As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. ~ Cleveland Amory

A Happy Holiday Cat Story

So today one of my faculty relayed to me the most amazing happy story. Her mother left Buffalo where she lives to fly to Florida to visit family and I suspect, get out of the New York cold. She brought along Kitty Bear, her beloved 18 year old cat. At the rental car yard the cat escaped it’s carrier and bolted across the lot. She was distraught at losing her cat and searched for her for hours. Even seeing the cat on several occasions but never being able to grab it. Eventually giving up and going to a hotel for the night, she was supposed to be driving and staying three hours away from the airport but stayed in town to continue searching.

She got up the next morning at dawn and returned to the lot and looked for hours not finding her cat. It was at this point she called my faculty, her daughter, and in tears relayed what had happened and that she know had to give up and drive three hours to her hotel. Her daughter, trying to make her mom feel better told her it would be alright, but then got determined and told her, she would find the cat. Her mother, said it’s impossible to do that from California. But her daughter was determined, found her way to a Florida Facebook Lost Kitty page and posted about the cat.

A little while later, someone contacted her, they knew where the cat was, but they didn’t have it. Turned out, she saw the cat on a member restricted cat page on Facebook. She found a way to get my faculty access and she posted out to the page about the cat. A while later, a woman contacted her, she’d found a cat that looked like her cat on a bridge. It was sitting on a piling on the bridge sleeping, one side should it tumble off would be traffic, the other side, the ocean. This woman slipped up on and snatched the cat saving it. Thing is, the cat was 40 miles from the airport, it must have slipped into and then later out of a rental car.

My faculty called her mom, told her that she may have found the cat, told her the story and her mother hung up on her. Ten minutes later her mom called back, she was on the road and heading to get back her cat, even though it wasn’t even confirmed it even was her cat. She got the address and drove to the woman’s house and YES, it was her cat, her cat from Buffalo and it turned out, the woman’s last name was Buffalo. The woman who found the cat, a single mom, ER nurse asked for nothing for returning the cat, but the owner threw money at her for amazingly returning her cat and wished her a very, merry Christmas.

A truly amazing and uplifting story for your holiday season, have a happy day my friends. ~ Rev Kane