By Kay Luckett
Questions about cats having nine lives and psychic abilities may come up when you meet Silver. This is a cat who must have known something when insisted on going to his forever home, the home he intuitively knew was his.
He boldly introduced himself into a Tucson Senior Retirement Park as a silver streak leaving behind unsavory litter box goodies and a musical meow that annoyed most residents.
Now meet Sonja, the woman in the park whose heart knew that those goodies were left specifically for her and that Silver was marking his spot. All she had to do was catch him.
Dumped and abandoned, Silver ended up in the park during autumn, knowing he needed to get to his forever home before the winter cold arrived. Did he know he was on life number nine?
The odds were against him because the elderly residents were angry with. him for being in the park. Yet Silver, ever determined, continued to move into the park while the park said no.
The force that prevailed was Sonja. She insisted he was her cat and was going to adopt him, no matter what. The decision hit roadblocks: Silver with the park and Sonja with her elder cat, Sunshine, who kept hissing at the new arrival.
Sonja’s safely screened in porch had a hole, which allowed Sunshine’s hostility toward Silver to scare him away.
A couple of elders in the park went about rescuing him, and two times these animal friendly women caught him and took him to shelters where he was refused.
Finally, on the third try, Silver was accepted into a county shelter. But even though he was essentially safe, Sonja couldn’t take it. She had to fix the screen and bring him back home.
Raised with newborn litters of both puppies and kittens surrounding her since her toddler years, Sonja had an idea inspired by her personal animal spirits that she has always felt live in her heart. Born on Christmas eve, she was named Sonja Noel, a spritely woman full of life and joy and a lover of all animals.
She knew that she, Silver, and Sunshine were already a family, and she was going to be an instrument of the divine by getting Silver from the shelter and bringing him back to their forever home.
Love has prevailed, and the Sonja Noel family has settled in from the winter chill. The hissing has turned to tolerance and is slowly turning to love.
Sonja tells us that this is a story of a cat who knew his destiny and followed his heart. Their hearts were joined even before they met. The psychic abilities of mom and cat seem proven today.
Sonja wishes all of us to be united with our spirit animals and wishing for each of our cats many more happy lives. Meow.
