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It's been said that people that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.
Home Is Where the Hairball Is
When I moved in with my friend Molly, her husband, four kids, three dogs and three cats, I had no idea how everything would work out for me. I wasn’t that big on kids, but I’d always loved cats in spite of, or perhaps because of the fact that my mother hated them.
By Roberta Carly Redford6 years ago in Petlife
Two Golden Nuggets. Third Place in Pets Welcome Challenge. Top Story - June 2020.
If you had asked me two years ago, “Katie, would you ever have a cat?” I probably would have laughed. Now, I have two. Two beautiful golden nuggets of joy that I simply cannot get enough of. Every morning I wake up to their purrrrs and every night I fall asleep to their cuddles. I’m sure everyone says this about their own pets, but I believe I have the most amazing cats in the world. I am officially a crazy cat lady at the age of 30.
By Kahsia Solaire6 years ago in Petlife
Hope and a Purpose
When a parent dies your world is turned upside down. That is what happened to me when my dad passed. He had been sick for a while and I helped him with his final arrangements. We cleared out the furniture and the belongings. It was a trying time for him, my sisters and myself. At the same time, we had to place my mother in a care facility to help with her Alzheimer’s.
By Traci E. Langston6 years ago in Petlife
A CAT TO REMEMBER
When I was a child we had a few cats, and despite loving them all as members of the family we weren’t keen on getting any more after they passed away naturally. It’s true that we shed a good few tears, though we still remained adamant that we would never get another cat. Unfortunately we had a cat who piddled on furniture in the house and another who was uncontrollably having litters of kitten constantly, of which were very hard to sell to loving homes. Both of those cats mentioned would also hunt wildlife and we often entered our house to see feathers all over the place!
By Rebecca Sharrock6 years ago in Petlife
The Yoda:
The Yoda: He Puts the Cat in CATitude By Laura Kodet In the summer of 2013, my niece, Morgan, was wandering around Staten island with her then boyfriend. They spied a scraggly gray kitten chilling in a backyard. Morgan scooped him up without hesitation. Her boyfriend was going to adopt him, but his house was having some work done on it, so my niece took the kitten home to her house in Yonkers, temporarily. Morgan took one look at this tiny kitty with his fleas, eye infection, large ears and very long-haired fuzzy body, and named him appropriately, Yoda. As luck would have it my sister had just adopted two crazy ferrets and I already had a cat, so Yoda stayed in Yonkers for a year. In a very early picture of him, he had a concerned, troubled look on his face. In the spring of 2014, my lovely little girl-cat Shansala died. After a grieving period, my sister asked me if I would take Yoda because a cat and two ferrets was too much. I wholeheartedly agreed.
By Laura Kodet6 years ago in Petlife
Olive and Omens
My cat Olive adopted me the day my Dad passed away. I say she adopted me because she was a wild stray and great huntress. She did not have to seek me out for survival, yet she still chose me for companionship. Before Olive found me, I had an intuitive feeling that we were going to find each other. I was discussing my family situation with a friend when I declared, “when I go home, I will find an animal that needs my help.” I had never randomly found an animal at my parents house before, so I wasn’t entirely sure why I was making this declaration now. I packed up my bags in my one bedroom apartment in Toronto with a heavy feeling in the gut. I had to return to my hometown because my Dad was placed in palliative care the week prior. There was a small window of time left for his life after a lengthy battle with COPD. My dog Ruca, a 9 year old lab/German shepherd mix was watching me anxiously pack. I knew my anxiety was rubbing off on her, as she patiently watched me from her bed, curled up in a tight ball and gazing at me with an emphatic stare. Both my Dad and I were huge dog lovers and he taught me everything I knew about dog training, but he vehemently disliked cats. It wasn’t until living with roommates with cats, that I grew fond of felines. Even Ruca became very fond of her kitten friends and shattered the myth of dogs and cats' natural feud.
By Micheline Lalonde6 years ago in Petlife
Furry Little Life Lesson
It was my sixteenth birthday. Like many other teens, I wasn’t always the greatest person to be around – too much angst and drama, and a serious lack of consideration and patience. On that day I was in the living room when my dad came home. He told me that his coworker had found me a birthday present, and that the box was in his car.
By Samantha Blake6 years ago in Petlife
My Three-Legged Friend
I first met this gorgeous cat back in the summer of 2017. My family had just moved into a new house and this cat appeared through the hedge and greeted us with a small "meow". After owning a cat when I was younger, I was happy knowing our new home had a feline friend in the area.
By Leigh Hooper6 years ago in Petlife
