Blue

We could make dozens of guesses about this “stray” cat, but all we know is that, for a year or so, she was a subscriber to a “homeless cat canteen”. Not daily, but often. Everybody expected her to go back to her home at some point because, usually, cats like her, blue-eyed and “purebred”, still have someone, somewhere. True, they are better taken care of – with some exceptions though. But she kept showing up, literally gorging herself – sometimes 400 grams of food for one meal. After a while, she started to lose weight, and the belly grew and grew. She disappeared for a couple weeks and people who fed her said… she’d gone home. But she showed up again, no belly and no kittens, weak, hungry and looking pitiful. Owner or no owner, purebred or not, you can’t look at something like that and do nothing – and even so, it should have been much sooner, anything could have happened to her in these months on the streets, especially as she’s friendly, clingy and very beautiful on top of it.

We took her in and hospitalized her, first of all to have her spayed, she had a tummy – but it was a false alarm. It turned out she was about 3 years old, and she had some digestive problems. She has been treated, dewormed, spayed and vaccinated, and we have seriously thought she would be adopted fast. We also asked around the area where she lived, some people had even saw her 5 blocks away, but no one knew anything about her, no one claimed her. Then, around October or November last year, she first vomited… blood 

We started the trips to the vet, she was hospitalized for a while and received treatment. We kept her separated for a while, on diet, but in the shelter you can’t keep her like that forever: she cried, wanted to get out. There could have been more than one cause, so we even asked for endoscopy / colonoscopy in January 2024. Luckily, no cancer, no ulcer, probably a food intolerance. Not surprising, as she only ate what she found or got when she came to the table, otherwise he must have starved. Now we give her diet only rarely but for it to be just and only special food, we would have to lock her up for a long, long time, but this girl is downright miserable in 4 square meters. So we don’t and she is doing just fine! In 9 months (up to the day we are writing this), she vomited 2 or 3 times, we gave her something for stomach protection and that was it. Some more diet food would help probably in the long run, but she is doing fine also without it.

We call her Blue or Blueberry or “Blue Blue Blue I love you” She’s not small cat, and now that someone is taking care of her and she’s off the streets, she looks extremely good – to us at least, a vet would probably say she’s even overweight. A cat like glue, with people: she likes to be spoiled, petted, caressed, worshipped, but she doesn’t really like being held. With cats… she got used to them and we never saw her fight, even though she’s more to herself, minding her own business. We couldn’t say she’s a “finesse”, because she sometimes jumps on a ledge or a countertop and either falls or knocks everything over – “like a bull in a China shop” would often fit her. And with all the love in the world we say this: Blue is a naive cat, funny with those eyes a bit crossed. Although she has everything she wants – except her home and her family, Madame Blue would still go to sit for hours on a window sill and look out, as if she wanted to just go away on the streets again. Or perhaps she sees something interesting, we don’t know, we haven’t been able to discover the exact reason. Probably all her life she’s been on the streets and she misses going for walks, or she’s simply bored.

But the problem is simple: if she wants to live, she has to stay indoors. She doesn’t seem to be a street-smart cat at all, she was just lucky to survive and lucky that the years on the streets don’t seem to have left their mark, to have made her fearful or frightened: she’s always… zen. Oh, and she jumps like a little goat when she wants to go into the kitchen. Up, up, up, as if she wanted to get on the handle, but make no mistake: she wants you to open the door for her, she doesn’t make a lot of effort to do it herself )

We love Blue a lot, really a lot, but she needs a home, a caring, loving family, who will give her more time than we can, spoil her rotten, who will give her good food – especially that she likes her stomach :-p – or even diet if she needs it in the future, supervise her health and take her to the vet if she has to go. Don’t get us wrong, we hope we did solve her digestive problems for good, and we did give her that and all the vet care and checks she needed, even very expensive ones, but you actually never know what the future brings – for cats or people alike. After all, we will never get younger or healthier in time, do we? Anyway, we are at peace for doing everything for her and it will be very hard to let Blue go, knowing her so well by now and knowing what she’s been through. And if loving Blue so much means we will have to let her go, we will gladly do it knowing she will go HOME! She so deserves t have her own special place and her even more special family!