Mama's Back!

This is Mama Cat. I adopted her about three years ago when I moved back to Nashville. She got her name, because she came to my house with a litter of day-old kittens. (The rescue didn't know she was pregnant until they took her to get spayed, and realized she was about to give birth.) I always meant to name her something else, but Mama Cat just stuck.

She disappeared one day in early March. I kept telling myself maybe she was still alive. Maybe some neighbor found her, didn't realize she had a home and kept her in their house? Maybe she was just feral now, living up on the top of the ridge on the property?

I tried not to let my mind wander to the bad maybes, but whenever I would mention to anyone how long it had been since I had seen her, they would always say that she was dead. They would assume a coyote. I guess I had sort of resigned myself to the fact that she was probably gone. Maybe she had gotten sick and went into the woods to die? I had no clue.

Then the phone rang at 6:30am this morning. My neighbor said there was a strange cat in her front yard that she thought looked like my cat that was missing. I threw on my farm boots and went running over. It was Mama Cat! I couldn't believe my eyes. It was like seeing a ghost. She had been gone for over five months! I am a little in shock, but so glad to know she is okay. This morning, I didn't expect anything particularly interesting to happen, and something that had seemed absolutely impossible happened! Life is amazing.