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| Mrs. Abigail Gray |
To me there is no other picture that depicts how happy Mrs. Gray is. Her list of options was short when I first heard that there was a mother cat with five babies, ravaging the garbage bins in town to find food for herself and her little ones. If it was going to take anything to get me to jump into developing a TNR program with both feet, this was it! I realized that if Animal Control got them, their future was bleak. I think back at the days, weeks, months and years that I trudged thru rain, snow and heat to make sure there was food in their little feeding station and to stick around to visit and build trust. I watched the numbers reduce really quite quickly (isn't that the point of TNR?). We will never know what became of Jenny, Tony, McGee and Palmer, but having Mrs. Gray and Zeva stay has been a blessing. I will never forget the first day Mrs. Gray followed me home. Zeva followed not long after. They are HOME here and that warms my heart. I doubt I will ever really hold either one of them in any place other than my heart...but having them nuzzle me and wind their way around my legs, to see the happiness and the peace they have, makes physically holding them insignificant. They show me love in so many ways. I am their "person" and I now count them as family.
