You Can Rest Easy Now. We Found Your Cat.

Don't worry. We found your Cat!

We live out in the country, and have lots of fields and woods, and we'd seen her a couple of times this past week, so we already knew she was around. Unfortunately, last night our dogs found her and there was a bit of a fight, she did good tho, not HER fault she's not up to taking on two white German Shepards, and anyway, OUR bad for letting the dogs out in the yard, sorry about that!

(and no, no problem, sure I had a group of friends over, we were just hanging out, watching some Derby, that's what pause buttons are for, I was happy to leave them, rescue Kitty, tend her, bring her in, show her around, didn't interrupt more than an hour or so)

She's ok tho, one bite, and we'll get that checked out. The Dogs are ok too except for a few scratches, we'll take care of them too, and take them to the vet if they get infected, which hardly ever happens with cat scratches..

In fact, if Kitty's bite isn't infected and in need of serious attention, there's nothing much more she needs except shots, feline leukemia tests, flea and tick meds, maybe a spay, shouldn't run into much more than a couple hundred all together, we can take care of that, don't worry.

And if she is already pregnant, we can let her have the kittens and find them homes for you.

She was a little shaken when we took her in, but SO friendly, she purred, and was so very glad to be indoors. I'm sure you kept her in and didn't let her roam free, and don't WORRY, she's only been out a few weeks and seems to be adjusting to life in the house again just fine. And she sure does like people! You must have cuddled her and loved her and care for her, why, her entire life up to this point, which has been a while, since she's no longer a kitten.

And, gollee, I sure laughed, you trained her well, when I opened the can of catfood, she sure did know that sound and came running to eat. She ate three cans, one right after another! Guess she was tired of hunting and killing her own food, which is plentiful in the country, as you know, and cats, even ones that have eaten out of tins their entire lives, are just natural born hunters, I'm sure she's been eating just fine. She's a little thin, but hey, good for 'em, I say.

And I totally applaud your Plan of dropping her off out here in the country. The country is full of people like us, who can easily take in as many cats as find their way to us. I would never drop off a cat at the Shelter, I mean, how EMBARRASSING! Having to tell them you could no longer afford her, or were moving, or ho hum, were simply tired of Kitty. Cats do fine outdoors, way easier just to dump them.

I can see from her fur that she wore a collar, good on you for taking that off, so she didn't get caught on something. The care you obviously had for her is touching. And don't worry, I checked with the Shelter to see if she had simply wandered off and found herself 10 miles out in the country with no other houses nearer than a mile or so. I know how the little darlings can wander.

The Shelter, by the way, offered to take her, they've only got the 162 right now and need more. They were glad tho you had dumped her, as it is FAR more responsible than taking her somewhere she'd have to live in a cage until someone picked her. Sure, sometimes it's dangerous for Kitties that have lived indoors all their lives to suddenly find themselves in the wild, but hey, they adapt, and some kindly person will take them in.

I saw on the ASPCA website that it's estimated there are around 70 million stray, dumped unwanted and feral cats living in the US alone right now! That's just silly, I am sure there aren't THAT many, and anyway, most of them probably find homes, with people like us, who really, are just waiting to take in any Kitty that shows up at our door.

It's good to know YOUR plan, dumping Kitty, was a good one and that it worked.

So don't WORRY, we found your cat.

You can sleep well at night now, in your bed, rest easy, my friend.

Heh.

Love and New Kitty,
Lorraine