Caturday: World Day against the Abandonment of Domestic Animals -Tissou's Story

 

Tissou and one of her humans, CB


She came with a limp, a crumpled ear, a bent tail, and a story that arrived in fragments. A ghost of someone’s loyalty. A survivor of someone else’s neglect.

We didn’t know her name. We gave her one: Don Gato, a commanding title for a cat who marched—crooked but purposeful—into our home and made it hers. Later, the vet would gently shift that to Dona Gata with a quiet smile. Later still, we’d learn her true name—Tissou—and realize she had always known exactly who she was. We were the ones catching up.

Tissou’s story, like too many others, carries the echo of abandonment. After years as the cherished only pet of a kind vet, her world collapsed when he died. His widow left her locked in a horse stall and walked away. For 18 months, Tissou cried into the walls of her exile. Neighbors fed her. Her sadness made enough noise for someone to eventually hear.

Now, she lives with us—eight cats, nine humans, and a catio that buzzes with morning sun and evening birdwatching. She sleeps on sofas, patrols the living room like a velveted general, and yes, occasionally slithers into her private crate to use the litter box like the dignified lady she is. She has negotiated truces with two of our girl cats. They follow her into the crate sometimes, not out of need but out of tribute.

Tissou does not purr on command. She does not trust without testing. But she stays. She stays with us, not because we ask her to, but because she’s learned again that staying can mean safe, not stuck

And she says thank you every day--just a quiet brush against a leg or curling up beside the human of choice at the moment. No one doubts that she loves having a home again.




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