What Our Cornish Rex Cats Taught Us About Loving Difficult People
A story about setting boundaries.
Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like you to meet Odo Rex Tremendae.
Sleek and slender with short wavy black and smoke downy-like fur, large golden eyes, enormous ears, this was our Odo. He was an almost perfect show cat specimen and absolutely gorgeous.
While my husband and I would typically adopt domestic short-haired cats we had become enamored with this pedigree and imagined adopting this unusual feline would be a fun and unique experience. Oh wait, what’s that old adage?…
Be careful what you wish for?
Odo came “as advertised”. Personality and then some, a six-month-old kitten always desperate for cuddles. Within minutes he could win hearts and minds, despite our friends' first impressions of his alien-like appearance. He wanted to be held like a baby and as he gently placed a paw on each side of your neck, he would rub his nose into your ear or against your face and purr with a deafening roar.
That cat LOVED to love and he did it with 100% of his soul.
The Cornish Rex is renowned for this kind of affection, their boundless energy, and an unexplained attraction to water…
