Anna Agneta & Captain

 "My husband Brian and I used to live in this old loft building in Toronto called The Coffin Factory, that's what it was before people started living there. It was right next to this abattoir and around it there lived a colony of feral cats. They probably thrived from the waste of the pigs slaughtered there. They all looked tough as hell. Our dog wouldn't even go near them.One day my friend Agi and her boyfriend at the time had a new cat mom and her kittens arrive on their doorstep. A friend of theirs had found her and dropped her off. She was no doubt from the colony, a beautiful pale grey calico with exotic light green eyes and orange ringlets on her tail. They named her Nala.When the kittens were ready to find new homes, we thought we'd go take a look. I remember going down through the maze-like hallways of The Coffin Factory to her unit. There were 6 kittens and they were all nuts, one climbing on something, a couple napping on the couch, another chasing a toy across the floor, they were everywhere. I wasn't sure if we should get a cat since we travel and move around a lot, but Brian said "Of course we'll take one of the kittens, we'll make it work!" Ok, we're getting a kitten.I'm not sure which came first, his boss-like swagger or his name, Captain. Probably his name but he grew into it so well I can't imagine him as anything else. He's always liked to ride around on our shoulders, I think it comes from his nature of liking to be up high and perhaps escape our overly affectionate dog when he was too small to ward her off.He's a cat and can't help but do cat-like things, like wake us up when be wants food, showing a certain remorselessness when he chews on expensive computer cords, but behind those things there's something of higher being capable of great love and affection. Anyone who spends enough time with him falls completely in love. He tends to really affect people and share special moments with them. I feel very lucky that I get to be his cat mama."@annaagnetaAnna Agneta is a model and musician. She plays guitar in a Canadian indie rock band called Dusted.