MAYTAG

 ...and then there was one:

 ....all alone. So alone that his best friend is a paper towel.

Remember the lonely Maytag repairman commercials? Meet Maytag.

There is hope though. We once owned a Maytag washer. It was a piece of crap. We would have offered the poor lonely repairman a room in our house and a seat at the table just to keep it running.

So...maybe someone needs a pouncey, purr-y pain in the butt for his or her very own. We will not abandon hope for little Maytag.

I put the ad on Facebook. Everybody and his brother wanted the two blue eyed Siamese looking ones. The first went promptly, with no complications at all to a little girl having a birthday. The pictures of 'Narnia' were adorable.

The im's came in regularly, one after another. One woman wanted the other blue eyed cat desperately. Her own cat had passed away and this one was an image of her dear departed cat. Begged me. I had 4 other people wanting the same cat. I politely told them the white one was spoken for. 

Much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Then I got ghosted by the woman with the sad story. 

That is when things got very crazy. All the cats were taken multiple times over, but no one actually came for any of them.

I would spend big chunks of time patiently sending pictures and answering questions only to have them discover that they lived five hours away from me. Some people wanted the cat delivered. Other people were irritated that the neutering would be "on them". (The cats are only 6 weeks old. They are too young to be neutered.)

After a solid week of this, yesterday, a woman messaged me: "Are any of the blue eyed siamese still available?" I sent her a picture. She wanted the cat. She lived a hour away. "GREEEEAAATTTTTT!" I groaned to myself. She had to work the following day but could pick it up afterwards. I had heard this spiel before. I had to drive back to the old house, so I told her that I could meet her in the Aldi parking lot, which cut her travel time in half. Much to my surprise, she was there to meet me just as planned. She was thrilled with the kitten and sent me pictures later. Her kids named her Snowball and love her dearly. The picture showed a played out Snowball curled up in her husband's armpit, sleeping comfortably.

And then there were three. In the middle of the night, a med evac nurse wanted to know if I had any tiger striped ones left. She also lived an hour away. I said, "well, I have a hair cut in Warren. I could meet you..." "Deal!" she said. When I asked her which cat I should bring, she said 'Bring them both. Kittens are a lot more fun when there are two!" 

I thought for sure that I was going to be ghosted on that one, but she met me as planned. They had just lost their old tiger, and the family was missing having a cat around the house. I felt quite good about The Wondertwins' new home in the country.

It has been quite an experience. Amazing to me that people simply make plans to take a kitten and never show up.That was irritating. 

But the most outrageous exchange I had was with a woman who had to have a female cat. Many people have preferences for one reason or another. That part is not uncommon. But at some point it came out that her other cat is female and that's why she couldn't have a male. I said, "your female is not neutered?" She replied that it did not need to be. It was an indoor cat!

Now I know from experience that a cat in heat is very wiley about escaping. If she had two unneutered females, it was simply doubling the chance of unwanted kittens. 

That woman ghosted me and I am not sorry. I did not want her to have a cat.