Getting a Cat

I have been considering getting a cat for about the last 6 months, and have contacted breeders and cat rescues etc.   I really have decided that I do not want to spend around £1,000 on a pedigree, although I was considering a "Retired Queen"   I spotted a Silver Bengal at a rescue about 20 miles from me.  But he has got problems.  It seems he ran away from his last home and came back 10 days later.  He was handed into the rescue and the owners kept his brother.      It seems he is very timid and will not even mix with the cat-maids.
He is 8 years old.
In my wisdom, I have decided not to proceed with any of them.      Then last evening about 8pm I went to adjust the window blinds and spotted a cat down the end of my garden.   I said all the right things and he/she came running up the garden, in the patio door, and did the leg weaves.  I sat down and thecat jumped onto my lap, and settled down.   I was delighted.   At bed time I had to put the cat out.
I hope it comes to see me again.  Then I shall have a cat share.     Mrs Bouquet  PS.  I think it was a blue burmese.

Best of both worlds for you then, all the fun & no cost. What a shame if this had go been 2 years ago you could have considered my late mother’s 2 cats! I’d have delivered them too  . A local rescue helped find a home for both of them( not together, as they weren’t bothered about each other). It’s called Roxie’s Rescue, they’re always asking for foster homes & adoption homes, usually for older cats.

Sounds ideal, all of the fun and no responsibility.

As a devoted cat lover, when you need one it will come to you as I can well testify. A number of years ago I came home from my first chemo session and was walking around the garden in my dressing gown with my OH when I heard a little miaow. OH said I was imagining it but I was so sure that we looked around and, lo and behold, there was a little white kitten on the other side of the dyke across the road from us. Three days later, and with the assistance of his dad and a trap cage, he was brought into our home and immediately strolled out of it and settled down with our other two. Apart from tormenting our laid-back tom cat who actually put up with him so well, he became an absolute love and companion to me for the next nine months until I went back to work. One day after that he got run over but I'll never forget how providence gave me a dear friend who I will never forget.

Isn't it strange, when you need something God provides it.  In GG case a little white kitten.

I have found out who owns the cat that visited me, which I haven't seen since !!   His name is Sidney and it seems he goes into lots of homes.   I called him yesterday, but no, he has found a person with a lovely bed apparently.  The lady isn't very pleased about finding him on her bed.    Mrs B

Ahh “Six dinner Sid” lovely story book for young children that I used to love reading to my children, own & “work”. They all loved it.