Tigger Tales…

Posted On September 11, 2013

Hi. Bigger Tigger here.
 
 
Well, guess what! I was wandering around and I noticed that there aren’t that many cats here, so I asked Miss Marble and she said it was the dogs…the dogs ate everybody!!! I climbed the maple tree and hollered to Angie about how these dogs ate EVERYBODY!!! And did she want them to eat a TIG??!! And how I tried to warn her about dogs!!….Angie said the dogs wouldn’t eat me, and that they didn’t eat anybody else either. She told me to stop being a drama queen and that Miss Marble was pulling a Tig’s tail…. Angie said that everybody got their forever homes that live with us.  Angie said me and Marble are her cats, so we can stop trying to get families to take us home and that since I got up there, I could get myself down… (Miss Marble said she isn’t sure she wants to renew our lease cause of Angie’s attitude, so we shouldn’t rule anyone out just yet….)
  

I got down…and I asked Angie what are we gonna do now? Who is Tig supposed to write about now? Does this mean that all the kibble is Tig’s?….Angie said that she’s pretty sure she can introduce me to some new cats that might want to be friends with a handsome, smart, beautiful, elegant, svelte, graceful, Tigger like me….maybe not those words, but I knew that’s what she meant…
  

So we went to a new place….Dun Roamin’ Stray and Rescue….Angie told me this is a special group of people that help very special animals. 
  

As soon as we got there, I met Molly. She runs the joint. She is a calico like Miss Marble. She said the place would fall apart without her. She said she has to make sure all the humans are doing all the things that need doing. She said its a thankless job that never ends, but somebody’s got to do it….then she said something about smelling crumbs and had to get back to work….. The next cat I met was a guy named Omen. He said to not mind Molly, she is just very exacting in her expectations but that she is a sweet girl when her belly is full. Omen said for a Tig to never get between Molly and her food dish. Omen said she is pretty serious about meals…Omen said he is the director of public relations for this group. He said he knows every cat by name, and makes it his business to find the best homes possible for all these great cats. He said he knows everyone’s story and there is one special dude that has moved in with them, that really really needs a forever home. This is what Omen told me about Beans:
 

“Beans” came to us from Jacksonville on July 3, 2013, a stray who had come to a trailer park about three weeks previously.  People there thought his family might find him, but they eventually realized he needed help.
 
Beans was already neutered and had been declawed.  He had numerous wounds on his body, including an eight-centimetre wound on his left thigh, several two-centimetre wounds on his head, a healing wound on the side of his right ear that caused part of his ear to fall off and a huge 15-centimetre by 20-centimetre wound on the left side of his head and neck.  Half the skin had fallen off and the other half will do so soon.  He has been given pain medication and antibiotics to help treat his injuries.  Beans tested positive for FIV, a disease which is potentially transmittable to other cats.  For this reason, he must be an only cat or live with a cat who already has FIV. We hope we can find a home for him really soon – it’s high time he had a better life.
 

I said “WHAT?” “HE HAS A WHAT SIZED WOUND?!?””HIS CLAWS ARE WHERE?!?””HE IS NEUTERED TOO?!!??””ARE YOU KIDDING A TIGGY?!?!?”… Omen laughed at me, and said to calm down. He said I sound like Angie the first time she came to visit. Apparently she gets excited sometimes too….Omen said Beans is the friendliest cat around. That he is healing very nicely because of the great care he gets here from the lovely ladies upstairs. That he has the best attitude, its like he has never suffered any harm in life. Omen said all he needs is love……I said oh, that was all I needed too…..Once I met Beans I didn’t even notice he had been hurt so badly. He is such a cool cat! We talked for hours! Turns out Beans loves the same stuff as Tig!! He loves the “life of Pi” as much as me! He likes surfing and bacon and sunny spots too! Beans and I compared neuter scars and he showed me where his claws used to be, he says Dr. Shannon told him chicks dig scars, so he doesn’t worry about how he looks anymore. (Tig wishes he could be that confident in his fur.) Omen is right, he doesn’t even act like he was ever hurt or scared. He just loves everybody and he really deserves to have a whole family who will keep him safe and happy. 
 

Tiggy knows that there is someone out there who will be worthy of such a great cat like Beans. All you gotta do to take him home is go to DunRoamin’ Stray and Rescue and follow the directions that will lead you to BEANS!
 

Angie wanted me to tell you they have dogs that need adopting too. There. She can’t say I didn’t tell you!

Ciao, Tig