What a nice heart warming story. Thanks for sharing it with us AmberLee. I have a book called "Cat Caught My Heart". I haven't read it lately but it also has a lot of cute cat stories in it. Here's one of the shorter stories. The story is called "Rainbo".
She was a summer cat who came to us in summer dreams and lazy warm days. I spent that summer in Iowa visiting my mother--my daughter was with me--and we ended up getting a kitten that we had fallen in love with. Rainbo was her name. Every morning my daughter would take a shower and, being eight years old, would never dry off, just bounce into the living room and sit down in a rocker, hair all dripping. Every morning , Rainbo would see her dripping hair and attack that wet head-- it was hilarious.
When we left Iowa to come back home to Colorado we brought Rainbo with us. Now it was time to turn Rainbo, our summer kitten, into a responsible home cat. When we stopped for gas, we put Rainbo on a leash and walked her. When we got home, we introduced Rainbo to her new house. We have a fenced yard but we were afraid Rainbo would run away. So we put her on a long lead attached to a tree in the front yard. We gave Rainbo two weeks to get used to her yard. She spent many hours quietly scoping out the animals of the neighborhood.
When the big day came, we let her loose, hoping she wouldn't run away. We went about our daily routine of planning the day, house cleaning, breakfast, and lunch, checking outside on Rainbo every once in a while. After a few hours someone knocked on our door. It was a neighbor from across the street who has two cats. Rainbo had strolled right in their front door, had used their cat box, and had come running back out. I guess we forgot to show her where her cat box was located!