Yesterday, we got our Doodle and our Crinkle!
First of all, I have to say that we didn’t get Coco because although we sent several messages in order to see her in her foster family, some older couple apparently gave a deposit to adopt her. The Protection of Animals in Wakefield Society tried to show us other cats such as Brook and Genevieve (a mother and her daughter). The daughter was an orange and white gorgeous cat. The mother wasn’t as cute: she was brown with a lot of different spots everywhere. However, as we wanted to get a pair of cats, we tried to get acquainted with them but Brook almost bit me because she is very protective of her daughter Genevieve. As a volunteer said: “They love each other a lot but nobody else.” That was not the kind of cats we were looking for but I still hope that they’ll find a nice family to adopt them. They then showed us Jacoby (named after a Baseball player). We liked him. He was a gray tiger with long hair ; he was calm and very soft. We agreed to meet him in his foster family during the week.
Nevertheless, we felt a little down. We were sad not to be able to have Coco anymore because she was the one we really liked. We decided to go back to Methuen because they had a lot of cats there and it is a fun place to hang around, pet the cats and also the rabbits.
When we got there, we first took a look at the rabbits because they have a Flemish Giant rabbit that I really like there: Wikki. But Mike and I are not ready to get a rabbit yet. We need to think about it more before taking this decision. Then we went to the area where they keep the cats. We started looking around at the cages and we stopped in front of a cage with two cats. One was gray, the other was black. The black cat was fast asleep. The gray one, however, came to the edge of the cage as soon as we stopped and he started rubbing his head against our fingers. He was very small, only 6.5 lbs as we would learn later and terribly cute: gray with white paws and a white spot under his chin. he was really affectionate, he licked our hands and bit our fingers very gently.
We decided to ask a person there if we could go to the “Get acquainted room” with the two of them. This is a room where you can get to know better the cats that you want to adopt. We stayed there for at least half an hour, petting them, playing with them. The black cat was more shy than the gray one and stayed under the chair most of the time but he liked being pet and rubbed. The gray cat was very friendly and affectionate. He would come to us and rub his head against our arms or our heads. We knew right away that we wanted them but we kept playing with them because it was so much fun.
We eventually filled out an application. We learned that Mr. Gray and Gremlin are about 1 year old and they arrived at the shelter about a week ago. They were rescued by a police officer from a house where way too many cats lived. The police officer found them so cute that she asked the shelter to be notified when they would be adopted so that if nobody was to take them, she would have taken care of them herself. After filling out our application, the girl asked us if we wanted to take them with us today. I had no idea that we could bring them home that early and I was totally delighted. We got several items for them like a litter box, some food and some toys.
They are now living with us and are getting used to their new names: Doodle (the black one) and Crinkle (the gray one). They are extremely cute and curious. They like to discover everything around the house!
