Foster Rule 4: It’s the feeders’ job to stay out of trouble. Cats are impulsive by nature.
Resistance Is Futile
Cat Rescue Week
The story you are about to read is based on real life experiences with rescue cats. Not even the names have been changed because cats don’t care what we think of them.
ALONZO LOVED TO BE LOVED, but he loved biting even more. He couldn’t help himself. Mother feeder called him a kitten in a big boy’s body, whatever that meant. But it wasn’t his fault. Once a feeder scratched him behind the ears, or ruffled his fur, or stroked his back, he would purr, butt heads, and then, in a state of purrgasmic ecstasy he’d sink his teeth into their arm as deep and hard as he could.
Each time he broke skin, mother feeder would shout, yank her hand away, and inform him, “bad kitty.” Once she pulled her hand away only to get it caught in his outstretched claws, at which time she said, “bad, bad, very bad kitty.” As she wrapped a cloth around the blood spouting from her wrist, she gave him the Jenny Manytoes eye, the eye that said I can punish you worse than you can bite me.
The one time Alonzo bit father feeder’s hand, the human simply said, “Mother fucker,” and locked him in a kennel.
Each time Alonzo broke skin…
