Posted by kara lynne on May 8, 2004, at 12:20:00
In reply to Re: no : ( I AM SORRY :( Let's still hope, posted by fayeroe on May 8, 2004, at 8:14:09
Yesterday morning The Humane Society called me and said they had a cat fitting my description. It had been found in a nearby city and a woman took it in and took care of it for a month---but she accidentally stepped on its tail (very hard) and it turned around and bit her, so she took it to the Humane Society. The woman said that since it had bit someone it was quarrantined and she could not check the microchip to identify it it was mine. She said it had been exhibiting 'feral' tendencies, which might be because it had been out for a month.
You can imagine how I felt as I flew down there, trying not to get my hopes up but unable not to. Everything matched--someone had kept the cat for a month, and the woman said if the cat were deaf maybe that's why it bit. Alice never scratched but had a tendency bite when her 'boundaries' were overstepped. I had to wait outside the locked facility where they put the quarantined cats that will in all likelihood, be put to sleep. But I could see the cat from the outside and I knew immediately is was not Alice.
Needless to say, heartbroken all over. The attendant came and let me in, and I pet the cat who was clearly male, and he rolled over and purred, and rubbed his head against the cage for more. Two attentendants admonished me for petting him, repeating that he was there because he bit someone. I said he bit because someone stepped on his tail, and I would bite someone too if they stepped on my tail. I said he was obviously a loving kitty, just fine, no problem at all, and they were quiet. He had just gotten lost, took to this woman and didn't like having his tail stepped on. He wasn't Alice though, and I didn't take him home.
I don't understand someone who would take care of a cat and dispose of it once she accidentallly hurt it and it responded naturally. I also don't understand why the woman who called couldn't have told me the cat's eyes were blue (I did ask on the phone) as Alice's are green and it would have saved me a lot of grief. They were all so scared of this 'mean feral' beautiful, sweet, old, lost cat who wasn't mine.
poster:kara lynne
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