A few weeks ago for #ThrowbackThursday I shared my wonderful brother Skylers rescue story...today I will share my beloved brother Joeys! (Im sure that many of you have heard it before, but it is worth it to share again!) Our mom saved her first two cats in June 2011...isnt it crazy to think that our family has now doubled in size! She knew that she wanted to rescue two cats from the Animal Care & Control (ACCT) shelter in Philadelphia and that she wanted at least one kitten. Joey was a tiny kitten, the runt of his litter, and he was the only one left with his mom, Delilah. He was so adorable! Delilah was beautiful but so skinny and scared; she was actually the one who picked our mom, because she locked eyes with her all the way across the cat room at the shelter and never looked away. She meowed right to her even when other people were by her cage...she just knew that it was meant to be! From such a tiny, scrawny little man, Joey sure grew by leaps and bounds once he and Delilah joined their forever home! He is a very tall man now, thirteen pounds of muscle, and has dwarfed his mom since he was just a few months old. He has a very special place in our moms heart because he got very sick with a kitty cold at the shelter (he seemed healthy then but was sick just a few days later; it is unfortunately very common due to the stress of being in the shelter), and she nursed him back to health. He also had a heart murmur but fortunately outgrew that...and its no wonder, with how gangly he grew to be! What a delight it was for our mom to watch him grow up into the kind and fair king of the castle that he is today. I am six months older than Joey, so at the time that my mom was saving her first two cat family members, I had already spent months in the research lab, and, unbeknownst to me, I still had two and a half more years to go. My mom really wishes that she had saved me when I was a kitten! It is hard for her to think about the time that I was trapped at the terrible lab when I could have been spending it ALL with my loving family, but when she feels sad she just reminds herself how blessed she is to have me now. I also tell her every day with my kisses, snuggles, and gentle purrs that I really do not worry about the bad times that I had before...I am completely present in the wonderful life that I have now, of which Joey is a very big part!
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:38:22 +0000
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