Woman Undergoing Chemotherapy Adopts A Kitten Because She Couldn’t Leave Her On The Street, And She Already Had Four Kittens At Home

"Mambo Number 5 in our cat collection."

Damjan

• Published in Animal Stories
• June 16, 2022

If you love cats, you'll understand the undeniable and completely overpowering impulse to adopt every single kitten you come across on the street. It's not something you do every time.

You won't be able to adopt all of them. But you really want to.

And, well, sometimes you just can't help yourself. When a kitten decides it's done with the outside; when a kitten decides it's time to be adopted when a kitten decides to jump into the arms of a human... if you happen to be the human of their choice... well, it means you've been adopted, and there's no turning back.

That desire is well understood by the woman in this post. All it took was viewing one image of this tiny feline in need, and she was on her way to adopting a fifth kitten into her nice small warm home, and we are grateful to her.

"June 1st, last year, I was with my daughter visiting a zoo. I receive a msg from my best friend Terri, accompanied by the picture of this scrawny...thing," the woman says.

"I know you said you don't want any more cats but I found this one blind and starving crawling and meowing in the park, heading towards the cars in the street. What should I do...?"

She knew the right answer:

The woman continues:

"The problem is, Terri, not that I don't WANT any more cats, it's that I CAN'T because of my stupid illness.

But Terri knew how to push my buttons; I kept looking at this picture and I just couldn't imagine myself saying NO to this kitty.

"FINE, Terri, keep it till we get back, I will take care of this poor thing, but you should know that I will name it after you, and I will enjoy yelling "Terri, stop pooping in my flowers!!!"

My daughter and I were very impatient now to meet this creature. I was worried because it looked really bad, probably very bad eyes or even blind... was I going to make it with this kitten?

Luckily, it was better than the vet and I thought. Because of her weird tortie pattern, her eyes looked worse than they were. After a month of bottle feeding, butt wiping, and eye cleaning, Terri turned into a pretty spoiled little miss kitten. Mambo Number 5 in our cat collection."

How it started...

“She grew up nicely and has the sweetest beans and tongue.”

"She loves to sleep on this particular carpet, probably because with her tortie design she blends into the pattern?"

"She is the contortionist in my cat family. We often have to look up closely where her head is and her butt begins."

"They all have their cardbox luxury home."

"La vitta è bella!"

"Shamelessly squatting our oldest cat's mansion..."

"For all the crazy cat lovers..."

"For all the crazy cat lovers I recommend the square on the floor experiment. You know how they like boxes.

They also seem to be interested in squares drawn on the floor. I used tape for my experiment.

At that moment only Terri and Poutpout the senior were around. They first smelled it, very intrigued.

Then they plopped around it, still observing..."

"Then voilà! The Experiment is successful."

"We even had the control subject, PoutPout."

"Ahhh life with cats is never boring."

"During my chemotherapy, I used to sleep downstairs on the couch because reasons. It was comfortable but at some point, I started having nightmares, some of them quite recurrent.

As if something was embracing me from behind (stop giggling) and pulling me to the ground. Luckily my husband noticed one day that miss Terri had made a hole in the couch and was sleeping inside it.

And the monster in my nightmare was her trying to scratch me through the couch..."

There is no such thing as having too many pets, and this woman’s example proves it. Even though you would’ve suspected that having additional pets around during difficult times would be a burden, it actually turned out to be a great help.

She had even more love and support to help her get through a difficult period.

Damjan