If you stopped by Thoughts in
Progress on Wednesday,
April 7th, you may have seen where I mentioned we’d been adopted
by a yellow tabby. Several of you asked to know more. Well, I’m finally getting
around to telling you more. BTW, thanks for asking.
First, if you visit here often
you probably already know this but for anyone who is new to the blog, here’s a
bit of background on why being adopted was big for us.
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| Traveler |
His loss hit us hard. One good
thing about the pandemic was that we were able to be home with him 24/7 the
last few weeks of his life. Even now as I write this, it’s through tears. While
we weren’t really sure we were ready to bring another cat into our lives, fate
had other plans for us.
I tell you all of that to let you
know that we have been adopted by a yellow tabby. Some might call him an orange
tabby, I’m really not sure. Tell me what you think.
The process started back in late
December (2020) when this big bundle of fur appeared as if out of thin air. My
partner was out tending to some plants in the yard and looked down to see a cat
rubbing around his legs. The cat then followed him around the plants checking
each to see what my partner was doing to them. Then the cat started rolling
around on the grass in front of him as if to say, “see I want to play.” The cat
was friendly and followed him around for a while that afternoon. 
Persi
We had not seen the cat anywhere
before in our yard or the neighborhood. He was just there and then was gone
again. We didn’t see where he came from or where he went. The next day he was
back so I picked up a bag of cat food. We fed him on the front porch and by the
next day he wanted to come inside. He would only stay for short periods after
eating and would want to go back outside. We didn’t want to force him to stay
in as we didn’t know where he came from. But we did start trying out names for
him. We settled on Persi, short for persistent since he seemed to be persistent
in being a part of our lives. Each day he stayed longer and became more and
more a part of our family.
It’s been almost five months now
that he’s been with us. He stays in all day, goes out for only a few hours in
the evening when he wants to, and come in at night when we call to play with
his toys and sleep with us or in his new bed. I’m amazed each day that he’s
with us. We don’t know where he came from or why he showed up here. He just
seemed to appear at a time when we needed him without us knowing we were ready.
While we still miss Traveler
terribly everyday (and always will), Persi has brought us much joy and
continues to amaze us.
Thanks for stopping by today and letting me share our “adoption” story with you. Have you ever been adopted by a stray?
