This is kitty Carmen and she is
currently having a nap on our bed, it's Friday and the world is a
wonderful place.
But there is a back story, there's
always a back story and this one began on a rather bleak and windy
Saturday evening a bit over a month ago. My wife and I have always
been a cat loving family, however after losing our beloved Samantha
to cancer we have remained a cat free house since that fateful day.
Well this Saturday the cat free house
status was going to be rocked to its core as I sat watching the TV I
noticed from the corner of my eye a beautiful little cat in our back
yard. I immediately leaped to my feet to investigate this the most
cutest of visitors and to ask what it wanted of which it replied
with requests for food and pats and in that order too.
After complying to the given requests
we invited the little fellow inside, it was obvious that this was a
well cared for pet that must have a loving family and live some where
close by, but what the hey it was only visiting.
After a lovely night of pats we bid our
little buddy goodnight thinking how wonderful it was that it choose
to visit us not ever even contemplating it would be back, and it
would be.
The next night our buddy was back and
the night after that and after that, and soon the visits became
longer and the absences less until it seemed like we had ourselves a
cat but of course we didn’t, we had somebody else cat and we were
going to need to find out who's.
Fast forward to Monday this week and
the day of reckoning had arrived, we did not want to give up our
little buddy but that was the point, it was not our cat so off to the
vet we went. I might add at this point that Kitty Carmen was none too
happy to be going to the vet either but it had to be done.
Yes we were right kitty Carmen did
indeed have a home and she was micro chipped so finding her owners
was only a computer search away and indeed thats what happened as we
left the vet once again cat less and shedding just a few tears.
We were able to telephone the owners
and to allay our fears that she was OK and that should be the end of
the story but cats choose their owners and her current ones were more
than willing to let kitty Carmen decide and so the hope began that
maybe our little Buddy would once again visit. By Wednesday evening
with no sight of her we resigned our selves to the fact that she had
made her decision and that we could always visit her.
I never gave up hope that she would
once gain visit us and I don't know what's going to happen in to the
future but what I do know is that you wish very hard and never stop
believing that wishes and dreams do come true.
