Do you feel compassion?

In my home we have two cats at the moment. My cat Copito that many of you already know was brought to my home by his own mother since about 7 years ago that mother adopted me. Yes, as you read, that cat came to my garden and she watched me water my plants every day.

He watched me from the street sitting on her two hind legs. At that time I had no intention of having a cat at home, my work and being constantly busy all day long prevented me from wanting to have a cat and not taking care of it.

That's how this stray cat got into my heart. I started to give her some food when she would come and stay a little longer in the garden with me. I would go into my house and she would go into hers.

But then she was getting very fat, that's what I thought at first but… she wasn't, she was pregnant. So I would leave more food on her plate in the garden and she kept staying here longer and longer.

Until she eventually had her children somewhere else and brought them here, there were 5 kittens of which only one stayed with me, my Copito, while the others left as they became older.

That's how we were left with a cat that we never wanted to have but their mother decided to leave them in my care, she died. I saw her dead in the street with a disease on her beautiful face.

Copito stayed to live here but he had his mother's habits, he was still in the street during the nights and during the day he spent it here.

And so this cat has remained free since his birth. He stays here because he wants to stay with us.

4 days ago another little kitten arrived at my house. We think it’s a tabby. He was in my garden and my son heard him, he loves animals and felt love at first sight. He called me to let me see the little cat and let him come into our living room.

The kitten came in and stayed. We are still afraid that he wants to leave but he is also free to do so. The kitten stays all day playing with whatever he can get his hands on… He climbs trees in the garden, picks a fight with Copito, climbs all the furniture in my house.

By the way, Copito is not very pleased with the presence of this cat. I think it's his feeling of belonging. He thinks he is our owner and everything in this house belongs to him too and now the new kitty must tolerate our old cat's acts of intolerance and hope that at some point he will show signs of acceptance.

This is not the first time I have had cats thrown into my yard from the street, but the kitties never stayed. My son would lovingly try to get them to stay but at night the cats would disappear. In the morning they were never here, in the living room.

My son opted to leave this cat inside the house. He put a box of litter in it. Sweet Meme we call it, which is the name I gave him, because of that letter “M” that forms on his forehead, while my son decided to call him Coco. He immediately recognized the litter box as his own and he goes there and does his business, so it turns out we adopted a cute little kitten who is very well-behaved.

He is very playful. He jumps up and down all over the house, he runs so fast that he is even hard to catch if we try to catch him running. 

He eats anything that is put in his plate! The bad thing that needs to change is that he begs a lot… He brought this habit that hopefully will change seeing our Copito.

The neighbors here have the habit of keeping their cats at home without sterilizing them, then they get pregnant and when they have the kittens the owners take them away from them and throw them away because they can't keep other cats.

As I said before, kittens have always arrived here but they never wanted to stay. Some of them were even fierce because they would make hiss with their mouths when we tried to approach us, but when we left them alone they would go away.

But this kitten has caught our attention because he is a loving kitten, very nervous. He is afraid of anything that moves and he also seems to have a defect in his right hind leg that causes his knee to fold inward into his abdomen when he walks, but that hasn't stopped him from running and climbing like he does.

My son and I feel compassion for this lonely little cat who has come to our home. Maybe he wants to adopt us. If so, he will be welcome in this house, but we don't want to curtail his freedom anyway. If he prefers he can leave whenever he wants but if he wants to stay, here he will have peace, love, company and food.

Thank you for reading and commenting on this post that has been made for your entertainment.

From @gertu13 in Venezuela.