Our Daily Challenge: The Best Things in Life are Free
I know that the year 2020 was a terrible year for everyone. It was for us especially so. During the Covid pandemic with most business essentially shut down, it was very hard to get the veterinary help for our animals, medical help for myself and for my mother. Tragedies struck. Two of our birds developed inoperable tumors and so they had to be euthanized. Then our beloved cats Simon and Isabella died two days apart from congestive heart failure, and a sinus/brain tumor, respectively. My mother was devastated for our loss and insisted we should get another kitty. Little did we know, less than two months later, my mother would die from stage 4 lung cancer with only 2 weeks’ warning. At the time, I was quite sickly myself and could not make the long trip up to Maine to say goodbye to her, but I did go to visit her grave a month later to try and find some solace. While I was away, my husband called me, distraught about a stray kitten that was crying loudly and continuously outside our house for 3 days. He tried to feed and capture her to help her out but she ran from him. He set out a humane trap and she went in within minutes. Ok so now what?!? Neither one of us at first wanted to adopt another cat, we didn’t feel ready. Besides, I’d always wanted to buy a purebred Maine Coon cat and was holding out for that. When I returned home the next day and saw her, I had a feeling she was going to become a part of our family. She looks just like a cat I had when I was four years old. Interesting thing is, her age, determined by the vet, puts her date of birth right about the time my mom passed away. I imagine, somehow, that my mom guided this kitten our way. Also, it’s neat that her personality is quite similar to my mother’s…talkative, funny, sassy and determined. She provides so much comic relief at this much needed time. We didn’t seek her out, she found us, like a gift and free of charge😻
Posted by ❀Patti-Jo on 2021-01-28 03:12:36
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