As some of you may know, I volunteer with a local rescue and I look after our PetSmart "storefront" adoptable kitties once a week, sometimes more. Sometimes I just go visit.
We had a litter of kittens come in and four of them were just languishing there in the store. I looked after them for two months and finally, our director pulled them to give them a break.
Then I went out on leave b/c of surgery. I hadn't seen these kittens (who are 8 mos old now) for six weeks. But two of them are back in the storefront now, the other two are still in foster care.
The two, I called Pitzie and Shy-Shy, remembered me, especially Pitz! Boy oh Boy did I get a greeting!
He climbed out onto me, purring his head off, rubbing, pushing, head bumping, meowing, up on his hind paws and bumping me on the mouth with his nose/mouth, studying my face, rolling on his belly for skritches and kissing my hands, climbing in my lap and purring, purring, purring!!!!
His sister, who comes by her nickname honestly, took a little longer to warm up, but she remembered too and by the time I was there for a half hour, she was climbing out onto me and head pushing and nose-kissing me, perching on my shoulder. Etc.
Pitz perched, too, he's too big for that...!!!! He's gonna be a good sized boy when he's done maturing. 12-13 lbs easily if not more.
I cannot tell you how thrilled I was to get that reaction. Another volunteer came by and I said, "Gail, they remember me!" and she said, "of course they do. They remember who's good to them!"
We had a litter of kittens come in and four of them were just languishing there in the store. I looked after them for two months and finally, our director pulled them to give them a break.
Then I went out on leave b/c of surgery. I hadn't seen these kittens (who are 8 mos old now) for six weeks. But two of them are back in the storefront now, the other two are still in foster care.
The two, I called Pitzie and Shy-Shy, remembered me, especially Pitz! Boy oh Boy did I get a greeting!
His sister, who comes by her nickname honestly, took a little longer to warm up, but she remembered too and by the time I was there for a half hour, she was climbing out onto me and head pushing and nose-kissing me, perching on my shoulder. Etc.
Pitz perched, too, he's too big for that...!!!! He's gonna be a good sized boy when he's done maturing. 12-13 lbs easily if not more.
I cannot tell you how thrilled I was to get that reaction. Another volunteer came by and I said, "Gail, they remember me!" and she said, "of course they do. They remember who's good to them!"
