Fenway Comes Home

Fenway - definitely at home

 

 

   

Hello again Josie - and a big MEOW to you....

Last time I wrote I told you I would tell you about meeting Grandma Bobby and Grandpa Larry at the Waterville Animal shelter.  That happened last year, the day after Thanksgiving.  I knew that morning that some people were coming to meet me, but I did not know who.  I was very excited.  I love meeting people! (some cats do not like meeting new people - Does your cat Jac/Monk? ) 

I really did not understand much of what had happened to me or that meeting these people was about to really change my life.  I had been living outside on the streets and in the allies of the town of Waterville for a while.  I had been hungry and sick with a cold and very scared.  Then some people caught me and took me to the animal shelter.  I did not know why.  But I did like the shelter's food, the cage with a bed and I liked getting better from my cold.

Now I was nearly well, I just sneezed a little bit still and once in a while I still coughed.  But I felt much better.  The people at the shelter had said that someone was coming to meet me and they took me out of my cage and brushed my fur.  I thought I probably looked quite nice with my fur coat all brushed!  A person working at the shelter got me from my cage and took me into a big room with a long table and lots of chairs.  Grandma Bobby and Grandpa Larry were there.  The shelter person handed me to Grandpa Larry and right away I started purring.  I liked him!  And then Grandma Bobby took me and petted me - I liked her too!  They told the person working at the shelter they wanted to take me home - but I did not yet know what that meant.  I really hoped that "Home" would have food like the shelter and maybe a place for me to sleep, a bed.


Grandpa Larry and Grandma Bobby put me in a small cage, a "cat carrier" and took me from the shelter to their car.  The car was warm and the cat carrier had a soft towel that made a nice bed.  I went right to sleep and slept for 2 hours, that is how long it took for us to drive home.  When we got home Grandma Bobby carried the cat carrier in with me inside.  She opened the small door and let me out.  I loved home the second I got there.  It smelled so good.  It smelled like turkey and ham and all sorts of delicious food.  At the shelter I only got cat food, but here at home I get small pieces of other food.  And... I had hoped there would be a bed for me at my new home.  There was a bed - lots of beds.  Anywhere I am comfortable sleeping - that's my bed!  .... In the picture above you can see me in one of my favorite beds.  Grandpa Larry thinks this is his chair.  Silly Grandpa Larry .... as you can see, this is MY bed.   But I wouldn't mind if he got a bigger chair for my bed - this one is getting a bit small. 

Next time - more about my life in my new home soon and pictures of my other beds -   but for now

Love from Fenway (your family's Maine Coon Cat) 

How Fenway found his family

 

Fenway at the Waterville Animal Shelter

 Hi Josie -  

You haven't met me yet.  I am Fenway the Maine Coon cat and I now live with your Grandma Bobby and Grandpa Larry.  I am a very lucky cat.  This is a picture of me at the Waterville Animal Shelter where I was when your Grandma Bobby and Grandpa Larry found me and decided to bring me home.  An animal shelter is for animals that don't have a family yet.  I didn't like living at the shelter very much - but it was better than my life before I came there.  At the shelter I at least had enough food to eat, a warm safe place to sleep and people who petted me sometimes.  When I first came to the shelter I had been outside alone for many days.  I was very hungry and my beautiful fur was all matted and dirty.  I had a bad cold.

When I got to the shelter, I was very scared.  But the people there were nice.  They gave me food and medicine for my cold, cut the mats from my fur and gave me a flea bath!  I liked being warm and feeling full from the food - I hated the flea bath!  

After my cold was much better, people at the shelter decided to take my picture - the picture you see above.  They put the picture and some information about me on the internet so people who are looking for cats to live with them can see the cats and read a bit about them.  

Grandma Bobby and Grandpa Larry wanted a cat - they wanted a Maine Coon Cat that was not very old  - Lucky for me I wasn't even 2 years old yet!  And they wanted a Maine Coon Cat that liked people and was gentle.  WELL - Lucky for them,  I LOVE people and I am very very gentle.  

Grandma Bobby and Grandpa Larry read about me on the internet, they saw my picture and they thought I just might be the right cat for them.  It was the day before Thanksgiving when they decided to call the Waterville Animal Shelter to see if they could visit me and if we liked each other then they could bring me home.  The people at the shelter told them the shelter was closed on Thanksgiving day but they could come the day after Thanksgiving.  (Do you remember Thanksgiving - eating all that turkey with your family???)  

I was excited to learn that people were coming to visit me.  But I had a hard time waiting for 2 whole days until they came.  (do you have a hard time waiting for something you really want to happen?)   

Next time I write -  I will tell you about meeting Grandma Bobby and Grandpa Larry, my new family.  You are also part of my family -  and I am having a very hard time waiting until I can meet you!   And I will tell you what I did not like about the shelter while I lived there.  And what I loved the moment I got to my new house - Grandma Bobby and Grandpa Larry's house.  

Love,  Fenway - your family's Maine Coon cat