They Call Me "Giz"

By James Webb and Denis Proulx

This is the story of an extraordinary life of a male feline, and his family. The relationship between animals and humans.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 31, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477237625

James Webb

James Webb is one of the five children of Annie and Andy Webb. He is the father of Matt Webb and the stepfather to Tina, Jessica, Matt, and Megan. James is a Ship Forman for Baltimore Stevedore, a heavy equipment operator, a hip hop dancer, a Harley enthusiast, a scuba diver, a photographer, and an inventor of the automotive sound replicator. His mother, Annie Webb was a Librarian for 30 years in the Pasadena Area.

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They Call Me Giz

by

JIM WEBB

Illustrations by Denis Proulx

This is the story of Gizmo, also known as Giz. The amazing life of a male feline. His (not so amazing) family and the relations between people and animals.

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Published by AuthorHouse 08/09/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4772-3761-8 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2012911867

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Born in a Bar

The Try Outs

Going Home

Grandmom

Playtime

Christmas

Opening Doors

Those Squirrels

Litl’ Girl

The Door Game

Hunting

Bugsy

The Raccoons

Grandpop’s Van

New Garage

Things Change

The Big Fight

The Stowaway

Donna

The Wedding

Later Years

Author’s Final Note —

Dedication

Acknowledgements

I want to thank my wife Donna for her love, support and encouragement during the past year of putting together this book. I also want to thank and acknowledge my illustrator Denis Proulx / Shangri la Studios for his wonderful depiction of the characters. I want to also thank Tom for taking time out of his busy teaching schedule to assist with editing, Thank you Lauri for your love and nurturing care of Giz during his initial years. Lastly I want to thank my friends Danny, Charlie, Otts, Dave, Megan, & Glenn for their love and support.

Chapter One

Born in a Bar

I’m born in the spring of 1992 at a bar in Lake Shore Maryland. I feel the comfort of my mother next to me. She’s very warm. I suckle on her for my nourishment. Her milk tastes so good! I hear a lot of noise, but I can’t see anything. About a week or two passes, and my eyes open for the first time. Lots of people pass by me and my cat family. There’s a lot of stuff going on here. It’s pretty exciting in this new world! The regulars know my birthplace as The Palace. That’s the name my Dad to be, branded it. It’s a little neighborhood dive (not so fancy) tavern. The building is about eighty years old. The bathrooms are about five feet tall. It has two pool tables and a lot of regulars who like to use them. My mother is a barfly, whom Loretta feeds. Loretta is a barmaid who lives upstairs. It’s a beautiful spring day. I think that my mother has different fathers to her seven babies, because my mother is a snow white mixed breed. My brothers and sisters are either black or white, but I look like 100% Maine coon (originally