Just when it was starting to get really cold, someone who my sister had class with was looking for somewhere they could “temporarily” keep their kitten for the winter. So Marie came to live in my mom’s office, at the time we thought it was only going to be for the winter.
Marie was about six months old at the time and had been living in their garage since they had gotten her. She had never been to the vet, not even after being backed into be a car, because “nothing felt/looked wrong”. When we brought her to the vet she had ear mites so bad that she should be deaf, soreness in her lower back from improper healing (where the car had hit), but otherwise a happy, somewhat healthy kitten. Needless to say they were never getting her back.
For a kitten who started her life in a garage, she was one of the most well behaved kitten ever. I had to wear a heart monitor for a month, when she was just over a year old, and she would not leave my side if I needed to phone a recording in. It turned out to be nothing, but since then she has become something of a therapy cat. If I am stressed or upset, she is there to calm me down and make me relax.
She is now a beautiful, huge Siberian, three year old cat. The sweetest cat we have ever had and though she is not a lap cat, she is a huge love bug. Although we were not looking for another cat at the time, we would not trade her for the world.
White Bear Lake, MN
