cat
It's been said that people that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.
Princess Leia
My wife and I adopted our little kitten at only six months old, from the charity Cats Protection. We recently moved into our first place and felt that it was a little quiet, we loved it, but wanted to share it with someone, so off to the sanctuary, we went!
By The Messenger Magpie5 years ago in Petlife
Tiger
I was anxious to say the least. There was no real reason why other than the fact that I had anxiety and depression that had gone untreated for a few months. Maintaining a therapist seemed unreasonable at this point. We had no car and no licenses to drive anyway. I wasn't generally in the mood to walk to therapy every time I had an appointment. I had to be in the mood to go somewhere and cabs were a bit out of our price range.
By KLMillward5 years ago in Petlife
October328i
OCTOBER328i The Moss Point Tiger…A.K.A…Mittens the run away kitten. Have you ever just wanted to take a chance and run away in search of a better life….just do it. One hot fall day down in the country in a small town called Moss Point, Ms I made my dead get away… Its hot in the day, cold in the night, its so many of us running around I know this isn’t the life for me. Hungry, tired, thirsty, and flea bitten I knew I had to leave by any means necessary. One day I saw a BMW 328i pull up and I knew it was my time. Sometimes you only get one opportunity to make a change your life and when that time comes you take it. That car looked like it came from a good home where they can afford to take care of me. I’m not sure if they will want me but I'm so adorable how can they refuse me. Grey all over like a cotton ball with hints of black and my tail had black rings going up an down.
By Brenda Nathan 5 years ago in Petlife
Tommy and Cappie: A Tail of Two Kitties
Decades ago, my late wife and I went to an animal shelter to adopt a kitten and we found one very young orange tabby named Tommy. We were in the process of adopting him and had already paid our fee and they were double checking his health when they began to be concerned about him. Finally they determined that he had feline leukemia and that he was not going to live very long. We were given the option of picking out another cat to adopt or get a refund of our adoption fee. We couldn’t bring ourselves to choose another cat because we were shocked and heartbroken and hurt to lose Tommy so quickly. But we also decided that we were not going to get our adoption fee refunded and furthermore that we would formally adopt Tommy. So we filled out the paperwork and we adopted him even though we knew we couldn’t take him home with us. What we chose to do was add our last name onto his and buy a few toys that he could have with him for as long as he was going to live. We didn’t want him to die as a cat without a family. Even if he’d never know it or ever come home with us, we wanted him to be loved and to be part of a family. Little Tommy was our cat for a matter of weeks. We only got to meet him very briefly and we weren’t allowed to handle him, but for all the problems he had in his short life, he seemed like a happy little boy and we were overjoyed to watch him play with the toy that we bought him. And he played with joy and strength of spirit and you wouldn’t know that he was sick- that instead of years ahead of him, he actually only had days. Tommy lived a lot in the short time he was here, and we loved him as a part of our family. And then we said goodbye to Tommy, but we were forever changed.
By Mark Abukoff5 years ago in Petlife
The tale of the Talei rescue
In the heart of a small retirement village, cats stalked the area. The council had deemed them as pests and a notice was released stating that the cats were going to be ‘removed’. My Grandaunt, a resident of the village called me in a panic. She knew of my love for animals and my experience in the animal training industry. She was terrified that all these animals would be killed. My work colleague Zoe and I devised a plan and we went to the village. On our way, we bought cat food and a cat trap. We created the trap and sat in wait for cats. We had to rescue as many as we could in the hope we could rehabilitate them and find them homes.
By Mariana tana5 years ago in Petlife
Sharing Life with Polydactyls
The time was right to take a leap of faith into pet parenting. Should I choose a dog or cat? Would I adopt? Am I responsible enough to be a great parent? I did not take the decision lightly. Once I settled my concerns, I took the plunge and went looking for a soulmate--the furry kind. A cat would soon occupy my residency.
By Miss Kentucky5 years ago in Petlife
Watered Whiskers
Being a pluviophile, the first warm spring rain is my favorite time of the year. Once I step out the door of my house and smell the fresh, clean air and the scent of water on the black top, I feel free, recharged, and relaxed. If it were my choice I would take that moment and package it into a bottle I could wake up and smell every day...but not today. I have to get into my beat up SUV that for some reason has the smell of old wet gym socks rather than fresh spring rain.
By John Burkholder5 years ago in Petlife
I can't imagine living without them
I've never thought of myself as a cat person until one day my sister called me to tell me about this one skinny gray cat with an injured eye. I knew nothing about cats and how to take care of them. Neither did she. Even so, we decided to rescue her and give her a forever home.
By Eleanor Annay5 years ago in Petlife
The day you moved in
I love animals! They have been part of my life since I can remember. Dogs, cats, goats, horses, bunnies, fish, more cats, more dogs… a whole array of species have crossed my path and I can’t say that any of those has been a bad experience. Sad, perhaps, because their place in my life ended too soon, but never have I had any regrets or bad memories. I’ve never been afraid of them (even the scary-looking ones). In fact, I love animals so much that I made my business all about them.
By Natalia Perez Wahlberg5 years ago in Petlife
Not An Elephant, But As Noisy As One
My husband and I had planned on getting a cat, we just didn't expect it so soon. But well, things happen. It's March 2020, we're engaged, we've just managed to move the tiny house we bought into my parent's backyard. And the week before we had watched a nature documentary about elephants on Disney+. This will be important later.
By Anna Miller5 years ago in Petlife
