wembleygoodboy

[wembleygoodboy]

I know it's not where his name came from, but how familiar are you with Fraggle Rock? Do you ever sing Wemblin' Fool to Wembley?

[...oh my GOD... see i knew OF fraggle rock, but i didnt know about this song til now and its PERFECT. i call wembley "wemble" all the time, and have even described him doing stuff as "wemble-ing," so like. this is perfect. thank you for bringing it to my attention.

wemble on, friend 🤘💚

-dadmom]

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[wembleygoodboy]

iam suporvisign Comstructiom 😊👍🦺

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[wembleygoodboy]

Wembley, may I ask where you got your name? Were you named after the puppet?

itis actuolly kindof a Lomg Storey, so iwill let dadmom tellit! 😊👍 (it also doubols as My Orogin Storey!)

[story time! this is gonna be a long one, so strap in, ahaha

so, i went to college for music (education and performance; flute performance, specifically. i can wipe my ass w that degree now tho lol), so i was in a couple different ensembles at any given time. in 2013, we were playing a multi-movement piece called "3 Ayres from Gloucester" by Hugh Stuart. the 3rd movement is called "The Fiefs of Wembley." you can listen to a performance of it here. wembley is apparently a location within london. think "wembley stadium!"

i always joked with my fellow flutist friend (we'll call her M) who i shared a stand with that Wembley sounded like the name of a mischievous cat. "wembley get off the counter!!!" "UGH NO why always on the carpet, wembley?!" etc. it helped that the tune itself totally sounds like the theme song of a somewhat skittish yet naughty little cat, parading around causing chaos until he's spotted, then darting away.

on october 3rd, 2013, i came into rehearsal and find M looking pretty distraught. i ask whats up, and shes like "i think i saw a kitten in the middle of the club lawn, it was just laying there, maybe its hurt, idk what to do!" im like okay lets check it out together, and our conductor (huge sweetheart) gives us the okay to go investigate.

sure enough, theres a tiny black blob just laying there in the middle of the lawn; not hidden away in the bushes where a mama cat wouldve left him. as we approached, the blob got up and awkwardly darted away towards the lil decorative pine shrubs dividing the lawn from a small parking lot. we followed it, and there he was: a small black kitten, crouched in terror, hiding in the shelter of the shrubbery.

i dont remember when exactly it happened, but it suddenly dawned on me. i turned to my friend. "M... its WEMBLEY..."

we tried to coax him out to no avail- not even food would persuade him, and he looked very thin- and he was a bit too close to the road for our comfort, so i asked my roommate to keep an eye on the lil guy while M and i went back to rehearsal. after it ended, we recruited a small gaggle of band geeks to capture the kitten. it was the bassoon player who finally caught him, plucking him out of a miniature shrub he'd tried to climb.

i swaddled wembley up in a black bandana i kept in my back pocket (for the Fashion™️), hopped into my roommate's car with my stuff, and headed back with my roommate to our little on-campus apartment. as i stood in the living room, waiting for him to bring our stuff from the car, wembley began to purr in my arms :,)

(to be fair, cats may purr to self-soothe when theyre stressed; its not exclusively an indicator of pleasure. but. Still, lol.)

turns out lil wembley was only a month old: just old enough for solid food, thankfully, but much younger than the age at which kittens are generally separated from their mothers for adoption, which generally occurs after 3 months. he also had a sprained leg, which made walking very difficult and painful for him. the leg was likely the reason he was abandoned by his feral mother, as if he couldnt keep up, she couldnt afford to stop for him when she likely had a whole litter to care for. understandable, but her loss was my (and wembley's!) gain. 💚

i had to tame him, as he was feral, and EXTREMELY fearful of humans, but i spent hours that night sitting on the opposite side of the bathroom, slowly earning his trust until, little by little, i was able to scoot close enough to him to pet him. he'd obviously never been petted before; the look on his little face was pure magic. he completely opened up to me after that moment.

i totally had myself fooled, thinking id find a home for him once his leg was all healed up (my vet major pal showed me how to make him a splint), but... then he started sleeping with me and... well..... yeah. nope. he was my son, and i was his dadmom.

and i always will be. 💚

BONUS PICTURES:

the first picture i ever took of Wembley (thats the bottom of a red solo cup i sewed fabric around so he could drink water from it without risking him getting cut on the plastic):

baby's first petting 💚:

he relaxed a lot after discovering the joy of Petting :)

settling down for his first night with us, too sleepy for this world 💚:

days later, with his lil foot in a splint, sitting in his temporary makeshift litterbox. the Poopie Prince!

...TL;DR, its the name of a part of london, and i chose it because of an instrumental piece of music. coulda just said that, i suppose, but I'll ALWAYS jump at the chance to tell wembley's Origin Story and share baby pics, ahaha 💚

-dadmom]

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[wembleygoodboy]

yahaha! yuo foumd me! 😊

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[wembleygoodboy]

oaghe YEA thatis THE GOOD STOFF 👍👀💯

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[wembleygoodboy]

ilove too cuddol dadmom aftor Showor!!!!! 😊💖🚿

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[wembleygoodboy]

Plaese Emjoy: my Beens 🌱

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[wembleygoodboy]

Wembley Fact: ihave A Simgle Lomg White Hair on the top of my right forearm that has been there simce iwas a YoumgMan 🤔👍

[wembleygoodboy]

"hey, yuo. yuoare finolly awake."

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[wembleygoodboy]

my tumy fur is growign back So Good!!!!! 😊

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[wembleygoodboy]

hey hi hlo isee yuoare sittign and lookign at yuor pet bugs

can i climb up ontoo yuor lap can i purr and purr and purr and hug yuor arm so fullof love while yuo squosh my fatty pack for me can i do that is that Okay?

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[wembleygoodboy]

...dadmom, i thimk thatis just for yuo, not for bboys 😔

but yea, ican give it a Good Luck rub for yuo! 😊👍

Grocories..... anythign for bboys? 👀

(also welcom home dadmom imissed yuo!!! 🥰)

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[wembleygoodboy]

Grocories..... anythign for bboys? 👀

(also welcom home dadmom imissed yuo!!! 🥰)

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[wembleygoodboy]

HI DADMOM imissed yuo!!! 😊💖💖💖

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[wembleygoodboy]

hmmn?... oah! hlo up there! 👋😊

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[wembleygoodboy]

how are you so photogenic? it seems like dadmom always gets the best pictures of you. :D

thisis So Sweet??? thamk yuo so much! 🥺💖

[this is so sweet? thank you so much!]

[usually when i want to get wembs attention for a picture, I'll stick out my finger for him to sniff. when he was young i kinda accidentally trained him to touch his nose to my finger whenever i stick it out towards him? so its a pretty reliable way to get him to look my way, ahaha. that or just saying "hey wemb!"

he also LOVES it when i ask "whos the good boy?" (he knows its him!) and will almost always give me squinty "lovey eyes" if i say it, so its great if i want him to do a sweet, squinty expression for a picture :)

dont be fooled though: sometimes it can be hard to get clear pics of him. when he gets excited, he wont sit still and will just keep walking around me, and sometimes when i crouch down near him he'll end up running over to me because he wants to be cuddled, ahaha.

-dadmom]

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[wembleygoodboy]

oaghe 😊

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