I am excited. Now that my schedule is more open, I have finally gotten myself to the local humane society which has a shelter for cats and filled out an application to be a volunteer. It looks like I’ll be helping to socialize the ‘3rd floor cats’, cats that were feral and have been at the shelter for awhile. They are working with them so that they will be more used to people and hopefully be adopted some day.
I visited the shelter and saw the cute kittens and adult cats for adoption. So many sweet cats. The shelter is very clean and you can tell how much they care about the well-being of the cats there. Then I got to go up to the 3rd floor and see the shy cats. I got to feed chicken baby food to some of them from my finger. One cat let me pet him while he ate (a testimony to the volunteers that have been working with him), and maybe about 10 others let me offer my finger and licked off the baby food. It made me feel so good. I can’t wait to go through orientation so that I can start doing weekly visits.
It was so good to be with the cats. I have been without a cat for 8 months now, and I miss having one. I will be checking out the cats at the shelter. Who knows how long before I bring home a new feline companion (or two).
I am also seeing other cats this week. The end of August is the busy season for pet sitting and I still have a few cat sitting clients. So I’ll be feeding some of my cat friends this week.