I’m probably off – topic, but this topic reminded me of a blue – and – white cat that I love deeply. It all started when we lived in our old house (a two – story bungalow with a yard). A stray blue – and – white cat came to our place. It was so cute and charming, but a bit fierce and always liked to scratch people.
This was when it first came to our home. We all loved to pet it. Later, as it got familiar with us, it started to linger around and refused to leave. Later, it even brought back several little “ugly” cats. My mother also liked it very much, so we started to stock up on cat food to feed it. Usually, it would run around and play during the day and come back to sleep at night. We always liked to call it into the living room to play for a while. After playing for a while, it would stay there. Then we set up a home for it on the balcony, and it lived there.
Half a year passed like this. Then our house faced demolition, and we had to rent a house. It was not convenient to take the cat with us, but we couldn’t bear to part with it. Finally, we decided to let it stay at my grandmother’s house (my grandmother also has a single – family yard). On the day we moved, it seemed to sense something. It stayed firmly at home and wouldn’t go anywhere. It sat right in the middle of the living room, watching people coming and going to move things out, like a guardian. It was very anxious when it saw people moving things out and would keep an eye on each room for a while.
After we moved and took it to my grandmother’s house, it was very scared. To help it adapt as soon as possible, we took its familiar cat food and some of the flowers from our home to my grandmother’s. But it was always listless.
It stared at my brother’s cat through the window.
Later, it didn’t eat much cat food. We kept it on a leash at first, but we felt so sorry for it that we decided to let it go. After all, it was a wild cat, so we let it run around. It ran away, but then came back. And at night, it ran away again and never returned to my grandmother’s house. It was winter, the coldest time of winter. I was almost crazy. I looked for it every day. When I couldn’t find it, I would cry. I missed it so much. I searched for it in the grass, in the heating pipes, and in the trash cans around my grandmother’s house, meowing like it to call it.
Three or four days later, a neighbor from our old house (who hadn’t moved out yet due to the demolition) called my mother and said that Xiaomi (the cat’s name) had run back to the old house! It was always meowing at our door! It didn’t go to other people’s houses, but just wandered around and meowed in the old house where the door had been removed. Later, when my mother and I heard the news, we were very excited and couldn’t wait to go and find it. We were amazed at how it found its way back. It must have been reluctant to leave. Xiaomi is so smart! It’s really worthy of being the cat I liked! Later, we took five bags of cat food to find it that night (we gave one bag of cat food to each neighbor in the old house row to help them feed it).
When I saw it again, I really cried my eyes out. I kept holding it, petting it, and kissing it. At that moment, I really wanted to be impulsive and take it back, but I was powerless. On the night of January 12, 2020, I held it for two hours in front of the neighbor’s house. I almost cried for two hours. The cold wind was so strong that the tears on my face almost froze, but I still didn’t want to let go. But finally, I had to. We discussed with the neighbor and settled it in the small storage room in the neighbor’s yard. This was the last time I saw it.
Later, the neighbor’s sister gave it away. She found an adopter online. I was both happy and sad. I was happy that Xiaomi finally had a warm home and wouldn’t be a stray anymore. But I was sad that I didn’t know if its wild nature would be restricted, or I was heart – broken because I might never see or touch it again. Even though more than three months have passed, when I see your photos now, I still want to cry. This article is for you, who became a part of our life but never got an official name, to express my missing for you…
Finally, I wish you a peaceful and happy life as a cat. I also wish you to be as strong as Luo Xiaohei, and I hope you will never be a stray again in this life.
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