I must start here by saying I am just not a cat person. Now don't get me wrong I'm not a cat hater or anything like that, I have farm cats, I just prefer dogs, that's all. Seldom do I give cats a second glance. Now give me a cute dog and I'm all over that. This is a tale of a cat that is the exception.
Meet Holly, she is the resident farm cat of 'A Summer Place Farm' she is a beautiful, classy, yet shy lady. I had always thought her lovely with golden green eyes and silver fur. This last weekend I learned the tale of how she came to live at the farm. Now I find her even more beautiful...
One of the dreadful things that comes with living in the country is that people dump their unwanted animals here. I guess they just figure that the poor creatures can either live wild or that some nice farmer might take them in. Of course farmers like me and others do take in strays... but we can't take them all. This is what happened to Holly...she was abandoned along the road that runs near the farm.
When she was finally discovered she was as wild as any of the animals living in the woods around there. It took two years of leaving food in the pasture and then the yard, close to the house, and finally on the porch until she was able to be touched. She eventually let a human touch her again on Christmas Day...a small Christmas miracle, thus her name Holly. She now happily resides on the back porch of a loving home, she get plenty of food and lots of lovin'....lucky Kitty!
Now my question today is how could someone just dump an animal? It truly frightens me to think that there are those among us that are truly that cold hearted as to just abandon what is obviously a domesticated animal to let it fend for itself. These poor creatures have very little chance of survival, between the predators, cars and real chance of starvation they have only a slim chance of making it and if they do chances are it will be a miserable existence for the animal.
I wish I had some solution for this. There are shelters everywhere and society urges people to spay and neuter their animals. But if someone doesn't care enough to be bothered with either of these solutions then I don't know what else can be done for them...they obviously need a heart transplant, and I don't mean of the physical kind. I guess till there are no more mean, heartless people in this world farmers like Florence and I will just keep taking in these poor creatures and being blessed by them. This does not make us saints or heroes, it just makes us human....more than I can say for those doing the dumping.
Miss Holly...Farm Princess!
