Just A "Look" kitty rescue by Amy Guerette Tiverton, RI (Little Cecilia - named after the slain lion

[Omaha Steve]

http://theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/ars/story/just-a-look049?




This was supposed to be the best year of our lives. My husband and I were married in October and we were looking forward to what the future would bring. Neither of us expected to lose both our furbabies in the same year. In early January, my nearly 15 year old beloved cat Chloe passed away from a heart murmur complication. Then in the middle of June we lost our senior dog, Sumo.

After grieving I was ready for a new friend. My husband finally caved and let me drag him to a local no-kill shelter where we went just to "look". Initially I was looking for the exact OPPOSITE of my Chloe - I wanted a boy with long fur. As I was looking to a DLH a tiny black paw batted at me from a cage. I gave the little kitten an ear scritch and went back to looking at the DLH. The little black paw waved more franticly and a tiny meow accompanied it. A pair of amber eyes looked up at me and I asked if I could hold her. From the moment me and my husband held her we knew we found the new fur baby for us. Little Cecilia - named after the slain lion Cecil- wrapped us both around her little paw and came home with us as soon as our application was cleared. Little Kitty CeCe, as I call her, is a delight. Shelters have an abundance of black kitties....push aside superstitions and give them a chance. She brought sunshine into our hearts and home, and in her I see a little bit of my other two fur babies.

Amy Guerette
Tiverton, RI


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[trueblue2007]

1. YOUR Cecilia looks like my Sophie who is in Cat Heaven. CeCe is a beauty.

[Warpy]

2. Pocket Panthers

is what black cat lovers call their dark and dignified furkids.

The cat has no idea what color s/he is. Always remember that when finding a new friend. Fur color has very little to do with who the kitty turns out to be, except calicos and torties do tend to be pretty wild women.

[shenmue]

3. Skweeeeeeee!

Thank u, adopters!!

[roguevalley]

4. BLACK CATS! THAT! I love them. I have a hairy little black kitten that I rescued last

year who is going to be tiny forever. PERMANENT KITTEH! It doesn't get better than that.

[Demeter]

5. An Adoption Serenade for your new kitty

[meow2u3]

6. CeCe picked her

Cute black kitty alert!!!!

[Curmudgeoness]

7. Yeah, I was just "looking" at cats too.

And yeah, one of them just showed me too much love right off the bat. I do suppose that "looking" does mean that we are ready, even if I thought that I wasn't yet.

And for the DLH, long haired cats are much more of a pain in the backside. Swore I would never have another long hair after having two.

Here's Leila:

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[tblue37]

9. LITERALLY in the backside, when they have poop problems! nt

[Curmudgeoness]

10. We just did a bath and clipping yesterday

on just the back end. Unfortunately, the reason that I got Leila was because she has neurological problems from being shot as a kitten and leaks urine when she is asleep. She was going to be put down because her owner couldn't take it any longer....I can understand that, since it is difficult. So I do have a "butt" problem.

[tblue37]

12. Both my long hairs (both 10 years old) get diarrhea sometimes,

so I keep their backsides clipped.

[pansypoo53219]

14. i find long hairs shed far less than short hair tabbies. i keep them inside & try to nip a hair matt

as soon as it forms. jeez. my short hair tabby now gets matts. luckily they can almost be pulled out.

[Curmudgeoness]

18. Leila sheds CONSTANTLY.

It isn't one hair here and one hair there all over the place.....it is big clumps everywhere that she lays for more than five seconds. And she is brushed every day. High maintenance fur baby!

[shanti]

15. cute kitty! persian?

my boy, manny, kept rubbing up against the cage and meowing at me at the shelter, so i picked him. he and his sister are "medium haired" cats, but they both have that damn double coat and shed like a mug all year long! it's a neverending job to keep the place clean with all that fur!

my next cat will have a sleek single coat like a siamese, guaranteed!

[Curmudgeoness]

19. Guaranteed!!!! LMAO.

That sounds just like me, and look what I ended up with! Long hair, high maintenance, fur all over the house.

Yes, she is a Persian. And that is the last thing that I ever wanted. I would never want a Persian, I would never want a purebred, I would never want a cat with all the problems that the deformed face brings. Life happens. I had to do it.

[Omaha Steve]

20. Thanks for posting

Very pretty.

[tblue37]

8. One of my cats picked me when I went to a rescue event to look at another cat I'd

been emailing the rescue about.

My kitty was almost 9 months, while the one I was interested in was just 5 months old. Mine is long-haired, but I wanted a short-haired cat because I hate having to deal with long hair when the cat has poop problems. I was wanting a Siamese, or at least a Siamese looking mixed breed, but the cat who chose me is a dilute calico Turkish Angora.

I would never call a cat "Paris," but her foster mom had named her that, and since she already responded well to the name, her foster mom asked me to keep it. Although she admitted that my Paris actually was named after the heiress, I've always claimed she was named after the city. Since my daughter had married a Frenchman, and since a month later I ended up with another rescue cat I named "Tango," to hint at the tangerine shade of her tortie orange, NOT because of the movie, everyone has accepted my fib about Paris's name.

(Actually, I didn't even think of the Brando film when naming Tango. I just thought it sounded better as a kitty name than "Tangerine." A friend eventually mentioned the film, assuming that's why I gave her the name. I wouldn't have deliberately referenced that film, though, because I didn't really care for it.)

Anyway, Paris chose me. Fortunately, the Siamese kitten I had gone to see was being adopted by another family as I left with Paris, so he didn't lose out on a forever home that day. Now, 10 years later, my Paris is the oldest--and the dominant--kitty in my 4-cat household.

[hifiguy]

11. Cats pick their people, not the reverse.

A month after my Max passed I couldn't stand being in a catless home anymore and went back to the shelter where I got him.

The two cats I'd pre-picked on the website were already adopted and too skittish, respectively. So I sit there in the waiting area and this big ol' Turkish Van looking fella plops down on the next chair and gives me the "you've seen the rest, now check out the best" look. We took immediately to each other and home he came. I have no question Butch picked me, none at all.

[Moral Compass]

13. She's pretty

I wish my wife was not allergic to cats. I'd love to adopt one.

Beautiful kitty.

[Enthusiast]

16. We must have kittehs!

[secondwind]

17. Am a big fan of black kitties! What a wonderful story