The Turtle Tabby
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cat Really Did That?
By Terilynn Mitchell

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.
~American Proverb

For thirteen years, I worked in a low-cost, no-kill veterinary clinic as a registered veterinary technician. We were located in a poorer area of Hollywood, California, and numerous animals were abandoned at our hospital. We would patch them up and get them adopted. We were pretty good at it, too!

Under rare circumstances, however, an adoption would not work out, and the animal was returned to us. There were many reasons — sometimes valid and sometimes ridiculous. One cat, for example, was returned to us five years after her adoption, because the owner was pregnant and feared the cat “would suck the breath” out of her new baby. Telling her this was a myth didn’t faze her. (Keep reading)