One cold Indiana night we had just gotten home. We are expedite drivers and have a cabin and RV in Southern Indiana. Well the winter was a real cold snowy one and hard to bare for humans let alone stray cats. I looked down and here was a black cat with a white diamond on her little chest and a stubby tail that tingles as she whines for food. I could not help but fall in love with this little cat. Little did I know how that that small stray cat would change my life? I let her in my RV that night and fed and watered her. I had a cat box in the RV because I have a cat named Kit Kat. To my surprise Stubby used the box and has been trying ever since to get me to adopt her. She is the friendliest cat I ever met. Well we are only around on weekends and I had a cat and did not want to take on another cat. So when I came home every weekend Stubby would look me up and I would feed and pet her and then let her out. That one month temperatures dipped down into the below zero. I let Stubby in RV those nights. Then Stubby had a surprise. I had been at this RV Park for a year. I had seen the stray cats around but really paid no mind to them. I was too busy and felt I had enough problems. I was paying a guy to watch my cat Kit Kat. I did not want to take on more animals. So I guess I turned a blind eye to what was happening to the stray cats. Well Miss Stubby tuned me in; she has a whole cat community behind her. Each week she would bring another cat, then another cat to the weekend feedings. So I began to name them. Some cats come and go but Stubby's clan stays. The next cat to steal my heart was a very friendly Russian blue cat I named Layla. She could fend for herself but loved the free food and lots of pets. Then Momma cat a whiney calico. She is a talker but very wild and skittish. Then came Duct Tape Cat a black cat who some how got a roll of duct tape around her neck. She must have been a victim of somebody's cruel joke. She is so afraid of humans all she will let me do is feed her. She seems to sense when I even want to get closer to her she moves away. I recently gained her trust enough to grab the back of her neck to get the duct tape off but wow she nailed me good. I need professional advice! I know she will be freed from her bondage but still trying to problem solve just how I will get her free? Then I met Kesa a long hair brown and silver kitten. She was real sick and her eyes draining with infection and a real bad cough. Her eyes were so matted I thought she was a one eyed cat. These other cats lived out by the RV park dumpster. It made me ill to think they had to live this way. I began to care about their life and welfare. A funny thing happpend it was helping me to help them. I had that feeling helping people but now it was towards those strays. Kesa was so friendly I, loved her on the spot. She became more ill so I took off work for a week a nursed her back to health. She responded well to food and warmth and love. She did not know how to use a cat box so I had to teach her. Her story ends well. She had feline flu sometimes it is fatal. Got her into a vet with my mom's help and vet gave her antibiotics which saved her life. My mom had her cat Scamper pass on last march and my Dad passed away last June. My mom did not want a cat till this year. So I kept looking for a white kitten but found none. So I told her about Kesa and sent her a digital picture and my mom feel in love with Kesa kitten. I got a load to Georgia and delivered Kesa to my mom within three weeks of her rescue. We got all the way down near my mom's house and Kesa had a real problem she started having what we thought was foaming at the mouth. I grabbed the cat and I prayed. It was just was severe drainage from to nose and throat. I wiped it off Kesa and in faith took the cat to my mom's home. I was afraid the cat would die. I watched her close and then mom got her into vet and all was well. Kesa is doing well she is a Florida cat now and just got spayed. She follows my mom around like a little lamb and has become like a little kid to my mom. Well back to the rest! Layla, Stubby, Duct Tape Cat, Oscar Kesa's brother a long hair yellow cat, momma the calico and others...... They came every weekend and I started buying large bags of cat food from Wal-Mart and still buy that nine lives dried cat food they love it! Then it occurred to me that what I was thinking ? I could some how save all of these cats? I then met a woman in Nashville, at a Krystal fast food place and she was calling cats in a wooded area behind Krystal a fast food place. She told me about how she fed and rescued over 40 cats. She gets them spayed and returns them to the wild where she found them. I was relieved. I knew a lot of the cats where not adoptable. So I trained the ones I could like Stubby, Layla, and am working at training Oscar. Train to use box and be inside pets as well as outside pets. I have learned a lot from these cats mostly how they do not need humans was most enlightening. This was a very harsh winter and it enabled me to help a community of cats who were for the most part a hidden enigma at this RV Park. I am honored to have helped them and now they include me in their cat community a hidden thing as these cats are wild animals. Well I have a lot to learn and I am blessed to have helped God's creatures. It helped me feel a joy from giving to those cats and has helped me give to people and really enjoy myself. God used those cats to help me be more like him.
