One Year Ago

It was only a few days after my spay surgery. I was sitting in my cage—not so happily. On one side was the lobby; on the other was our living quarters. The lobby side was always more entertaining; kids, dogs, humans, staff.

While gazing at the action in the lobby, I saw a couple come in. Yes, it was the same couple I had seen the day before. They were looking at the kittens—who never have any problem getting picked. “Why are they still here?” I wondered, “did they not pick a kitten and leave already?” While I was thinking, the couple came into the room, looked around, picked a few adult inmates and went in to the private room where humans and cats get a chance to know each other, away from distraction.

During this time they each came and checked me out separately while the other one was playing with the other inmates in the private room. Being a cat with principles, I did not even look at them. I just sat down with my back turned to the room and continued to watch the lobby. It is not that I am rude; I just do not like “apple polishing”.

After a while the couple appeared in front of my cage. They were reading my info card and talking in a language that I had never heard before. Here I deserve some credit; it did not take long for me to learn Turkish. Take my female human for example. She has been in the US for six and a half years and her English is still broken. On the contrary; I became fluent in less than a year! I am currently a bilingual kitty. To make a long story short, I finally realized that they wanted to go into the private room with me. Now, I know I said I am not an apple polisher. And I am also such a timid one too. But still, I had missed sitting on a lap so badly that I started purring and kneading as soon as I was on the female human’s lap—the photo is exactly from that moment. I saw her nodding and saying “yes, she is coming home with us” to the male human.

Then I joined their family, and all three of us have been living together since then. We had many good and some not–so–good days in the past year; most of which you already know. But overall we are all very happy. I love them and they ADORE me. I am working on my timidness and I think I have gotten a little better. I sometimes show up when there are guests around. And hey I even go out and spend some time on our deck. I even chased two squirrels past summer. Biggest thrill of my life. I was running on grass!

I know it is not typical of me to write so much in a post but today is our anniversary. Thanks for reading and supporting my blog, which wouldn’t have existed without its readers.

Love to all
-Mamush :3

P.S. Special love and thanks for Koko, Kelly, Kelly, and Hanna.