Rescued Animals

      Story About Snowball- The Pretty Cat

Back in 2006 my husband & I were in a local pet store that was hosting a cat adoption event given by a local cat rescue group. I wandered the store while my husband went to take a peek. About 15 minutes later he found me & said I had to come see what he found.

There were several cats available but my attention was immediately grabbed by a pretty white cat lying quietly in her cage. I was surprised when my husband stopped at this cage & said, "watch this!" He put his fingers through the bars & this pretty girl started rubbing against his fingers and purring. We decided that our current kitty, who was less than a year old, needed a buddy so we spoke to the adoption agency to get the story on this pretty girl. They had named her Ivory & she was found with her sister (named Vanilla) sealed in a box in an abandoned parking lot. They estimated that the sisters were about 6 months old. Vanilla had already been adopted & Ivory was left behind by herself.

We took her home & renamed her Snowball. It was immediately obvious that she had been abused by whoever had left her & her sister in that box. Even though she had purred & rubbed against my husband's fingers at the pet store, she was terrified of men. She was very skittish around anyone who came near her & would only come near us if it was time to eat.

A couple months after we got Snowball I became ill & was rushed to the emergency room. I ended up staying in the ICU for a week. The day I came home, Snowball decided that I was her person. She has been by my side ever since & while she is still skittish around most people, she is my little white shadow & follows me everywhere while "talking".

My husband is no longer in our lives but I still have my pretty Snowball and her 3 fur siblings. I wouldn't trade them for anything.