Sugarbelle My Cats Name

by Amber Chester
(Reidsville, GA)

I was working at a Vidalia Onion shed and a forlift truck almost mashed a kitten that was hiding under a pallet.

The forklift driver was going to give him to his girlfriend until she told him that she was terrified of cats. No one else in the office wanted him and he was going to go to a shelter. I already had another tom and fixed female at home so I decided to take him home.

He is a beautiful ginger and white tabby longhair (much like the Honeybear variety, but he is really just a mixed breed.)

All of us in the office decided to name him after a variety of sweet onion grown by the Vidalia Onion farmers and we thought that as sweet as he was when everyone met him and as friendly as he was that Sugarbelle was fitting.

A lot of my friends still call him a her because he is beautiful and fluffy and his name is a bit girlish, but I still think it fits his personality.