After we returned to Florida from evacuating to TN for hurricane Irma... there appeared a tiny, scrawny, starving, little skeleton of a kitten in my work parking lot. I went home and told my "no more cats" boyfriend that there was a little starving, scared to death kitten in the parking lot... his first reaction was, "YOU FED HER DIDN'T YOU?!"
I always carried food to feed the 2 resident cats... and always had extra.
Fast forward to that Saturday and our cat carrier in the truck and some cans of food... off to catch this little "thing." We put the carrier down, food in the back, she walked all the way in but one tiny back foot... AND A RACCOON CAME OUT OF A BUSH AND SPOOKED HER AND SHE DARTED OFF ACROSS THE STREET LIKE A LIGHTNING BOLT! Well ... after that she wasn't letting us get near her what-soooo-ever.
So every day before work I would feed her breakfast and every evening feed her dinner. Every weekend I went and fed her. I worked from September all the way to December.. and one Friday, it was a VERY rainy and stormy night, I told my boyfriend she's too tiny to survive this cold weather and torrential rain... it HAS to be tomorrow.
So the next day we went down to the parking lot. I petted her and kept her back turned, and my boyfriend snuck up behind us... I scooped her up and SHE GOT AWAY! I carefully approached her again... AND THIS TIME WE GOT HER!!!
She's now the tiny, feisty, runner, plump, happy, beautiful, spoiled, Daddy's girl... Little Miss Moon Pie - because Moonpies are made in Tennessee!
LARGO, FL
