is Movember 18th, and here at the Tabby Cat Club, we're going to have fun with Movember by showing off some 'staches.

If you haven't used PicMonkey, it's a very easy online photoshopping software.
You go to PicMonkey, and click on 'edit a photo' - upload a photo of your tabby cat with a good facial image.
On the left side of the screen - see the butterfly? Click on that.
Scroll down to 'facial hair' - click on whichever mustache tickles your fancy.
It will show up as black on the overlay, but you can change the color.
Make sure to SAVE your image (it's on the top of the PicMonkey page).
Then add your picture here at the Tabby Cat Club in a post on Monday November, er I mean, Movember 18th!
You can see that even girl kitties like me like to have some stache-tastic fun, once in a while!
~ Sonora Pepper
from Purrchance To Dream

Movember at the Tabby Cat Club on the 18th

Just like October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, November highlights testicular cancer and prostate cancer for men with a movement called Movember.  During this Movember movement, people are encouraged to grow mustaches to show their support.
Here at the Tabby Cat Club, we're going to have fun with Movember by showing off some 'staches.
If you haven't used PicMonkey, it's a very easy online photoshopping software.
You go to PicMonkey, and click on 'edit a photo' - upload a photo of your tabby cat with a good facial image.
On the left side of the screen - see the butterfly? Click on that.
Scroll down to 'facial hair' - click on whichever mustache tickles your fancy.
It will show up as black on the overlay, but you can change the color.
Make sure to SAVE your image (it's on the top of the PicMonkey page).
Then add your picture here at the Tabby Cat Club in a post on Monday November, er I mean, Movember 18th! You can see that even girl kitties like me like to have some stache-tastic fun, once in a while!
~ Sonora Pepper
from Purrchance To Dream

Purrchance To Scream

Tabby Cat Clubbers Sonora and Chili from Purrchance To Dream are all decked-out for Halloween fun!  Sonora is bewitchingly cute, isn't she?
  And Chili just wants to nom nom nom on your braaaaains....

Hello, Sonora & Chili Pepper

 Hello! We're Sonora and Chili from Purrchance To Dream.  We're The Peppers!  We are #99 and #100 in the Tabby Cat Club First One Hundred, and we're very honored to hold those positions!
We would have posted sooner but our NTM (Not The Mama) from Purrchance To Dream and The Cat Blogosphere (he's the one who does the daily Linkies posts and Birthdays and Gotcha Days at the CB) has been busy the past two weeks interviewing.  See, he just got his Florida Department Of Education teaching certification, and he's now eligible to be a teacher.  He's certified to teach English for grades 6 to 12.  And we'd like to announce it here officially: he has a job offer!  He goes this week for new hire paperwork, fingerprinting, and the pee in the cup thingy, and once all that passes, he can start teaching!
It's a great high school in Orlando, Florida - one of the biggest, best high schools in the country!  There are over three thousand students there!  That's like more than all of our tabby stripes, combined!
So, here's the official announcement: he's going to be an English teacher for sophomores, juniors, and seniors at West Orange High School.  We're so proud of him!

But hey, enough about him - this is about US being new members of the Tabby Cat Club.  For those of you who don't know our story, our NTM was our foster-parent who raised us from being abandoned bottle babies.  Sonora almost died when she was really tiny, and by the time NTM nursed her back to health, he knew he could never let her go.  It took Chili a bit longer to convince him that she was here to stay, but soon he officially adopted both of us and we are part of the Purrchance To Dream Forever Family.  We're so happy to not only have a home, but to be members of The Tabby Cat Club!
Meow for now,

Sonora and Chili