Born Winter 2007
Black & White Siamese Mix
(We think)
Now they had just moved to the same town as us and literally just a few streets over so we went to say hi. The first time we were there the little girl of course had to show us everything, including the cat named Bella.
The little girl would go and grab the cat by the tail and/or legs and drag the cat across the room and the poor cat just took it. I know kids will be kids and be "ruff" till they know better but the parents didn't do or say anything just let the girl do whatever. It was hard to watch. I know by reading this most people will be thinking oh it's nothing, the cat is fine yadda yadda. Honestly, the cat probably didn't know any better, growing up with that kind of torment and just, well took it. It was sad.
Back to the parents. The little girls mother who had this Amy Winehouse, look going on was at the time taking classes to become a beautician (side note: she also claimed to do her own tattoos and offered us to have some work done. We declined.) and was in the middle of learning how to dye hair. Well she decided to dye Bella's white fur green. So not only were they letting the little girl do whatever she wanted to the cat, why not practice dying hair on her as well.
For the entire time, I felt so bad for this little cat, we would be sitting there and the little girl would go for her and we would say "you don't want to do that to the poor kitty, it's going to hurt her or don't bite the kitties ear, you wouldn't want someone to bite your ear. Would you?". Us, trying to step in for the parents who also would let their child eat out of the cats dish and they thought it to be funny.
As we were about to leave the cat was sitting in the open window next to the door so I decided to pick her up and to give her a little pat. This is going to sound weird if not crazy but I can usually be-friend a cat/dog pretty quick and in the case of it being a cat, I can usually have a cat purring within a few minutes, if not seconds. As I picked up Bella, for the first time she just went completely limp in my arms. Didn't seem to care. No purring. Nothing... :(
We left. Leaving Bella, thinking about how she has to go thru her entire life thinking that is what life is all about. Yes, I know people, they are just animals, what do they know. But I'm sorry, I think of animals as people. They have feelings, they deserve to be treated with respect & kindness, and every bit of love that any decent person out there deserves. So F*** off. If you think I'm nuts for saying that, I really don't give a s***!
Well now, with that being said, lets move on :)
Within the following weeks my husband would go and stop in and say hi and come back telling me that the same thing was going on with the cat. That the little girl wasn't understand the concept of being gentle. Time passed by. It was a few weeks before my husband and I were to be married and we had a little get together/bon fire at our house and there was an incident/questions that came up that really shouldn't of been asked by the woman. Not sure if I mentioned this before but the man was my husbands cousin not the woman.. Questions that definitely DO NOT belong in this type of blog. After that night I might of been questioning what I was marrying into... I'm kidding my husband. Now we will see if he actually reads my posts. LOL.
So I'm getting a little off track I know, but I feel this all belongs with Bella's/Belle's story. Fast forward a few months. My husband and I are now married. We have moved to a different province. We have 3 dogs & 2 cats. My husband would check in with his cousin every now and then. I'm thinking it's late October/November 2008 and it was a damp, windy, cold night and my husband gets a call from his cousin asking if we want Bella. Because apparently him and his girlfriend (mother of his daughter) broke up, living apart, leaving him with the little girl and the cat. Now I guess he tolerated the cat for a little bit of time because it was his little girls, but he didn't want to deal with it anymore and said if we want her to come and get her or (makes me sick thinking about the following) he's going to do away with her. I am not joking. I remember asking my husband, "is he serious?"...
1. How can a person "do away" with something that hasn't done anything wrong and 2. How the hell am I suppose to live with myself if we don't go and get her? Yes please, I'd like to live with that on my conscience. Again, I know people out there will be saying "it's just a cat" blah, blah. I don't care, I'm not built that way.
We hopped in the car, drove to the ferry, left the car on our side. Waited for the boat in damp, cold, windy weather with a cat carrier. Walked onto the boat, took the 1Hr 15 min. crossing, met his cousin on the other side picked up Bella, walked right back onto the boat for the last crossing home and decided on the way home on the boat we both didn't really like the name Bella, but since we are both fans of Disney, Bella was to become Belle.
The newest member of our family. Surprising, when we got home, I thought she'd be scared to death of all the other pets, but within 30 minutes she was out and about getting acquainted with everyone. And I'm happy to say within a day I had her purring in my arms.
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