
Just wanted to say hi and say let me know if you have time for a visit when you're down here for your Mom's b'day (Happy birthday Kandice's Mom!
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Everyone who knows me well knows how much I love cats. I adore them - even though I just recently found out I am extremely allergic. I will never be without a cat - no matter how much they make me sneeze.
Today was a trying day for this cat lover, though. For the last few months, there have been several stray cats hanging around my house. I have been feeding them (I just can't resist!) and they have been braving the great outdoors (with all the wild animals, floods and cold weather included). November was hideous in terms of weather, and most of the cats have not been around (I really hate to think about why they are gone).
Well, today one of them came back - a sweet fluffy black girl kitty. She's so friendly, and so, so hungry. So I fed her as usual. She stayed by the back door this time (instead of going off on her own as usual) and cried and cried.
So I figured I would try and bring her in and perhaps adopt her into my house. Well, as most of you know, I already have one kitty - an orange Tabby girl called Pumpkin. I thought this would work, because Pumpkin seemed okay with the black kitty eating by the door, and hadn't hissed or growled at her. And I figured she might be ready for a new kitty by now (our cat Melody, Pumpkin's lifelong companion, died a couple of years ago). Well, apparently that wasn't the case.
The black kitty allowed me to pick her up, dry her off, and was extremely love-y. She also had no problem exploring the living room. But when Pumpkin saw her, she immediately attacked her, and they had quite the fight. Finally, Pumpkin ran out of the room.
Well, after that I wasn't sure what to do. I didn't want to put the black kitty back out again (neither cat was hurt, thank goodness), because with the winter here, and all the local wild animals (racoons, wildcats, coyotes, etc.) I am not sure she would have survived. But I knew I couldn't keep her at my house - not with the reaction I got from Pumpkin.
So I had the local animal shelter come pick her up. I am feeling so guilty about that. They said she would very likely be adopted - she's friendly and pretty. They think maybe she was abandoned here in the neighborhood, as so many cats are these days. But it still feels like I could have done more.
I'm so angry at whoever owned this kitty. People really need to spay and neuter. And they need to stop abandoning their pets on the side of the road. It all just made for a trying day.
So if you're in the Seattle eastside area, and want a fluffy, pretty, friendly kitty, check out the local shelter. Give this sweet thing the home she deserves.
I'm going to go cry some more now.