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Siwsan

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7. My first 2, Sophie and Boudicca, were rescued from a drug addicted teacher. It was a bad situation
Wed Oct 4, 2023, 09:34 AM
Oct 2023

She taught at the same school as my sister and was on the watch list for all hospital and walk in emergency clinics in the county. I believe Oxy was her main drug.

Anyway, when I first brought the girls home, almost every time I'd take a nap they'd jump on me. It happened at night, sometimes, but usually during the day.

It made me think that they maybe, since their previous human was out of it, most of the time, they connected humans sleeping in the daylight with them not getting fed. After a couple of weeks of living with a fully functioning human, they dropped that behavior.

Just to show how bad that situation was, she was a hoarder and NEVER cleaned litter boxes. When her friends, my sister among them, would come over to check on her, they'd take care of it. The cats basically tunneled into the piles of stuff and hid. She also had a dog that she never took outside. She figured he'd use the litter boxes, too. Fortunately the dog was rescued by one of my sister's friends.

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