Natalie Joe’s two Siamese cats, Mikey and Buddy, mean everything to her.
“They are my best friends,” the 59-year-old East Side resident said. “They’ve been through so much with me … and they know when I’m sad or when I’m depressed. They’ll look at me like, 'I wish I could talk to you.'”
Despite her deep love for her cats, she almost had to give them up about five years ago because she was having a hard time affording cat food. She went through a period were all she would eat was ramen noodles so that she had enough money left over to buy cat food and kitty litter.