Started off the day with a loudly purring orange cat and have been trying to bring that energy forward with me throughout the day, but the day has really been testing me. Bomb threat at work, white supremacist streamers filming on campus, job rejection….just. Let me have a good damn day for once!
Anyway. Here’s the boy snuggling and his adorable toe beans! Turn the volume up on the video for 16 seconds of purr-therapy!
I could think of no better way to share the news than this!
So when I was 17, my cat went missing and I'd given up hope of ever seeing him again.
Until on Monday, 27th of May, 2024, my friend sent me a FB post asking 'isn't that your mother?' about the person named on the microchip.
Here he is! 16 years old, and found safe, twelve whole years after he went missing!
Yesterday (Tuesday the 28th of May, 2024) I went to the rescue that had him, and I reclaimed my boy, renaming him Artie! (He'd originally been called 'Cat' because my mother and I couldn't decide on a name)
He's home safe with me now, currently inhabiting my bathroom and purring up a storm every time someone goes in there!
I'll be doing slow introductions between him and my current cat to give them the best possible chance of living in harmony!
Here's some pictures of Artie once we let him out of the carrier:
A reminder for those of us with cats at Easter that lilies of ANY kind are BAD for cats. Some species such as Calla, Peace and Peruvian do not cause kidney damage or death like Easter and daylilies, but they can still cause irritation and gastrointestinal issues if ingested...
My beautiful boy has left us. The friendliest, most laid back big, boofy cat you could ever hope to meet. As soon as your hand touched him, he'd start up that huge, chainsaw purr. My magnificat.