We live on the outskirts of an urban area and a lot of cats are abandoned here. He was a little scruffy when we first encountered it. My wife insisted on taking it to the vet to make sure that it didn’t belong to someone else, and she was trying to find it a new home.
It was already obvious that it had grown quite a bit since it first showed up. It has a thick fluffy coat and I thought maybe it was just getting fat because it has a very good appetite. But the vet said it was not overweight; it is just a very large cat who was still very young so it will probably get bigger still. She identified it as a Siberian and said that it could go past 20 pounds.
Our teenage granddaughter is crazy about the cat and drags it all over the place when she comes to visit. The cat tries to hide from her. One might think that the cat would bite her or cut her to ribbons... but for some reason he does not.
My wife and I have been strictly dog people for the previous 35 years... So, this cat has been largely treated like a dog. It comes when it is called, and it likes to play fetch.
We had a Chihuahua for 20 years and was very old. She would chase after the cat and bark when we let her out to do her business if she saw it. The cat would take off for parts unknown for a while.
In her last days she could barely walk and had to be taken outside and then she would just sit.
About a week before she died, the cat came up to her and nuzzled her head all over the dog’s head. She didn’t bark, growl or anything. I was amazed.
It was like she knew the dog was about to go and was telling her that she would take care of us from now on....................