I received a call from a guy who told me that his wife had unexpectedly divorced him and left behind two cats when she moved. He said he had been trying to get ahold of her for a year, with no results and he is not a cat person and he can’t keep these two siamese anymore. So off I went to pick them up.

I arrived home and put them both upstairs in the kitten room and just let them decompress. They are 6 years old and beautiful seal points.

About an hour later, I went back upstairs to see how they were doing and the minute I opened the door- I had a full- attack mode Siamese in my face! He was scratching and clawing and yowling and biting MAN ALIVE! I am used to that from a stray or a feral but NOT an owner-surrendered cat. There is a large cat bed by the door, and I blindly grabbed it and placed it over my face- shoving the cat away from me and beat a hasty retreat. I sat on the top of the stairs until I stopped shaking. I could hear the cat inside and he was sounding like he was being tortured. He was not a happy kitty.

I called the gentleman back and simply told him I wasn’t going to deal with his cats and what had happened and he LAUGHED! He told me I probably didn’t know what I was doing and the cat in question was a complete love. I told him regardless, I was going to bring the cats to him as soon as I could put them both in a carrier. He told me good luck with that! Then just said drop them in the yard, they will know they are home.

This time I went into the room prepared, with two long sleeve shirts, leather gloves, jeans tucked into my boots and a wool blanket.

In twenty minutes i had both cats inside carriers and out the door. The screeching they made when I was trying to get them inside was loud enough even Mike downstairs heard them- and he can’t hear much of anything these days!

I took them back, dropped them into their yard and apologized to them for doing so because someone has put a lot of hate into these beauties. I am getting older and if they were strays, I would have worked with them- but these are cats that are bonded to one person whether or not he likes it or not. They are already on edge because of the divorce and heaven only knows what this fella did to them when his wife moved out. I have had a lot of siamese here- both older and younger and have never actually been scared of any of them until yesterday. Guess I flunked cat rescue 101 yesterday but at least, I have finally stopped shaking.