Nick the cat.

As a kitten, Nick fell from the wheel of a van making a turn on a busy street. Someone scooped him up and brought him to a shelter, where she found Lisa and Wally Williams of McCommas, who had gone to look for a cat. “He never made it inside the shelter,” Lisa says. Nick is still missing a little patch of fur on the side of his head. He’s 3 years old and “the main squeeze for our three kids,” Lisa says.

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