Pet #3

Sarah is the same age as Sam (pet #2.)

I only had Sam a couple of months

when I discovered Sarah in the back

garage. She had gotten in during

the day when the door had been left open.

She made herself right at home.

I took her to the vet and he could

approximate her age due to the

teeth that had not come in as yet.

She was just about the age Sam was!

She didn't like to be inside much and

acted claustrophobic when she was.

It took some years before she became

comfortable being inside, but not at night!

My dear, what yowling went on when I

tried to get her to stay in, even when it was

cold. I generally made a bed of towels

in a box in the garage for her to come

and go as she wanted. She was about

five when she chose to stay inside

permanently! One afternoon I had

not seen her for sometime. It got to

be about 8:00 and I was getting worried.

One more time I opened the door

and she darted in before I could even

call her! She was looking all around the

room as though something was after

her. It wouldn't be until the next day

that my neighbor said he had seen a

fox in the area. Now Sarah was one

cat who loved to go at the "speed of light"

right straight up to the top of the oak

trees in my front yard. Once to the top,

she would stand on a limb swishing her

tail back and forth just daring anything

to follow her! Have no fear, she had no

problem shimmying back down when she

was good and ready. Something tells me

that's where she must have spent most

of her day when a fox had been sighted

in the area. From that point on she would

not go outside. So, I made her inside

life one of comfort. She had a cat tower

that even the dogs envied. She had her

on self-cleaning litter pan as well as

a fresh water dish that circulated the

liquid through a filter and out into a soft

swirling collection pool. She has now

been inside going on 7 years. The

dogs don't bother her. When they come

near her, she starts a low growl while

swishing her tail as if with a warning,

"You're in my space!" It's funny to

watch them veer off the other direction

while looking out the corner of their

eyes as if they were saying, "I really wasn't going

that way anyhow." She also likes to tease them.

She will be sitting under the table and

decide to take a running streak to her cat tower

right past where they are lying down.

Of course they can't resist the challenge;

but by the time they get up, she's already

raced to the top. All the scratching noise,

just leaves them there barking at her

while she looks down from the living

room ceiling swishing her tail in success!

It's amazing how animals that in the

wild would be enemies, but are right at

home when they have human

companions. What it must have been

like in the Garden of Eden before

man decided to take matters into

his own hands. It makes me so sorrowful

for my sin as well, that the beautiful

animal kingdom had to suffer because

man decided to be "like God knowing

good from evil." Now the beautiful

animals in the wild kill one another

for food to survive. Thousands of

animals are put down daily due to

the cruelty of man. Let us all remember

to spay and neuter our animals and most

of all try to get our animals from a

shelter to prevent their death before

they have ever had a chance at life.

One day the creatures God has created

will Praise their Creator in the presence

of the Wedding feast of the Bride and Groom.

(Romans 8:21-22)