Neighbour making formal noise complaint.

[dancing cloud]

A year ago this weekend I adopted my lovely Loki-cat from the local sanctuary, and I'm feeling the need to share the celebrating!

 

I wanted a companion for middle-aged spoiled princess Tubby Puddy and thought she'd feel least threatened by a young male cat so, having passed the interrogation process, off I went to the shelter to meet a particular cat they thought would fit the bill. That cat left me in no doubt that I was not the special person he wanted (they arrived and adopted him two weeks later) and so I got to meet every other potential adoptee the shelter had. Once they'd decided I was fit to have a cat, I wasn't getting out of there without one!

 

While I was kneeling on the floor chatting to the cats generally, one of them walked on to my knee, looked at me like I was the most wonderful thing he'd ever seen, curled up in my arms and went to sleep, purring all the while. I was taken to see other cats and came back to see this one, and he did exactly the same thing again, this time trying to snuggle under my coat. I had been chosen! (or, as someone at work put it, I'd got my coat and I'd pulled )

 

Named Loki by me, after the Norse god of mischief, he's about two years old now and a gorgeous gentle boy, with the sweetest nature, who still enjoys his cuddles. He adored Tubby Puddy on sight (it wasn't mutual ) and loved his hens when they arrived in May . He spent a lot of the summer just hanging out with them in the garden, and now he sits on the windowsill in the kitchen and watches them in their yard until it's playing-out time.

 

I'll never know why someone gave him up (the form just said "unable to care for him"), but I'm very grateful to them they did and that they took him to the shelter for adoption

 

Here's Loki playing hide and seek with Dandelion in summer

 

 

And here he is, just being himself

[Lydia]

He's a lucky boy!

[Seagazer]

How lovely that he chose you - it was obviously meant to be. He looks just like my Sophie, I love tabbies. I must get around to putting the cats photos on my signature.

 

I hope you have many, many years together

[poachedegg]

Congratulations!

[ruth1]

He is an absolutely gorgeous boy and obviously happy to own you .

[Redwing]

He is beautiful, what a sweetie

[mostin]

He is a beautiful boy, I was chosen by my Jakey cat at the RSPCA. They never let you forget that they chose you , and I think it always feels very special.

[Olly]

Oh he's gorgeous, and looks identical to my handsome Wellington, apart from one ripped ear (he won't walk away from a fight).

 

How lovely that he 'chose' you. I'm still dithering about getting a second cat ... perhaps in the spring.

[Joojoo]

What a gorgeous boy and what a lovely story.

[Omletina Kyckling]

Oh what a lovely story and what a handsome boy (I would say that because he's very like my Ludwig!) - some things are just meant to be, aren't they?

[bellekatz]

He's a lovely boy!