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So glad to see what used to be treated as a feral cat coming up to me to give me head bonks and cuddles this morning at the cat sanctuary where I volunteer.
He was entire when he was hit by a vehicle and was taken to the vets. Apparently he would hiss and scratched, and the staff had to wear gauntlets to protect themselves. When he was operated to fix his injuries, he was castrated at the same time.
The vets asked the owner of the cat sanctuary if she would take him in, and she did, and kept him isolated in a pen where a FIV kitty used to lived and died recently.
Everyone took precautions, as forewarned by the vets, no direct eye contact, low voice, kept our distance etc. etc... Slowly and surely, this beautiful ginger tabby kitty, a British short hair of some sort I believe, started to warm to people. Eventually he was taken into the conservatory to stay with other kitties in the sanctuary, with no reported issue of fights or anything.
Today was the first time he came up to me voluntarily, to give me head bonks and cuddles.
He is completely transformed in just over a month. To this day, I am certain he was deliberately left behind by his previous owners, and had to fend for himself after being kept in a life of luxury, and got very angry in the process.
He is probably my second favourite kitty at the sanctuary, after a very affectionate old boy that is 19yo living his last remaining days in a happy and loving environment.
They cheered me up today (cats do all the time) after discovering one of the kitties in the pen that I looked after had died a couple of days ago. The remaining cats were notably more quiet and subdued, probably missing their friends. I have never seen the cat that had died as apparently it was very nervous and dislike people.
DK
He was entire when he was hit by a vehicle and was taken to the vets. Apparently he would hiss and scratched, and the staff had to wear gauntlets to protect themselves. When he was operated to fix his injuries, he was castrated at the same time.
The vets asked the owner of the cat sanctuary if she would take him in, and she did, and kept him isolated in a pen where a FIV kitty used to lived and died recently.
Everyone took precautions, as forewarned by the vets, no direct eye contact, low voice, kept our distance etc. etc... Slowly and surely, this beautiful ginger tabby kitty, a British short hair of some sort I believe, started to warm to people. Eventually he was taken into the conservatory to stay with other kitties in the sanctuary, with no reported issue of fights or anything.
Today was the first time he came up to me voluntarily, to give me head bonks and cuddles.
He is completely transformed in just over a month. To this day, I am certain he was deliberately left behind by his previous owners, and had to fend for himself after being kept in a life of luxury, and got very angry in the process.
He is probably my second favourite kitty at the sanctuary, after a very affectionate old boy that is 19yo living his last remaining days in a happy and loving environment.
They cheered me up today (cats do all the time) after discovering one of the kitties in the pen that I looked after had died a couple of days ago. The remaining cats were notably more quiet and subdued, probably missing their friends. I have never seen the cat that had died as apparently it was very nervous and dislike people.
DK
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