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September 25, 2005

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Chloe, the Cat of the Day
Name: Chloe
Age: Fourteen weeks old
Gender: Female
Kind: Siamese, Ragdoll Cross
Home: Wisconsin, USA
 
   Chloe is so special because she really helped me learn how to love a pet again after the loss of my companion of six years, Pricilla, a Himalayan. And she's pretty sweet too!!

    Chloe is still quite young so she is working on her tricks with her older cat brother Tucker. He is slowly training her how to fetch but she is still struggling with the part that she has to watch where it is being thrown.

    Chloe came to my home very ill she had a really bad case of coccida and internal parasite. Something that you can't tell by just looking at her. I took her to the vets office to make sure that everything was o.k. so that nothing would infect our other older cats. So the vet put her on a medication and it all went down hill from there she wasn't feeling good enough to really eat or drink. I would stay up all night concerned that she wasn't going to make it and being that we had just lost my cat Pricilla it was making things all to real that she might not make it through. It took three trips to vets office for fluids because of her dehydration that she finally started to turn around. But the feeling of sadness of losing this little kitten was becoming to much. I would cry and look into her big blue eyes and say I love you and I will always love you that I began to have a huge connection to her. Her purr would go even though she felt so sick. Which triggered my heart to stop thinking so negative. This is a completely different situation and little Pricilla played a role in sending little Chloe to us.

    It was a couple of weeks of medication that she finally came around and the truly sweetness started to come out of this little bundle of joy. Every morning she waits for me to get ready for work and wants to be loved before I go to work. I swore that there was no way that I was going to let a cat get as close to my heart again. But it was done she was already there. I find myself getting all teary eyed thinking about all of the things that Pricilla and I use to do together and she is always there to comfort me when needed. Every animal is different than the last but some how you manage to love them as much as the last. She makes my husband and myself laugh daily. She is as healthy as they come now I have even heard things like."Look at you, your mammas going to have to put on a diet but your so tiny" I know that she goes on these patterns of gaining pounds and then she stretches and gets bigger. But all the time her and I spent together begging that she was going to pull through this was a test for me in away for me to realize she is just as important as any other cat only this one makes me smile when I am sad. I feel that Chloe is affectionate but in a different way than Pricilla she really likes to go and do things on her own. But is always there when needed.

    I just love to have her presence around. She is so goofy at times and so affectionate in others. The games that she plays usually comes down to who ever she feels like ambushing at that moment its usually Tucker that takes the blunt end of her sanguines but that is what he likes I guess. She has brought a lot of light to the household during a very hard time. And all of the time and effort was well worth it She is my little shadow and I get really lonesome when she isn't around. She just really belongs in our family. I wouldn't know what to do without her.

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