I gave the right answer when the cat lady at the competing cat rescue place – Mewtopia – casually asked me if I was looking for an indoor cat or an outdoor cat.
“Indoor, of course,” I said, with a slight shudder and a touch of horror in my voice, as if one would have to be insane to consider letting a cat outdoors.
I had no idea there was so much snow in Siam that the cats had to adapt to it.Source: http://www.pusscats.com/Snowshoe_Cat_4.jpg
“Good,” she said with relief. “We only let cats be adopted to indoor-only people.”
I had already emailed this place after finding it on petfinder.com (thanks to Ilene, the bodacious red-headed pediatrician). They showed several Siamese cats on the site, but nonprofits usually aren’t that good about keeping their websites current, so I didn’t want to go until I was sure they still had them. A volunteer emailed me back that there were indeed some Siamese cats in residence, so I went there today at lunch to meet them.
I am a total pushover for a hard-luck story. “This is Tucker,” said Lydia, the cat lady, as she showed me a beautiful showshoe Siamese. “He has lived here half his life.” Half his life in a cage. That is awful. I decided this was the cat I would have to take home.
So I will leave work early today and pick up my new cat (well, new to me, but really, a used cat) and go home.
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