Claude: The Early Years

See also: Claude's World and Claude the Amazing, Daredevil Roof-climbing Cat.

When Claude "Claudehead" Chitlik was found near Bardstown Kentucky, in December, 1990, she was a tiny cold, wet ball of fur and we assume she'd been abandoned that day.

Here are some of the first photos ever taken of her, including documentation of her being given milk. (Bad idea, by the way.) 

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Photo by Bernadine C. Strange
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Photo by Bernadine C. Strange		 Claude left for several days in July of 1991, setting off a neighborhood-wide search that included the posting of photocopied fliers on dozens of phone poles. Here she looks at one of the fliers herself.

 
She eventually began to hang around her "dad" enough that Diet Coke became an important element in her diet. She seemed mostly interested in the boxes, though. dietcoke.jpg (10613 bytes)

 
phonebook.jpg (17317 bytes) Claude quickly learned that Reading is Fundamental. And reading the phone books became one of her favorite pastimes so she could call all of her cool cat friends and order from various catalogs.
Claude -- not known for her ability to work and play well with others -- did have a sister "Pickle" (above right) for a while.

Sadly, Pickle met an untimely death at the hands of an automobile in the spring of 1993.   		pickle.jpg (31091 bytes)

 

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