I guess it wasn't meant to be

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Registered: 07-20-2004
I guess it wasn't meant to be
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Fri, 08-06-2004 - 8:04am
The shelter manager e-mailed me that Mansi got adopted the other night. A woman came in looking for an older cat and just fell in love with her. I kept telling her that if anyone came along to go ahead and persue it. She'll let me know if she returns to the shelter for any reason.

DH said we could go up and look around for another cat. I hadn't been looking for a cat. I just fell for this one. I guess it was for the best. Three seems to be my magic number for cats.

Thanks all for your thoughts and words of kitty wisdom.

Renee'

 

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Registered: 12-01-2003
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 8:47am
Well the good is she got a homne and there are so many more you can get that need a home!! Hope that helps!!

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Fri, 08-06-2004 - 10:12am

I'm sorry Renee'.


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Fri, 08-06-2004 - 5:36pm
I felt that way a few months ago... I kept seeing this older orange cat on my local shelter's web site. He was 10 years old so I guess nobody wanted him. He was in foster care because he was very sad and depressed in the shelter, but in May (I think) his foster dad left the country and he had to go back to the shelter. I kept following his story on the website, and found out that he quickly became sad and depressed again. I dropped hints to DBF, but he wouldn't go for it - he said one cat was enough. One day, I saw on the webpage that the kitty had been transferred to an adoption centre at the petstore a few blocks from my work! I dawdled a few days, thinking ont the one hand, I would loooove to visit him and try to cheer him up, but on the other hand, I was was so scared that I would leave feeling worse for him than I did before, since I couldn't take him home. Anyway, one night I made up my mind that I would do it - the next day, I would run over there on my lunch break and visit him. The next morning, I checked the website, and.... he had been transferred to another shelter out of town!! So that was that... I was never destined to meet him. I still think about him every once in a while; he touched my heart for some reason. I sure hope he found a loving home somewhere.


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Fri, 08-06-2004 - 9:46pm
I'm sorry you didn't get the cat. Sounds like she is in a loving home. I wouldn't pursue another cat just to have one, probally soon you will find one or rescue one from somewhere that also needs you. I also look at certain shelter sites. About the time I decide to adopt one that has been there forever, the cat will get adopted. Makes me sad I didn't adopt it, but then I am glad someone else did. I have alot of cats and think it would be better for the cat, more attention ect...to go to a home if possible with less cats. donna