Good Mews

Arugula's Happy Ending Story

For anyone who has ever adopted a shy animal, you truly understand one of the greatest human-animal bonds you will ever experience. Recently one of our shy kittens, Arugula, a.k.a. Aggie was adopted by a volunteer.
Here is her happy ending!

It’s Aggie, writing you with an update on my new home. I really like it here a lot! I have lots of beds to sleep in, and toys to play with, and trees to sit on and I even have my own special tree in my room! I still eat my breakfast and dinner in my room and when I am done, waiting for my mommy to come get me, I lay on my tree and relax and burp.


I have a brother and sister that are way older than me, and they just ignore me. I have another sister, Marlee, that plays with me. We run and chase and wrestle! I like her a lot..she is a lot of fun! Then I have another sister, Sydney. She hates me. When I first got here, she hissed and growled at me. Then she would sit and stare at me. Finally I got tired of her staring at me so I started to chase her. I chase her through the house really fast and daddy said it looks like lighting is going by. Mommy said that is naughty behavior and that we need to work on that, whatever that means!

One day I overheard my mommy telling someone there were two reasons why she brought me home. One, because she loved me, and two, because she did not think anyone else would bring me home because every time visitors came to the shelter I was always hiding under a pile of my friends. Well!!! I cant help it if I did not want anyone to look at me or to touch me! I was scared! It is not my fault I was shy. But after a few days of being home, I sure showed her! She looked at me and said ‘ Where is my shy little Aggie? She disappeared!’ See..with just a little time and patience, my true self came out! Now mommy says I am a little monster!

Every night we have ‘Aggie and Mommy’ time where we lay in the bed together. I roll around and we snuggle and mommy gives me kisses and I give her head butts and we talk. She tells me I am the sweetest, most affectionate kitten she has ever had! And she means it!! Can you believe it?? Me! I bet you don’t, but she is not lying.

We also talk about my sister and two brothers, Basil, Cilantro, and Pesto that are still at the shelter. I miss them. She says she still spends time with them. She gives them special messages for me and she says that they are doing a lot better. We say a prayer for them every night that they will get a special home just like mine in the new year..because we both know they will be just like me if they find their forever home.

Well, I better go. I hear my mommy fixing my dinner! I have to go yell and scream at her. She just loves that!
Thanks for all that you did for me!

Love,
Aggie Mae