Why Lexy Writes to Save Lives - #RememberMeThursday 2018

Hello, everyone. This is Lexy checking in for Remember Me Thursday. Lola, Mother, and I are very proud to be partnering with Helen Woodward Animal Center to promote this important day! We hope you’ll join us and our pals Three Chatty Cats in our blog hop to shine a light on pet adoption. (More details about that below.) 

Today I decided to tell you why I write to save lives. (Last year Lola wrote about her point of view on this subject, which you can read here.) My story may sound a little familiar to many of you because I wrote a post about it on my seventh gotcha day. But this is exactly why I write to save lives. Here’s my story…

On April 10, 2010, I was “on display” at an adoption event at Petco in Nanuet, NY. I know “on display” may seem a little negative to say, but that’s how I felt. Family after family, person after person, just passed me up. After a while even the most confident girl starts to feel there’s something wrong with her. This went on for almost a year, and then it happened; a human stopped by my cage and couldn’t take her eyes off of me. It was Mother. She "oohed and aahed" over me and didn’t even look at the other cats. For the first time in a very long time, a human had eyes for only me. I liked her and I could feel her positive energy, and I felt something else, too; love. I didn’t get my hopes up too high, though, because I didn’t want to get let down again. Especially when she left without me. 

A week later on April 17, 2010, the volunteers told me I was going home. They kept petting me and were telling me how happy they were for me. I wondered if they had me confused with some other cat because surely I hadn’t been adopted. A little while later I smelled a familiar human scent; it was a human who had petted me before in my cage, but I didn’t know who. I looked up to take a peek and there was Mother; and she looked so happy! She was accompanied by an entourage of humans who I later found out were my new relatives. They all came to see me! The next thing I knew I was in a carrier (it was actually a cardboard box type of thing, but it served its purpose) with my bed from my crate and off I went in the car to Queens, NY. (You know what? I never slept in that bed again and I never went near it. That part of my life was over and I was happy when Mother finally threw it away.)

About 90 minutes later I was home, but it felt so strange to say that word. The last “home” I had ended up with the humans moving and me being thrown outside, left behind, to fend for myself. But I had a feeling deep down inside that Mother wouldn’t be like that. The house was already set up for the arrival of a queen, complete with fancy dishes, scratching posts, beds, catnip toys, and plenty of treats! There was everything there I could ever want, and it has never changed. 

I write to save lives because not all cats are lucky to have a person walk past their cage and immediately fall in love with them. And not all cats are lucky to be in a no-kill shelter like I was. I could have lived there forever it I needed to, but many other cats are euthanized in shelters before they ever find their real forever homes. Life in a shelter can be lonely, and I want to shine a light on pet adoption so more cats can be adopted quicker and not have to spend so much time in a cage. 

As I sat at the adoption events week after week, I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me. I kept wondering “why doesn’t anyone like me?” This is why I want to be a loud voice to spread the word about adoption. No pet should ever feel that way. 

Being adopted is just the best thing ever, and I want all cats to be as loved and happy as I am! Will you help me shine a light on pet adoption for #RememberMeThursday and join our Blog Hop? It’s easy peasy! Here’s how: 

1. Grab the badge below and insert it into your post.
2. Publish your post on or before Thursday, September 27, 2018.
3. Then visit either Three Chatty Cat's blog or our blog and submit your post link to the blog hop list. (The entry link is now open!) 

Then start hopping! Be sure to visit the other blogs participating in the hop to read about how they are shining a light on orphan pets!

Have you adopted a rescued pet? Tell us about them! 
Lexy