Well, our newest family member may not be quite as beautiful as Jennifers precious little bundle, but we fell in love with him when we saw him! Ten days ago I took the children over to Petsmart to see the animals there, and I fell in love with one of the cats they had there. They had two kittens in the window but they just didn't appeal to me at all. Yet in one of the windows there was this gorgeous saggy old bagpuss style pussycat. He was silver with these gorgeous eyes that watched me. He put his paw up to the glass at me and watched me walk by. I thought he looked stunning.
Petsmart don't sell cats and dogs themselves - the animals they have are all adoptables from the rescue centres in the area. I read the information about this cat. His name was Grayson, he was about 6 years old. Great with children and other cats and dogs. He had been found as a stray in December. Lived with a foster family until January and had been in Petsmart since then!!!!
I watched him for a while and then we went home.
On the Wednesday night after the farmers market, we returned to Petsmart with lloyd and went in and spent some time with Grayson and one of his workers in the little room they have there. He was gorgeous - so friendly. The lady there said she couldn't understand why he was still there - he is so lovely - so cuddly and friendly. He loves to play and cuddle. She said that they have had plenty of people come and spend time with him and they all go home 'think about it' and then don't come back - and she wasn't sure why but she thinks they all want kittens - being that he is 6 years old she thinks maybe the adoption fee is too high these days for an older cat to be considered.
Anyway, we did the same thing - we went home and thought about it! Only because we knew we were going on holiday and we didn't think it was fair to get a new cat and then have a 'stranger' come and look after him a day later. So we decided to take a gamble and say that if Grayson is still there when we get back from holiday then he was meant to be ours!!!
So we got back last night and this morning Lloyd and I headed to Petsmart to see if he was still there! And he WAS!! He was curled up asleep in his little cubicle! Waiting for us! Grayson has been at the store for so long that all the staff know him so well and they were all so excited to see him go to a new home that they all had to come and say goodbye and meet us! They were all thrilled he was leaving :) It was lovely :)
We told the children we were going grocery shopping so they weren't expecting us to come back with him this morning..or at least weren't sure! So they were so happy! And Grayson was so funny - he literally walked from room to room and did a tour of the house including the bathrooms and checked out the entire house to see what was what :) and all the children followed him to watch :)
He's been here a good couple of hours now and has had something to eat, something to drink and used his litter tray...snooped about the house and enjoyed having a LOT more space to move around in. The children have calmed down a lot and hopefully it won't be long before he finds somewhere to curl up and have a nap :)
Welcome home Grayson :)
