JONATHAN/JOHNNY (STEWIE) AND PENELOPE/PENNY (SYDNEY)

Jonathan (Johnny) and Penelope (Penny) were named Stewie and Sydney when up for adoption. They were born in our home when we fostered their pregnant mama, Sylvi. They had a rough start in life, mama Sylvi, who was still a kitten herself, had a traumatic birth and needed emergency surgery to save her life! Stewie had been born 5th and we’d been referring to him as #5 (once we knew he was a boy, aka Johnny from the movie Short Circuit) since then. He’d been found still half in the sac and unresponsive when I checked on his mama after stepping away for dinner. Poor Sylvi was exhausted after having him and was sidetracked struggling to have #6. I quickly cleared away what mama hadn’t finished and cried when I was able to revive him. How could I not keep him! Of course, he couldn’t be an only child and his big sister with the stripe on her chin had my heart. They all did really and it hurt to choose and not keep them all!