Cloud’s search for a new home has a happy ending

SILVER LINING: Cloud with her new parents Adam and Marie, all delighted with each other’s company.

Cloud has found her silver lining.

In the search for a home, Cloud has landed on all four paws with Adam and Marie.

Cloud featured in our sister paper the North Harbour News on October 2 as a cat whose owner had died suddenly and she had nowhere to go.

It’s an all-too-familiar scenario for loyal and loving companion animals who have years of play and affection left in them but who face stiff competition from cute kittens in the re-homing stakes.

But not everyone wants a kitten and not every home is suited to adopting one. Very young kittens need many hours of care, attention, training and supervision if they are to become sociable family members.

Training a kitten to have road sense is also a priority and sadly, Marie and Adam know this all too well. Before Cloud came into their lives they were given a beautiful kitten as a present, but like all kittens he had an insatiable curiosity and it proved to be his undoing when he ventured on to the road.

When they saw Cloud’s picture in the North Harbour News Adam contacted Forgotten Felines and the rest, as they say, is history.

“Cloud has taken over the whole house,” says Adam.

It could have been a very different story because Cloud, like all cats, can climb and jump to great heights.

After Forgotten Felines’ instructions to keep Cloud indoors for at least a week to let her get used to her new surroundings, she was locked in the garage that first night.

Sometime in the night, she managed to get out of a small window high up the wall and the first Adam knew about it was when she woke him at 5am the next morning with her miaows from the window ledge outside their bedroom.

So Cloud used up yet another of her nine lives and now enjoys a wonderful lifestyle sleeping on her owner’s bed or in the sunlight on the back deck. Marie says that Cloud is very good company – and if Cloud could speak, she’d probably say the same about her new owners.

- Forgotten Felines still has cats and kittens from last season – and they all need to be as lucky as Cloud. If you are interested in adopting a cat, call Helen on 027-407-0659.

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