While not nearly as severe I still think of how long it took Kira (remember her? The jersey cat Irene saved and we took in? We still have her and she’s happy and often found snoozing on my dad’s chest while they nap on the couch) to become comfortable with someone touching her back and tail. She would always run from large gatherings of people we had and spit and run from yuppie larva. Evidence of some yuppie thinking she’d be good for the kids. We always suspected becasue she fought back to protect herself the family likely abandoned her or she ran away.

It’s taken her five years to be comfortable enough to come out when we have visitors. Lately she’s actually been caught rubbing the legs of visitors and purring when they pet her.

My own was also taken in by people who care more about animals than humans thankfully and was saved from being euthanized for just having the luck of being born wild. She the most embarrassing lap whore you’ve ever seen and I’d do more to protect her than I would for most people I know. I don’t have a great deal of respect for the human animal and stuff like this makes me angry.