The Amazing Cat!

A few months ago, this adorable creature wandered up to my parents house. She is super friendly and has a front leg that was once injured and has mended incorrectly (but it doesn't slow her down one bit.) My parents named her Sunshine, but didn't want another cat. She bonded with my kids immediately and got along well w/ our dog. So she came to live with us.















When we moved ( oh yeah that's why I haven't posted for so long we moved :) w/n the city limits we worried that she might not stay w/ us but she did and thus began B's beloved new "responsibility." He began feeding the animals each morning with great pride and words cannot express fully his love for Sunshine.

He says she is amaaaazing b/c she will stand up like this! ;)




















Fast forward to this past Saturday when B goes to give her breakfast and she is no where to be found. He is very worried and of course dramatic (as in, "I will never see her again!" and I will never have a cat again!") I thought no big deal she is an outside cat. So, she went exploring she will come back.

She didn't come back...not on Saturday....not on Sunday morning.....not on Monday morning. By this point we have walked the neighborhood calling, driven the neighborhood, talked to our immediate neighbors, and made a trip to the animal shelter....w/o any luck. Just before I began making fliers, our next door neighbor informed us that a neighbor two houses down saw a cat matching Sunshine's description and took her to a house one street over where another family had been missing their cat for 3 weeks.

We go over there and explain the situation and we are told that yes they do have the cat we are talking about!

Wait it gets weird.... so we go inside and Sunshine is no where to be seen, but they tell us that the cat we described is the litter mate to their cat "Eucalyptus" and then show us a cat that is identical to ours! I am stunned. I say wow and explain that we rescued Sunshine from south of Corpus Christi so I don't really know her background. They asked me lots of questions about how she looks, acts, times, dates, and vet reports. All the while we still have not seen the cat in question and it is becoming clear to me that they think that we either adopted or kidnapped their cat ("Sparkle") 3 weeks ago and that during that time her leg was broken and allowed to mend w/o proper care. Apparently, I said all the right things to put their minds at least somewhat at ease and they brought Sunshine in and she indeed was our Sunshine she immediately began playing with the boys and B was thrilled!

So, they let us bring her home and I felt sad for them and relieved. The cat however, is now sojourning w/ my parents until we move out of the city. She truly does not like being cooped up inside. It seems that, even when they are amaaaazing, you can take a cat out of the country but you can't take the country out of the cat. :)