My life is so bizarre, I swear sometimes, I wonder just what the heck I am doing?
Yesterday, I received a call from a good friend of mine. She lives near a pretty popular park and she will call me from time to time because dumped kitties find their way to her door. She said she had a Russian Blue show up the other day.He was neutered, friendly but skinny as all beat-out and just exhausted. I asked her if she had taken him to the vet yet? She can’t really afford it but I told her that at least she should take him in and see if he is microchipped. She said she would do that and call me back.
Turns out the cat IS microchipped and was turned over for adoption to me in 2010! He was previously owned by a young girl who has issues and was losing her home and moving to a homeless shelter.
Grayson was adopted out immediately. I called the number I had for the family but the number is disconnected. After our slamming storm subsided here, I drove over to the apartment only to find it vacant. I wonder if they dumped him? The park is a long way from where they live.
At any rate, I don’t have the room for him right now, so Dee is going to keep him until we find a home for him. He needs groceries badly and I just have to wonder what happened to the “loving home” I found. Dee said not to beat myself up, that no one who adopts has visionary powers to see into the home after the person leaves a cat. She reminded me how shelters adopt out animals daily and never EVEN visit the homes of the people wanting the animals. I do the best I can, and sometimes I get it right- other times it can just go wrong.
you are doing the best you can – we can ask all the questions in the world and never anticipate what someone is going to do in the future. at least he is safe….
Your homing kittie powers come into effect again, Mary Anne.
We’re with Random Felines. In two years a happy home could have become a divorced, evicted single person, or worse. All you can do is try.
Dee is right. You do what you can. You certainly try your best by the cats. This Russian blue coming back to you (via Dee) is a blessing; though you don’t have room right now, he has a caring person (two, with Dee) on his side now.