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We had recently lost one of our male cats and had been trying to get another. We preferred to have another male, hopefully fixed, and had made trips out to our local SPCA. There was one stumbling block: our landlord. When we had moved into our apartment, there was no restriction on the number of animals we could have. Unfortunately, the rules had changed. We could no longer have four animals.

Just as we had given up the hope of getting another cat, there came a knock on the door. It was the building manager. He said that he had something for us and asked if we would be home for a while. I thought it was probably some cigars for my husband but agreed to stay home.

When he came back, he had an animal carrier. Inside was this scrawny adolescent cat. The building manager said that the cat had been abandoned in an apartment for a month without food and just the water in the toilet. He said we could have (her) if we wanted but not to say where we got (her).

We named (her) Houdini because she opened up our cupboards that night. Little did we realize that (she) was actually a he and already fixed. 

This is a picture of him now, you would never know he was the same cat as when we got him.

Story submitted by Maureen Todd from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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