The MYSTeRY of ThE BRoKeN PoT

I noticed a flower pot of geraniums that had been on a bench in our backyard was on the ground broken and assumed it had been knocked over by a squirrel.  At the same time there had been a large grey cat in our backyard off and on for about a week.  We kept chasing her off figuring she was just trying to catch our wildlife.  Like a bad penny she just kept coming back over and over.  Sometimes she would come to the door and look through the glass and cry.  As much as I dislike cats I was starting to feel sorry for her.

One day my husband mentioned she had been eating the bread we were throwing out for the squirrels.  Then I saw her drinking water from a dish in the backyard.  It slowly started dawning on me that just maybe she was a stray.  What sealed the deal was when I saw her curled up between two boston ferns, right where the geranium pot had been.  Then I knew for sure she was eating what she could from the squirrel food and sleeping at night on this bench.  Apparently the pot had been in her way so she accidentally shoved it off.

As I said, I am not a cat person.  At all.   But here was this poor soul, starving and lonely.  So we started petting her at night.  Then we bought cat food and a dish for her.  She was still not allowed in the house, but at least she wouldn't go hungry.   I put the word out and a friend of mine said she would come up and get her.  Elation!   A new home for the cat and I could quit worrying about her at night!!

My friend came up and when we went to put her in the cat carrier she went BALLISTIC!  Even though we had her on a leash she wiggled out of it and ran off.  My friend looked at me and said the cat had issues and she was not going to take it after all.

Within 30 minutes Cat was at my back door looking in as if nothing at all had happened and wondering where dinner was.   I fed her but told her she could forget any petting that evening.  After all I had arranged a perfectly wonderful permanent home for her and she had acted like a crazy person.   She didn't understand and just cried some more.

Within a few days another friend said she worked with an animal lover and he and his wife would come up to get her.  I made sure they knew about her Houdini trick when we tried to put her in a carrier.  They said "no problem" and arranged a day to come and get her.

These wonderful people came on a stormy night and laid a towel down and put Cat on it while they fed her treats and soothed her.  When she was calm and unsuspecting they laid her down and before she knew it - rolled her up in the towel like a cat burrito!  She had a look of "hey - what just happened here!?" but she was in the cat carrier before she knew it looking stunned.   She cried a little but knew she had been hoodwinked and accepted it.

She went into the stormy dark of night to her new home.  These people took her to the lady's sister who was newly divorced.  Two lonely souls would now give each other comfort.  She named Cat - ABBEY.   

My husband who has NEVER liked cats actually had been falling for Abbey and I can tell

he misses her.  

We're just glad Abbey found a good home.

And now we know how to make a cat burrito!!