Cats

My niece has two cats, Jimmy and Zelda. Jim was a gift to her from her two friends. Zelda was from one of a friend's cat. Her friends got the other kitten. Anyway, things happen and my niece had to find a new home for her and her pets. She asked her mom if she could leave the cats with her for about 3 weeks, at the most, while she finds a new place to live. (She and her friends had a falling out). Anyway, her mom was happy to do that, at least we thought so. Her mom had other ideas about taking in the cats. All she had to say was no to her daughter. Here my niece is so happy that her mom is taking in her cats and no complaints at all. On the other hand, my sister is talking about how her daughter just dumped the cats on her, she didn't buy food or provide litter. Then with me, she said none of that, just happy that she took in the cats. The home teachers got their earful of the bad news and just told my sister to take the cats to the pound since she can't take care of them. They must have planned for her to take them at a certain time if my niece didn't comply with her wishes. Nothing was ever said to my niece from her mom. My niece was there to feed her cats and clean up after them. Only thing is that my sister beat her to the cleaning part. Not sure why, but my niece was thankful to her for cleaning up even though she told her she'll do it. So after I got out of the hospital, I was waiting for my prescription when my niece called and told me her mom just told her that she's giving the cats away to someone from church. But she wouldn't tell her who got the cats. So she wa crying and wanted to know what happened. I told her that I had heard that her mom wanted to take the cats to the pound for whatever reason she felt she should. So I called the HTs because I knew they were going to take them. Sure enough they said they took the cats in that morning and I told them that they shouldn't have. They jumped all over me because my niece wasn't taking care of the cats. I tried to explain but they didn't want to hear it. So I asked where they took the cats. I told my niece and she was able to retrieve them through adoption. But she got her cats back.

I guess she loves her pets because they love her back. It's sad when you have parents that really don't seem to care about your existence. She now believes that her mom really doesn't give a hoot that she's alive and she's her daughter. Poor thing. She knows the rest of the family loves her and will do just about anything for her. It's sad that my sister doesn't realize the good things about having kids. She really doesn't talk to her kids since the day they were born. She doesn't even know them. She looked forward to the day that they were 18 and out of her life. She got her wish.