I’d like to introduce you to my sweet angel-kitty, Pooka. She’s our little kitty, weighing in around 9 lbs (as opposed to our big orange 20+ lb kitty). She’s an 11 year-old, beautiful grey tabby girl with big green eyes, a loooong tail, tiny little feet and sweet “pooka-dots” on her tummy. She's pretty mellow, but is still playful and loves to hide behind the sofa and pounce on balls.
We have some pretty major life changes coming up in the next couple of months that are going to make it really hard for us to continue to take care of the kitties and will also be really stressful for them. In an ideal world, I've LOVE to find amazing, loving homes for both cats before all of this happens. I'm trying to be realistic, though, and know that it's going to be hard to find a new home for my ornery, diabetic, big orange ball of love. I do think that Pooka is a fantastic cat, though, and I'm so hopeful that we can get her settled somewhere great pretty soon.
Pooka is quiet, super fast, and graceful (again, very different from our big kitty). We call her our ninja. She is our secret cat because someone could be in our house for quite a while and not know that she exists. (See? Ninja.) She's also hard to photograph because she's so quick and stealthy. She's pretty sleepy in most of the pics we have of her, since that's the easiest time to catch a picture of her. It's also true because I've gotten lazier about taking photos of the kitties since becoming a mommy & all of our old photos of the cats are "safe & sound," but currently inaccessible on an external hard drive. :(
She’s social, but very self-sufficient. She’s very shy with new people and pretty skittish in general. She had a rough early kittenhood, which has made her pretty wary of strangers. I can’t blame her. Pooka love is totally worth the wait, though! She is a cuddle-loving girl and has the most amazingly silky fur! One of my very favorite things about sweet Pooka is that she has an amazing long-range emotional radar. She ALWAYS knows when I’m sad. Even if she’s in the other end of the house, the second I’m about to cry, she appears at my side full of hugs and purrs. She is not a demanding cat and is content to hang out on her own most of the day, but she has a lot of love to give. She gets her big snuggle time when we go to bed. She loves to burrow under the blankets and snuggle for about 10 minutes and then she’s good. She also loves to snuggle up on our laps while we watch movies (which, sadly, seems to happen less & less often...darn parenthood).
She’s a very well-behaved girl. She’s never aggressive to people, never scratches furniture, etc., etc. She’s not too vocal; she usually just meows when she needs her people to get on something (like cleaning her box, feeding her or going to bed on time). The only potentially “problematic” behaviors she has are eating plants (Pooka does love her some flowers) and jumping on counters. Honestly, she only learned to jump on counters in an effort to reach some flowers. It’s not something she does often at all. She will try to eat any plant she can reach, but we are careful with where we put our plants now and it’s not a problem.
Pooka is not a big fan of little kids. I think she’d be a great companion to kids a bit older than ours, who are less likely to run after her shrieking, “Pooka!!! Come back!! Pooka! Wait for me!!” That being said, she’s smart enough to steer clear of little ones and doesn’t get into conflicts with them (unlike, ahem, Connor Cat… I’m never going to find a home for him, am I??).
It's hard to put the pure sweetest that is my Pooka Kitty into words. If you or someone you know might be interested in adding this precious girl to your family, please, please let me know!
Thanks!
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