I asked the
volunteer if I could go into the cage and hold her and he gave me permission. As I
walked into the cage I called her name and she sat up and stretched and gave me a couple
of meows and smoodged on my hand. (On looking back on this moment later on I
realised just how precious this moment was. Shine was scared of people!)
I picked her
up and she snuggled up to me and I knew then that this was the cat for me. Shine was
kept in over night as they had to find out if she had been de-sexed. She didn't have
a tattoo on her ear so they didn't know.
As it turned
out she had been de-sexed but by a back yard vet. She had her womb still intact, but
no uterus. When I went back into Cat Haven to pick her up, I walked into the surgery
and saw her lying in her cage and I called out to her, "Hallo Shine. Do you
want to come home?"
She sat up and
meowed to me. The Vet said that this was the first sign of any animation from her
all morning. She said that it looked as if Shine had been waiting for me to take her
home. So Shine was brought home by my son Joel and myself.
She took a
while to take to Cathy's cat Willow but
now they love each other like sisters. Shine even loves the two dogs, going as far
as giving the old mother Sheltie a nip on the rump for fun, much to the disgust of
Sheltie. Welcome to your new home Shine.
