How I got the Orange cat

So I was basically still working for Alex in the back of his shop for the business that we had gone in on together with another one of our friends. A lot more of my work I was doing from home at that time, because he was busy getting another shop set up that he was planning for us to move our office to. Basically like before it would be in the back of this shop because the building had better resources, as well as other rooms in the back that we could use for office space’s for the company that we were building. The way I understood it that particular office space that Alex had gotten for his new shop as well as spaces to conduct our business use to be a veterinarian clinic. So I had basically already had the two kittens that were given to me by Alex for the whole summer of 2022. One afternoon when I was working from home I got a call from Alex saying that his uncle was trying to get rid of his cat because his wife was pregnant. I really didn’t need another cat because I already had two. I thought I would take it for now temporarily and we would figure out what to do with it later.

Alex sent me a picture of what was soon to be the new cat and it looked exactly like Tiger. This cat was actually one of Tiger’s kittens from a previous litter than the current ones I already had. He was like a little Tiger. Not literally but he looked just like his dad as I previously stated. When I spoke to Alex a second time about the new cat that I didn’t have yet that’s what we were saying and we were like awe he’s so cute. when it came time for me to go and pick up the cat I got one of my carriers ready and got in the car and followed the directions on the gps that were in the text of the address that Alex sent me. It turned out that this particular complex was right behind my friend Tony’s complex. This was another friend that I went in on the business with me and Alex. I parked my car got out and removed the carrier from the back seat of the car and walked to the unit that was in the text. I FaceTimed Alex while I was walking to his uncle apartment so that the wife would know who I was. When I knocked and the wife answered with the three kids peering from behind her I explained what I was doing there and then I gave her the phone so she could see Alex on facetime and talk to him. Because most of Alex’s family was from a foreign country I wasn’t sure if she could speak english or not. When Alex explained to her what I was doing there I gave her the carrier she disappeared into the house and came back with the cat in the carrier and the oldest little girl of hers was crying. Understandably, because she was losing her pet. the mother of the kids said hold on he has a cat bed to and she disappeared back into the apartment with the cat bed and by that time the son who was also a very small child was crying. I let the kids say by to the cat and then walked to my car and put him in and the wife called from the balcony saying that she has a chair for the cat.

I walked back to the apartment and she met me at the door with the chair and all three of the kids were with her at the door crying. I didn’t know who I felt sorry for the most the cat or the kids. I was excited to get the new cat but I was also wondering how all of this was going to work because I already had two cats and I was still living in a studio apartment. I was happy but I also felt tricked into agreeing to take the cat in the first place. I imediately called Alex and Alex was excited that I had taken the cat. I explained to Alex that the cat was an orange tiger striped and in the picture it was a grey tiger striped. He said that he was wondering about that too and he asked them about it and they told him that the cat’s fur turned orange. Alex told me to bring him by the shop. I was on my way to my apartment so we changed course of direction and went to Alex’s shop. Alex was excited about me taking the cat and Alex held him and played with him while he worked at the shop. Alex also told me that they were going to put that cat out on it’s own. That made me feel better that I took the cat in and I just thought ok I can find some way to make this work.

Over the weeks to come people were telling me that I didn’t need three cats and that I needed to get rid of that orange cat. They were trying to make me feel bad and they succeeded. This cat is nice and sweet I was not going to get rid of him. He was already abandoned by his family. I remember the next day looking around at the cat’s stuff that his family had sent with me and me immediate thoughts were I don’t have room for his cat chair. I thought that is the first thing I need to get rid of. So that’s what I did. Another thing that made me not want to get rid of the orange cat like people were trying to talk me into doing was the fact that they treated that cat like a king with his own canvass chair and everything and then they were just going to toss him out. I just couldn’t get over what a sweet kitty he was. Another thing if I got rid of him how would I have known that whoever adopted him wasn’t going to abuse him or neglect him or toss him out like his family was going to do. They were going to do that to him after he had already formed a bond with his family.

That whole situation just made me sick it made me sick that people will do that and have done that. It made me sick that the parents of that family were going to just toss him out on his own. I just couldn’t get that situation out of my mind. Then something dawned on me I remembered as a kid hearing about how a cat could be harmful to a pregnant woman’s baby, but then I also remembered I knew a couple of wemon who were friends of a couple of buddies of mine that had cat’s while they were pregnant.

A friend of mine who had been living in Shreveport for a couple of years now named Kayla made a comment on that as well. She said that she knew a couple of wemon that had cat’s when they were pregnant as well and their kids turned out fine. She said that she probably just couldn’t be around the cat liter or something. After google searching the subject I found on acog.com that it is really only true if the cat goes outside and if that cat has hunting tendencies. That was not an outside cat at all. The mom and the dad probably fell victim to the myth and believed what everyone else believed. If you have a cat and your pregnant it’s harmful to the baby. What makes me think that I was conned into taking the cat is the fact that me and the other guy Tony whom we went into business with had a business disagreement with Alex. That is something that can be a topic for discussion on another blog post.