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If you’ve known me long enough you know I’m an animal lover. As a kid my sisters and I would rescue stray & injured cats, birds, bunnies, squirrels, raccoons and even snakes. We’d nurse them back to health and some would stay and some we’d have to turn loose.
I still have to feed the strays that come by the shop. There’s usually one or two that I feed at any given time. Some are wonderlusts and just roam the neighborhood because they really DO belong to somebody else. But I can always tell the ones that have lost their way.
There’s been this one scroungy soul that has been visiting the food dish for the last several months. He’s a very pale orange Tabby cat and he reminds me of the poor old guy we had as a kid. That cat had 18 lives and we named him Pinky. So I secretly named this kitty Pinky too. I don’t usually name cats but this one struck a cord.
Week after week I’d see him slinking around the one side of the shop. Sometimes I’d catch him catnapping on a pile of oak leaves in the sun. Sometimes I’d catch a glimpse of him at the food dish. Ever so slowly he was getting a little braver and he would sit at the side of the porch and watch as I refilled his food and water dishes. One morning he was on the porch waiting for me as I pulled in the parking lot but ran as soon as I opened the gate. As the weeks went on that too would change and he would come closer to the dish as I filled it but shyed away if I came too close.
This morning was different.
I put the food in the dish, he came over while my hand was still in the dish and he nudged my hand away! He did that twice and I thought then that I’d try to rub his head. HE LET ME! He was so happy and so starved for attention. He timidly slinked into the shop by the front door and stopped but rolled on his side by my feet. I sat there for several minutes stroking and petting him. He meowed and purred the whole time, telling me this is what he’s wanted all these months but was so afraid.
Pinky
It’ll be fun getting to know Pinky Lee!
~*~I’m Okay now Dad, two’s enough~*~
Hi, I was at your lovely store just over a week ago (I was the one from England). What a lovely story about Pinky, a lucky boy to be given a home. Loved all my purchases, although would have liked to have bought more! Hoping to return in the future.
I think Pinky needs a Fan Page! He’s now resting on the screened porch at the house. He comes home with me over the weekends and lives with my other kitty Dan out there. Sometimes it goes well and sometimes it doesn’t but I feel he’s safer with Dan than fending for himself at the shop.
Donna, that’s wonderful that you’re giving Pinky “Lee” a loving new place to visit &/or live. Don’t you just love cats!!!! As you know, I love to take in little souls that need some food and lovin’…. just can’t resist any cats.
Love your website, your little stories, pictures, etc. Keep up the FANTASTIC work!
Lydia
I love your story about Pinky…………….
Oh, he is so pretty! Yep, Pinky Lee found himself a good home. Will have to stop by and meet him one day soon.
Ahh that is so sweet. I like your writing Donna.Give Pinky some love from me.
Pinky is a keeper Big Sis!