It was fate.
I grew up in a dogs-only house. No Cats Allowed! Well, as it turns out, both my mother and father had a special cat in their childhoods (they were farm kids, so these were "barn cats"), and when they lost their special friend it hurt so bad that they both (independently) decided to never have cats again. But I always thought I was a dog person who liked cats too.
But I married a cat lover, and one night we talked about how much we missed having pets, but we couldn't afford the deposit yadda yadda yadda. The next night Ophelia was trapped in our wall. Two days later we thought we lost her (that she had snuck out somehow) and brought Trent home. I've been an obsessed, crazy cat lady ever since.
I grew up in a dogs-only house. No Cats Allowed! Well, as it turns out, both my mother and father had a special cat in their childhoods (they were farm kids, so these were "barn cats"), and when they lost their special friend it hurt so bad that they both (independently) decided to never have cats again. But I always thought I was a dog person who liked cats too.
But I married a cat lover, and one night we talked about how much we missed having pets, but we couldn't afford the deposit yadda yadda yadda. The next night Ophelia was trapped in our wall. Two days later we thought we lost her (that she had snuck out somehow) and brought Trent home. I've been an obsessed, crazy cat lady ever since.