This is a story with a happy ending. We have embraced Jinx the neighborhood cat as our cat during the recent days/weeks of very cold weather. Jinx had been coming around for 2 - 3 years and everyone assumed he belonged to someone nearby. He would have a nibble or two, then be on his way. But in November, he came to the door one day, came inside, and made himself at home like our home had been his all along! As the nights got colder, he was more and reluctant to leave, so we allowed him to stay with us.
We began to worry about what we would do with him when we left town after Christmas. In other words, we were falling in love with this very large, very lovable, solid black cat. I had been told which house he belonged to, so I decided to take their street address and do a reverse phone lookup online. And there it was, they still had a land line. I called and left a long message, feeling rather foolish if these people were not Jinx's owners. But alas, they were, and so glad I called. The owner is an animal lover and on the board of the Humane Society. She has 3 cats and 2 dogs, all adopted. Jinx has always been a traveller and the owner has family and friends who live in the neighborhood and call her when Jinx shows up at their home. She was getting worried because no one had called and was going to start looking for him. She wanted to come and get him that night, but I asked her to let us keep him one more night. So we had the pleasure of his company one last night with him sleeping at my feet.
We lost our beloved cat last spring after having her for 18 years, so Jinx definitely provided something missing in our lives. We are not able to own a pet at this time with our travels, but we were happy to participate for a short time in the neighborhood Rent-A-Cat program! And most of all, we were happy to know that Jinx would not be left out in the cold.
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