When Woman Goes on Mental Health Break From Work, Stray Cat and Kittens Show Up at Her Home

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In August of 2020 after my return to work from COVID shutdown, I had to take a “spur of the moment” mental health vacation from work. I had two weeks to get my head straight and see if I wanted to stay in my job, as there had been so many changes to what I loved due to COVID.

On my first day of “relaxation”, a stray cat, whom I had been feeding, showed up on my patio with four kittens! I knew she had been pregnant but hadn’t seen any sign of her having delivered and assumed they hadn’t survived, as she was so skinny.

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Well, she KNEW I couldn’t just turn them all away. I took them in to foster them for our local Humane Society. What perfect timing, right? My two weeks were filled with caring for and playing with four young kittens and giving their mama a break while she recovered and regained her health. It was the BEST medicine for my soul!

The Humane Society was wonderful to work with and assisted me through the entire process. Returning to work was hard only because I missed my “babies”. I wanted to keep all five of them, but that would put too much stress on my other three adult cats (all rescues), and I knew it would throw the “balance” we had in our home.

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After eight weeks, it was time to take this little family into the Humane Society to complete their vetting, fix them all and put them up for adoption.

WELL, I was a partial “foster-fail”… I decided to keep mama, now known as Cali-Cat. And, I just couldn’t part with the runt who is now known as Lil Ty. The two of them have caused havoc and upset the “balance”, but it has been so worth it! I give them credit for “rescuing my mental health” even while I rescued them!