I can’t imagine anything better than being a Tabby’s Place cat. Maybe I lack true imagination, or maybe, just maybe (okay, completely, absolutely, totally) there actually isn’t anything better.
Recently, there was the saddest news about my beloved friend Silver, who left us almost as suddenly as she graced us with her glitter. It was this that made me think the think that is now the first line of this tale.
How wonderful that Tabby’s Place is able to welcome cats like Silver into the fold as part of the Guardian Angel Program!
How wonderful when staff members – this time the amazing Rey of sunshine – take home one little cat for a few short days to give them the very best of love and care possible for as long as possible!
At these most heart-wrenching moments, how wonderful is the light of knowing that another soon-to-be-beloved feline will be welcomed home to Tabby’s Place!
As a tour guide, I am reminded on a regular basis of just how wonderful Tabby’s Place is. Visitors exclaim and proclaim! Volunteers gush and gavotte! Cats, well…cats, man. They regularly demonstrate what it is to be enwrapped by the enfolding love that is the heart and soul of the sanctum sanctorum for cats in hopeless situations.
From the tiny little wonder that is Willow, the Kaleidoscopic Kitten of the Lobby (boosting Corduroy and Berry out of their shared position by sheer fault of growing into cathood), to 21-year-old Tux, the Greatest Grandad in Chief of All the Cats, to Malora, Goddess of Greyness and Snuggling, to every cat at Tabby’s Place, “hopeless” is massacred in a joy of destruction. HOPE is capitalized, bolded, and underlined.
Along with hope, adoptions and losses are constants in the ark that Jonathan built.
In response to need, the sturdy iron gates are flung wide open.
The doors are unlocked to welcome the bestricken, the wilting, and the desperate.
The fragile and frail, tired and hungry, aching and wounded are nestled in safety.
Once within, love is bestowed, nourishments are bequeathed, and health is restored.
There are no expectations except that each rescued feline will forever remain a Tabby’s Place cat…for once and for always.
Anything better than that is simply unimaginable.