When I found Zack, aka Prince Zachary, he was a 2 month old kitten, much larger than the other kittens at the day-care center. The center was owned by people with a farm who'd had litters of kittens and come to find out he was the only one left of one of the original litters and we simply could not pass up the opportunity to rescue this gorgeous gray and tan boy from a life of hay and mice (which was lucky because he's a terrible mouser!). He's never been a playful kitty and we wondered why!
He's apparently a bit of an inspiration to even the street-hardened tom's that frequented our condo community! They would come to our enclosed patio and sit and "talk" for hours to our resident "sage" through the screen door of our patio and they would also line up at the front screen door as well. We thought this was perhaps just an instance where the local cats were curious.
Upon relocation to my parents house during my husbands recooperation from hospitalization - we quickly came to realize that our experience at our condo was not an isolated instance! Before long, our Zach had feline visitors lined up on all the window sills coming to "talk" with him!! It's the most amazing thing I've ever witnessed and I've had cats my whole life. Every morning, he would sit on the inside window sill and dispatch his "advice" to a long line of seekers - for what seemed like hours! My husband has turned to calling him our Zen Zackie!! And to think this was our former barn-cat!
Fresno, CA
