Broken Hearted Prose: Helter Shelter

[phoenixx]

*note: read with caution*

I found this through Miss Zoot, and it has me sobbing at my computer.

I am such an animal lover, and I hate, hate, hate what humans do with the gifts of love they are given in animal form.

Well written, moving piece.

[pippadaisy[$]]

Aw geez, Leslie... "read with caution...pippa, DO NOT READ."

Please. I feel bad enough that Inigo has to live in our basement because he's petrified of our kids and will attack them. But he's unadoptable, and I've been looking for a home for him for three YEARS that doesn't have kids. Every time I think I've found someone, they want a cute, cuddly, wuddly little KITTEN.

He came from the Humane Society. The evening of day four.

[theworm[$]]

You hae a cat?
Day four? what?

[pippadaisy[$]]

Shelters put animals down on day five. And yes, I have a cat. His name is Inigo and he thinks he is a dog. And he REALLY doesn't like children.

I'll tell you the story (which drives G nuts).

I went to get a cat. They had one unadoptable... an old Siamese with no teeth. I went to get HIM but someone had already adopted him. They had this one cat scheduled to be put down the next day. Abandoned at the shelter. growled and slashed at everyone. I wanted to see him. They had to put us in a room and he hid under a desk. But when I finally caught him and petted him, he purred. So I took him.

He'd been neutered, but they left the sutures in and they had grown into his fur. His tail had been broken at some point, and has a "crook" at the end. He acts exactly like a dog, and the best we can figure is that he waswith a family of kids who may have abused him, because he does NOT like children. But he';ll come when called, sit, beg, and roll over.

[theworm[$]]

aw - he sounds sweet.

[mtomm[$]]

I'm a pretty tough nut but that story really was a tear jerker and very well done. We are spayed at our house.