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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop - The Stray Cat


The prompt I chose at Mama Kat's was "Tell us about a stray animal you took in.

This little guy, not so little anymore, he's named Lucky. His name is apropos since he survived some extenuating circumstances.

One day on the way to summer school this car flew down our road in a hurry to get somewhere. Where is unimportant, what is important is that I saw this little black fur ball come rolling out from underneath the car that just passed. He didn't get under the tires for he would have been road kill. Fortunately he got under the car and was tossed to the ditch across the road from my house. I saw him get tossed, but was unable to stop due to the time constraints for the start of summer school.

I came home, not really thinking about the cat again. As it turns out he has quite a loud meow. My sister-in-law, Julia, heard him one night and ignored it. Then she heard him again a second night. Well she went to investigate. She crossed the road to see if she could see the cat making the noise. As she got closer the cat became very quiet, she couldn't see him so she went home. Well Julia decided to go back the next morning to investigate a little more. Amazingly enough the kitten was still there. Poor guy, he was blown across the road by a car, and lived in a drainage ditch for 2 days and 2 nights and survived.

At this point Julia didn't know what I had seen and I didn't know about the rogue kitty from the ditch. So when I returned home, now 3 days later, from dropping the boys off at summer school I see a little black kitten on her porch it is my turn to investigate. I go to Julia's house to see this black fur ball. She is watching him eat, he is very skinny and very young. When he is done she picks him up to give him some love. He is loving the attention. She tells me her story and shows me that he is mildly hurt.....he has road rash. I took one look at him and knew that he was the little black fur ball that was rolling across the road. Before I told Julia what I saw she said that she named the kitten "Lucky", for two reasons......he is black and he survived in the drainage ditch for 2 days and 2 nights. His name is also Lucky for another reason, he escaped the speeding car with 8 of his lives. As far as I am concerned he is a lucky cat and he has used up one of his lives with the car. Lucky is a lucky cat.

I have to say that he escaped moving out too, Julia had a place all lined up for him at a horse facility in order to help keep the mice at bay, but it didn't happen. Fortunately for Lucky the kids fell in love with him as did Julia and I, so we decided to keep him.

11 comments:

Darcie said...

I love a stray animal story with a happy ending. I didn't choose that prompt, as my animal story didn't end so happy. He certainly is "Lucky"!

jenn said...

Great story. I adopted a stray black cat when I was a kid and named her Rainbow. I didn't write about her though, because there isn't much to tell.

CDB said...

What a fantastic story! I was holding out hope the entire time it would be a happy ending, thanks for seeing that through! What a cutie pie. And lucky also for you all finding him and giving him so much love!

Thanks for stopping by today.. and for letting me know!

Mammatalk said...

Who wouldn't love that little, furry face?!

SCREAMING FOR CHOCOLATE said...

In response to your comment on my blog: I know you will raise those boys to be wonderful men and their wives will love you for it. I always said I would do that if I had boys. I had girls...two of them. They are dangerous in pairs. But now I have two grandsons.

One thing for sure they will not be afraid to show emotions or show affection. But I have made them a little spoiled.

Coco

Jen said...

This is way I never take a stray home, I would always keep them.

Anonymous said...

Lucky was lucky! You're just a softie!

Lane said...

One of my favorite cats survived a near death experience too. His mom decided to have the litter on top of the roof. Two of his siblings fell off the roof and died...he fell off the roof twice and lived (which may be the subject of another post in the future).

I tell you though, Lucky, was lucky to have some one to take care of him...nice post.

----Lane (SD)

Grand Pooba said...

Awwww! Lucky indeed! Story close to my heart :)

Michelle said...

Wow. It's amazing sometimes how someone is so obviously pushing us to do certain things. I'm glad all turned out well for you and Lucky. A lucky cat he is!

And thanks so much for stopping by my blog yesterday on my SITS day. I had so much fun and am still wading through wonderful comments. I hope you enjoyed yourself and that you come back to visit soon!

Debbie said...

What a wonderful story! And a cute cat too.