The kids came and told me one day a cat was playing with them in the garden, yeah sure I said. Then I saw it. There was a cat following the children around and letting them play with her.
We definitely didn’t want a cat, we already had a house cat.
The next day, cat came back to play with the children. It was very underweight and it’s coat quite manky but she has a collar on. The next day it was waiting when the children got home from school. I guess I should add her I have four very boisterous children and we are a very noisy household. So we started asking around. No one was missing a cat but a few neighbours had fed it, we didn’t dare as we didn’t want to encourage it, but back it kept coming, it would even follow the children inside and I would chase it our again.
A few days later we had a BBQ and she stole a sausage, we left her some water down and back she kept coming. Eventually we had tried loads of places to find its owner, asking, Facebook groups and found notices. Just over a week before she arrived we were going away for a week. So we fed her her “last supper” and left anticipating never to see her again.
We arrived home a week later and she was waiting for us. It melted our heart. So we fed her and noticed she had worms, so took her to the vet who checked her for a microchip and treated her for worms, fleas etc ... she that she would give her over to the cat rescue for rehoming or we could keep her. So we paid for all her vaccinations and she officially became ours.
We often wonder where she came from. She has been with us for 2 years now. She has her own cat flap so can come and go as she pleases but if we are home she is here. She brings us rats and birds occasionally, but mostly she’s a very homely cat. She loves sitting on our laps, follows us around the house and our of the house, she will follow the cat to visit relatives (my parents and grandparents lives literally around the corner and a lot of times when we walk around she follows us, she goes in and eats my parents cats food), she follows us the children to school and comes and meets us when we get home.
Our cats tolerate each other, it’s quite funny seeing their interactions and our older cat has learnt new things from the new cat.
She’s so lovely though. It’s completely bizarre why she turned up one day. Why she puts up with the children who she seems to adore and how she shows so much loyalty to us. I don’t know if her owners died or moved away or if she maybe belonged to the owners of the house before us. But it’s strange. She’s the sweetest thing ever (unless your a rat) ... I really wish I knew her story before ours. She’s still fairly young though, maybe a year when she turned up.