Happy July everyone! Adam is enjoying the warmer weather and hopes that you had a very enjoyable Fourth of July!
Things have been pleasantly quiet in Suite A, with no medical news to report for Adam. He is still walking a little funny, but this seems to be a new normal for Adam. It doesn’t seem to be bothering him and there is no discernable reason for his funny gait, except to say that this is Adam!
By all accounts, Adam’s also been quite well behaved with both his suitemates and with visitors. He spends his days alternating between being an inside boy and going out into the solarium. Since the arrival of Dingo and Nigel Vincent to Suite A, the group dynamic of the solarium has changed a little bit. Rose is still always out in the solarium, but Adam and Pepita seem to go back and forth and Nigel and Dingo seem to have become mostly solarium dwellers.
Adam has done a good job this month of greeting visitors. He is being much more polite and is actually curious about people as opposed to just seeing them as another tree to climb.
Adam did a wonderful job helping me out of a little delicate situation a few weekends ago. I had a new boy come to be part of the Paws to Read program and he did not have the greatest experience with the Tabby’s Place cats while he was reading. I tried to put him in rooms with some of the most reliable cats to read to, the ones that are mellow and easy-going. It was not meant to be that day. First I tried the “Diva Girls” (Virginia, Macaroon, Reese and the others that live in one of the offices). Usually they are so easy for the kids to relate to. Unfortunately, a new cat, Missy, had just moved in and everyone was a bit on edge getting used to their new friend. We only stayed a minute or two in that room because the girls were just hissing at each other and swiping at me when I tried to pet them and introduce them to this little boy and his mom.
Luckily not much. But he did complain that one of kittens scratched him. It was so strange to have this many problems in one day with groups of cats that are always reliable with visitors.
At this point, I felt that I really needed to make it up to this child so that he would want to come back and not have a negative view of cats.
Luckily he was my only reader that hour and it was the end of the day anyway, so I took the boy and his mom on a quick tour of Tabby’s Place. I decided to take them into Suite A’s solarium so they could meet Nigel, who is absolutely snuggly and I knew would be the perfect end to this child’s visit. When we got to the solarium, Adam was right there to greet us. At first I was very nervous, because I didn’t totally trust Adam to not continue the problems that had been plaguing this child the whole time he had been there. But Adam was wonderful. He purred and rubbed on the boy and his mom. There was no bad behavior and he was as sweet as pie. When they left, they ended up loving Adam and feeling that they had had a good time at Tabby’s Place. Thank goodness! I think the staff children who have been reading to Adam have helped to make him feel really comfortable around kids and it really helped in this situation. I was so proud of our boy!
Adam wishes to send his thanks to you for everything that you do for him. He is so well taken care because of kind souls like yourself. He wanted to take a moment and let you know about Tabby’s Place’s Linda Fund. It is a special fund that is set up to help cats who need specialized medical treatments or surgery. For the next month, there is a matching donation for every dollar that is raised for the Linda Fund. You can find out more about this at www.tabbysplace.org. Adam has been helped by the Linda Fund when he needed an endoscopy. He is so grateful that he could be helped and he knows how wonderful it is that other kitties can be helped as well.
Adam and I hope you enjoy these beautiful summer days. We will have another installment of the Adam story next month.