National Adult Literacy Database

December 17, 2012

Charly helping Ken do his homework for the Keshen Goodman Library ALP

This week, the stories are written by students with the Halifax Community Learning Network. The story below was written by Ken McDow, from Halifax, Nova Scotia. His story was previously published as an e-book on the Mount Saint Vincent University website, Publish It! You can check out this and more at: http://pub1.msvu.ca/.

The Story About my Cats

by Ken McDow

My wife and I picked up two white kittens at a house on Bayers Road in 1999. The cats were six weeks old. I took the cats to the animal hospital for a check up and to get their shots.

Charly and Lucy are 13 years old now and they are still healthy today. My cats never leave my apartment. They have toys to play with and they chase each other around the apartment.

Terry feeds the cats in the morning and at dinner and supper time too. They are in good health and get all their needles every year.

Charly likes to jump on the table to help me do my homework. He likes to lay on my papers and it makes it hard to get my work done.

When he gets tired of helping me, Charly jumps down and walks around the apartment looking for Lucy.

Sometimes it seems like Lucy is talking to me. Both Charly and Lucy have one blue eye and one green eye. They were born that way. They were the only ones like that in the whole litter. That was why we decided to take them both.

Charly and Lucy will stay with Terry and I until they go to heaven. They are good company for Terry and I.

My cats are getting older now and they don’t sleep much at night. They walk around the apartment all night long.

They come into my room and wake me up in the morning and go to Terry’s room and wake him up too so that he’ll feed them breakfast.

I love my cats and that is the end of my story.