I adopted Sammy from the Petsmart at 52nd and Wadsworth in Arvada. My husband and I always go to see the kitties that are there and tempt ourselves and one day in June 2010 I saw this beautiful tortoise cat just sitting in the cage looking quietly out at us and I was hooked. I resisted since we had an adopted kitty already and an elderly Pekinese. A couple weeks later when we went back she was gone and I thought, "Well, that's for the best she has a home now" but I never forgot her.
Fast forward a few months to late October and I was suffering with the loss of our Peke in September and looking for a kitty that would grab me as much as Sammy had and when I went in the cat room there she was! She had been pulled for treatment for an injury and had been placed back at Petsmart for adoption. That was Saturday, by Sunday I announced that we needed the cat carrier as we were going to go get that beautiful girl and bring her home.
Sammy (short for Samhain as "Weenie" short for Halloween was just too silly) was matted from staying so long in a cage and was dirty and her one eye was still a bit cloudy but I was in love. We started the paperwork, put her in the carrier and paid with out new baby howling her protest.
We got her home and settled then went right back to get her a cat perch for the window, (which she has decided is the best invention for catdom, as are all windows,) I soon learned that their guess on her age was wrong. They said 4-6 years but she was acting more like she was one. She LOVES to play and run and eat and hunt birds and squirrels from her perches and she is one active girl. She is very good though and doesn't try and play too rough with out 8 year old adopted kitty, Youki. She is so loving and talkative and her coat took some major brushing from her time at the shelter but with good food and tons of rubs her coat is so glossy and beautiful!
She is just a wonderful kitty! She watches Youki all the time and emulates her. So Youki grooms herself and Sammy has to as well. Youki curls up and sleeps and Sammy looks at her like she's crazy and runs off to play. Youki yowls after using the litter box so Sammy does now too. "Time to flush!!!" she says. I will always adopt older kitties as they are stable and settled in who they are but with the possibility of meshing with their new environment.
We got her home and settled then went right back to get her a cat perch for the window, (which she has decided is the best invention for catdom, as are all windows,) I soon learned that their guess on her age was wrong. They said 4-6 years but she was acting more like she was one. She LOVES to play and run and eat and hunt birds and squirrels from her perches and she is one active girl. She is very good though and doesn't try and play too rough with out 8 year old adopted kitty, Youki. She is so loving and talkative and her coat took some major brushing from her time at the shelter but with good food and tons of rubs her coat is so glossy and beautiful!
She is just a wonderful kitty! She watches Youki all the time and emulates her. So Youki grooms herself and Sammy has to as well. Youki curls up and sleeps and Sammy looks at her like she's crazy and runs off to play. Youki yowls after using the litter box so Sammy does now too. "Time to flush!!!" she says. I will always adopt older kitties as they are stable and settled in who they are but with the possibility of meshing with their new environment.
I love our girls so much and my husband and I always check the kitty cages in Petsmart but tell ourselves that we need to let our girls have their spaces and to add another would be mean. But one day someone else will be coming home with us!
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