Snickers and Smudge
Way back in the early 2000's my parents were gifted a cat (I believe as a wedding gift, but I am not certain. I just remember him being gifted around the time they were married.) I believe it was the year 2009, about the time they were married that he was gifted. He was a sweet and loving cat who soon became the family cat rather than being shared between my parents. One by one as we were introduced to Sneakers, he became very protective and caring towards us. Whenever Sneakers would lay with us, he'd lay at our side and his face was in the opposite direction of ours. Sneakers would make sure we were able to breathe all the while with him laying beside us. He wanted to remain close but not to close to where he was stealing the air we were breathing. As we all got a little older and started using our words we really couldn't pronounce "Sneakers" too well. He eventually got a name change from "Sneakers" to "Snickers".