I found Gray almost one year ago. She had brought two kittens to my yard to get water from a dish I put out the night before in the middle of a heat wave. My neighbor called me to tell me she saw Gray as she carried each kitten back across a busy highway. I went out and searched til I found them - there were six kittens and my Gray who was feral (meaning scared, abandoned as a kitten by ignorant people) and who had somehow survived a full winter and had 6 healthy kittens. I found them living in a yard under a broken down deck for protection. The owners of the home happened to be away for a month! Thank god! It took me from 6/7/09 to 7/12/09 to fox trap all 7 of them. The kittens are all placed in homes. During this time, I had a disc nearly in my spinal cord from a car accident and I was in chronic pain. I was misinformed by the wonderful doctors here in Princeton, NJ on how bad I was, but I have since have cervical fusion. Gray was in my homemade cat condo for six months and I stayed on the couch across from her the full six months every night, including during recovery from my neck surgery! I did not want her to think she was alone. It took a lot of hard work to integrate Gray to my apartment. Now Gray is now with my two Bengal rescue cats (8 year old siblings, boy and a girl) and I am working with behavior modification with them. Please pray that my cats accept her!
Suzanne NewmanPrinceton, NJ
