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Harold's Happy Ending Story

Enjoy this update on Harold’s new life. For those of you who don’t know, his life previous to Good Mews was living locked up in a filthy pen in the backyard with other cats, very little food and horrific conditions.

Read on to hear about his new wonderful beginning!

I wanted to give you an update on a cat I adopted in June 2007. His name is Harold.

Harold is a non-alpha cat. And, as expected, he was quite shy upon arrival. When he first arrived he hid behind the washer and dryer for a few days. He didn’t even come out to eat during that time. Eventually, he ventured out while I was sleeping at night to explore his surroundings and to get a bite to eat. However, by the next morning, he’d be back in hiding. He then changed his mind and started hiding behind a toilet.

After he changed hiding locales, he eventually decided to come out over to the edge of the bathroom floor to let me pet him. However, he would not come down the hallway out to the great room in the daytime for well over a week. He seemed afraid of any and all activity in that area of the house. I just made regular visits to him in the bathroom while he adjusted.

Then, one day, he decided things were okay and ventured outside his comfort zone. Since then, he’s all over the house. He likes to run up and down the hallway as fast as he can following me around the house trying to be the first back to the room he thinks I’m going to. He’s a real mooch soaking up all the brushing and petting he can get. He’ll lounge all over you if you let him.

Harold is still tentative with strangers and will oftentimes go into hiding, but if he sees you’ll brush him you can win him over pretty easily.

We did have a round of health issues last December/January with several trips to the vet. What started with a stinky mouth turned into having about 8 more teeth pulled. He has an allergy to plaque in his mouth. Some condition with stomatitis in it. He also had a bacterial infection in his mouth on top of the other condition which required antibiotics. He now only has 4 remaining teeth – his canines. Hopefully he’ll hold onto those. Hasn’t stopped him from eating the dry food though. He really doesn’t like wet food. In fact, when he ate wet food after having the teeth pulled, he developed urinary crystals. Then, we had to put him on an Rx diet which luckily cleared that up. Since that time, he’s been A-okay. Just had his annual checkup. All is well!

After I put my last cat to sleep, I didn’t really expect to find another cat of similar quality. However, I’m happy to say that I have found an exceptional cat. He’s definitely in his forever home no matter where I go in life.

Thank you for the adoption! I’m attaching a photo of Harold too.
Laura

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