I Fall in Love With My Cat Every Time I See Him
It’s love at every sight
We were told to go to the Jack in the Box, off Kanan Road in Agora Hills, look for a light green Suburu wagon, and follow it into the hills. We had to trust that the driver would take us to the right place and weren’t being taken on a ride to our doom.
Masks were required.
If it hadn’t been 1:00 p.m. on the Fourth of July during the Pandemic, it would have felt as if we were spies on a covert operation. But we weren’t picking up a package, but meeting a V.I.K. — a very important kitten, one we hoped would join our family.
Yoshi, my soulcat, had died two years previously and left a huge hole in our hearts. Carlos, a feral cat rescue, had helped us to heal, but our feline family still felt incomplete.
After Yoshi passed, I’d gotten it into my head that he was a Maine Coon mix, and I needed another fluffy grey and white cat, preferably a Maine Coon, in my life.
I trolled Pet Finders as if it was a dating app, looking for compatible cats — someone I could love with all my heart, and then I saw a picture of River.
River was a tiny kitten with grey fur so light it looked blue. The photo showed him in a tiny carpet-covered cubicle. He had beaker-shaped white fur that was thin…
