A Classic Case of .....

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

"Well.....ok, but only until we find a good home for him."

updated 6/29/04 see new post

We had our Corvette Christmas party Saturday night and one of my friends was telling me this story. Her teenage daughter was visiting a friend that lives in an apartment complex. A cat showed up outside and kept begging to come in. The girl called her mom (my friend) and asked if she could bring it home - and was told no. The girl smuggled the cat in, and when the cat was discovered was told to take it back where she got it from. A few days later she visited again, and the cat was in the exact same spot where the girl had left it, so she brought it home again. The parents agreed to let it stay, "But only until we find a good home for him."

They called the manager of the complex and told them they had the cat in case anyone reported him missing, put a few posters up in the grocery store and such. In the meantime....Fergie has worked his way into all the hearts in the household. On Friday my friend got a call from the complex manager and was told that the manager would take the cat. She had recently lost one of hers to RB and by the way my friend described this cat, he sounded like a total love and she (the manager) would love to be able to give him a good home.

Well, my friend was sooo upset after this call! She broke down in tears in the grocery store because she didn't want to give the cat up! She says "This is terrible, he's only been here a week and I feel so bad about getting rid of him. I don't want to get rid of him!" Then she proceeded to tell me how the cat slept with her daughter every night, and he is just the best cat. They took him to the vet and he is neutered, declawed in the front and is about 6 years old. She says you can tell this cat was totally loved because he is such a lovebug. They figure someone moved and couldn't take him, so they left him - how loved could he have been?

But anyway, I don't want to digress into that. The only problem with the whole thing is the younger daughter(13) is allergic to him. They are going to talk to the doctor about putting her on Zyrtec or something and if the doctor agrees it won't be harmful for a young girl to be taking this medication everyday, Fergie will have found his furrever home!

She said he is just the best cat in the world, loves to play fetch, and obeys like no other cat she has ever known. She says all you have to do is tell him "no" once and he won't do whatever he was doing again. She also said that the other day Fergie was by her husband and he told Fergie "Take that by mommy. Go tell mommy that daddy told you to give that to her." I don't know what "that" was, but when I heard the "mommy" and "daddy" terms I knew the cat had found a home.

My friend also told me that if it comes down to where they really can't keep the cat because of the younger daughter, they personally will find a good home for it. She said even if she found a no-kill shelter that would take him, she couldn't do that to such a sweet cat, and after a few days of her husband getting to know the cat, he agreed emphatically and said no way is this cat going to a shelter.

I just wanted to share this story with you all. The only other pets they have are some snakes and frogs that the oldest daughter has, who, by the way, is in college right now studying to be a veterinarian.

So it looks to me like Fergie knew just which window to go beg at that night.