A Tale of 'Bobcat'

       In a world of too many unhappy endings, it's always a joy when something turns out really well, so with that in mind, I'm recounting the tale of an Abyssinian cat named

Bobcat. I never met Bobcat, but spoke to a kind-hearted woman named Hillary in Morro Bay who was trying to help him. It seems Bobcat had been living with people in the neighborhood who had, shall we say, an iffy relationship with the law and decided it to be in their best interests at some point to take off and go on the lam. They left Bobcat behind. Formerly an indoor cat, he was understandably traumatized and had been living under the porch of his former home. He was also an intact male.

      Hillary, who turned out to be his guardian angel, had been feeding Bobcat but he was too frightened at this point to allow her to pick him. Her plan was to trap him and take him to the vet for shots and neutering, then find him a home. Unfortunately she couldn't keep Bobcat herself because her two dogs have cat issues.

      I came into the picture when Hillary called Feline Network and someone there gave her my phone number. After talking to her, I told her I'd do the best I could to find someone who might be willing to foster Bobcat for a week or two and evaluate him as to adoptability. If he proved to be adoptable, we might be able to get him into the Adopt-A-Pet.

      I was lucky enough to actually find someone willing to evaluate Bobcat, when Hillary called again. It seems that, after taking Bobcat to the vet, she'd gone online and researched Abyssinian rescue sites. It turned out, there was a waiting list of people wanting to adopt Abyssinian cats. The rescue folks put her touch with a number of potential adopters, and it didn't take long to match Bobcat up with his new person in a forever home.

      Thanks to Hillary's compassion and her tenacity at continuing to look for a solution, Bobcat now has a safe, warm, loving home