An Unexpected Weekend Guest

So, last weekend I had a special guest visiting in my apartment. This little kitty!



Itchy?

 Isn’t it adorable?. I guess she was first spotted along a fairly busy downtown street, likely not too far from her first home. Someone was walking to work out to the mall and they must have patted the kitty or called to it or something because it took a liking to them and began to follow them. Perhaps they took a liking to it too, I mean who could ignore or chase away that pretty  little face? Anyway, the trek it took from this downtown street is no easy walk in the park. My apartment is in the same area and it’s got to be a 20 minute hike. Whether this person called it along or it came on its own accord, the streets in the mall area are very busy! I sincerely hope that the person decided to carry it out at some point for safeties sake. So when they made it to the shopping centre, this person could not take the kitty to work with her. They couldn’t very well leave it in the parking lot, and obviously most places in the mall wouldn’t take a kitten in, the only plausible place had to be the pet shop. From here I assume from stories I’ve later heard the kitty was fawned over and fed to her fill and kept up in the back of the shop. Somehow or another, word spread of the poor thing through the mall and my lovely sister and her coworkers heard of it. I don’t know who had it first or what, but someone went to get it and by the end of the day it was in my sister’s care for the weekend. When I came to pick her up from work, we had the family dog with us and of course he was very interested so we had to wedge a box between us as a barrier to get them back home. I forgot to mention that this kitty went through several names in this short period of its young life. At this point it was named Chester. I didn’t particularly like this name, but wasn’t mine  to name so not my choice really.

Now... It’s a well known fact that my sister LOVES cats. She already has a crazy cat lady starter kit of her own with two cats. Well, she loves all animals really but she just loves her babies and I’m sure if she was able or got stuck with Chester she would have kept and loved this kitty all to pieces. But of course her cats weren’t so accommodating to this uninvited guest in their house when she brought it home. And seeing as I had no pets currently myself, kitty came to stay with me for the night. My bf Patri was gone away for that weekend and had no idea there was a kitty taking over his space.

Taking over Patri's side of the bed

I had been offered the kitty a couple of times but refused because I felt like my own situation is too unsure to reasonably take on the responsibility of a pet right now. I’m not sure where I will be or what I want to do at this stage in my life. Currently I’m figuring the next move out and so taking on a pet and moving it wherever with me would be complicated. In spite of of this though, I love kitties myself and this one was very, very cute and tempting. I was afraid of getting attached to it so I left it for an hour or two and went to my mother’s house. When I came back we found it sleeping on the window sill. It was good as gold until I went to bed that night and it still wanted to play at 3 am. So the first night I put it out and shut my door. I woke up the next morning to it snoozing on my vanity chair. It followed me around all morning. It was so sweet and even kissed my toes when I got out of the shower! Too funny.  I was pretty much melted then. I decided a sweet pretty kitty should have a prettier name than Chester, so I started calling it ‘Bijou’, which I believe can be translated to “kiss” in French. Of course the next night when Patri came home it nearly had him won over too I think. It followed him around all night and played sneak attacks on him from underneath the bed skirt as he walked by.

We both talked it over many times but considering our current plans and after a bit of research we agreed we shouldn’t take it. I mean SERIOUS research went on. Pet passports and Airline policies were looked up, not to mention considerations of costs for vaccinations and paperwork. People who travel with their pets, I feel sorry for all the hoops you have to go through to bring your babies! Really I do! It’s a small fortune and a headache, but I’m sure it must be worth it and your pets must thank you for being so dedicated and wonderful to take them on holiday or to live with you. Even so I would be scared the travel would stress out my pet, and then I would be stressed, and Patri would be stressed. And if something went wrong on the way, everyone including the airline people would be stressed!

Relaxing with bed all to myself... not stressed at all!

Regardless of all the “what ifs”, we don’t really have the money or the time that would be needed to get all this done for a pet right now and so it would be unfair and unreasonable to have taken it on. Although I know we’ll make wonderful pet parents someday when life is a bit more certain and grounded in one spot for us.
(┳ _ ┳) fml.

#someonesingmeSoftKitty

Meanwhile, my sister’s friends and coworkers were busy helping her find an adoptive parent for it. I went to Moncton that day for an appointment and a bit of shopping with my mom and my aunt and so I left her with Patri. By the next evening someone was found who would be its Mama and she was gone before I had returned home. I was debating it all day because I’m sure I would have kept it had I been certain of what I was doing with my life. I ended up having a fit when it was gone and cried (I get attatched really easily lol), until my sister came home and told me the particulars of who had adopted it. The girl who took it in though is apparently a cat lover and will spoil it so I’m glad in the end kitty still went to a good home. It turns out she was a girl all along! I’ve heard that her new name is Maya (much more appropriate than “Chester” I might add). Also I’ve heard that her original name was “Sky”, probably from her pretty cloudy hue, although when her old owners were found they said they didn’t want her!  (¬▂¬) WTH! ...she was gorgeous and so nice how could they?! I don’t know, I guess it’s not like they abandoned her since she followed someone out to the mall but I really wish I didn’t learn that piece of information. I know that there are many cats that end up abandoned and unwanted in this world because people have too many already. Just another reason to get your pet spayed or neutered! Anyway I hope she is very happy now in her new home even though I’ve been lamenting the fact that I didn’t keep her myself all week. I’ll get my own little ‘Bijou’ someday... when I am more settled and the timing is right. Until next time, bye-bye for meow! (^._.^)ﾉ