Our Cat

Before my family and I moved to the United States, we lived in Peru. When we were growing up, we had a cat named Maria. Maria was a black cat and was a lot of fun to play with when she was little. When she got older though, she stopped being fun and instead enjoyed being by herself instead, which was alright because most of us were very busy most of the day. There was just one problem, the kittens, Maria always seemed to be having babies. I think that in the years that we had her, it would be fair to say she had 30 kittens. The reason for this was because unlike the United States in Peru, animals live outside and are given a lot of freedom and at night all the cats in the neighborhood would get together on the roofs of the houses. There were also many markets in Lima and so if a cat was hungry, it could just steal something, so because of this many strays also lived in the area. The biggest problem with that, was Maria was the only female cat in the neighborhood. In the end my parents were forced to get rid of Maria and her kittens, because it would have been impossible to afford to keep them.