Dear Friend,
Thank you so much for sharing Precious with your fellow cat lovers. She's a beautiful kitty. May the Lord bless you for taking her in and then being patient with her as she adapted herself to your environment. It appears she possibly had some abuse in her past, or was at least threatened or felt threatened. There are some kitties in my neighborhood who, even if they don't know you, will come if called and then roll on their backs and purr. There are others who run in the other direction if called. It just shows kitties are like people- if they have been wounded, either physically or emotionally, they'll shy away from contact. I'm so glad Precious is at ease with you now.
You said Precious is nine years old. If you make sure to keep her inside and NEVER let her out, she has a good chance at being with you quite a few more years. We have a fifteen year old gray dilute tabby girl kitty named Erin, AKA "Mouser", although she's never seen a mouse. Her nickname was more because when she was a kitten, she had really big ears. She was a real cutie. Anyway, Erin is spry for her age and can easily clear the baby gates we have up to restrict the movements of our now-walking baby granddaughter. She looks like a little gazelle when she jumps them. She can also jump up on a sink and the washer and dryer, although we do discourage the sink and dryer, etc. She has plenty of places to roam in our house (not that it's big) without having to get up on places where she has no business.
Again, thank you for sharing Precious with us. It appears she is well-named. May the Lord grant you both a long, happy, healthy life together, filled with warm, sunny days where she can sit in the window and soak up the rays. May she also be able to see plenty of birdies, so she can chatter-talk to them and tell them how she would like to crunch their little bodies, if she had the chance (Erin loves to talk to the birds and often tells then what she would do if she were not retrained, LOL). May Precious have nice, cool nights in which to find a warm, snuggly bed and rest up for the next day's activities.
May the Lord bless and keep you.
My love to all in Christ Jesus, my Beloved and Lord.
Jim Grayson
Lexington, Kentucky
U.S.A.