Smudge the Cat survives the mean streets of Long Beach

And now, for no good reason at all, a funny story about a cat. Told by Pitch clubs editor Berry Anderson:

In the spring of ’94, I got a kitten from my 10th-grade history teacher.

She was all white with a big gray smudge on her head, so I named her Smudge.

Smudge stayed in Long Beach when I moved out here and lived with the rest of my family.

She stayed with my mother on the northside until my mother died, and then she moved in with my brother and sister, who live in a pretty nice neighborhood. Smudge became a full-time outdoor cat at this point.