Good news at the shelter

We've had a lovely white long-haired cat for a number of months now.  She has been extremely shy, hiding wherever she could and resisting being taken out of her cage.  However, she was declawed and was somebody's baby (who had to give her up when they went in a nursing home, I believe). 

She got adopted last week!  I knew she loved being held on a lap, and she talked to me some, but everyone else was saying she was so shy she couldn't possibly go to anything but a quiet, one-cat home without kids or dogs or anything.  These people had all three.  But they said she got home, spent one day in a cage talking to everyone, and when she was let out, she made up with the "dog from h***," talked to everyone in the house, and jumped on the couch with the family and sprawled among them.

Goes to show you never can tell...

What a marvel! I suppose she recognized this was a home situation, not the shelter any longer.

And cats do very often have a knack for pleasing themselves into a home. Even some semiferales do so.

I think it is even possible the dog was a triggering factor, making old memories return.

(DID you had dogs in this shelter?)

Good proceeding!

Awwww, that's a really upbeat story! It's so good to hear that a cat almost everybody thought couldn't adapt proved them wrong.

Oh Mike - thanks for sharing this wonderful story . It is SOOOOO true - very hard to label the cat's in the shelter environment. They can be so different once in a home. I have seen it many times over the year's. There was a cat that was so aggressive to other cat's in the shelter free-cat room and everyone said he could NEVER go to a home with another cat. WELL after two year's, someone came along and fell in love with this boy - they had another female cat about the same age. The shelter decided to let him try. IT WORKED And they became best friend's. So you can never know for sure how a shelter cat will behave once in a home GREAT STORY