“Helpless” To Resist Adopting This Cat
California, Musical Mayhem, Pets & Animals, Spouses & Partners, USA, Vet | Romantic | November 16, 2018
(My husband and I have been talking about getting a new cat for a while now. I’m set on getting a rescue, but my husband is set on getting the same breed as our last cat, who was a retired grand champion Scottish Fold. One morning one of our clients comes in with a stray cat she found. She can’t keep him because all her cats hate him, so the doctor agrees that he can wait out the stray hold period with us. Before I even start work that day it is already decided by all of my coworkers that if he doesn’t get claimed I am taking him home. He is a scrawny cat with folded ears, obviously a half-breed with an American Shorthair on the other side. My husband comes by to pick me up for lunch and gets taken back to the kennel room to meet the cat. It is love at first sight, and on the way to lunch we have the following conversation.)
Husband: “So… what’s his name?”
Me: “We haven’t decided yet. The doc was thinking Hamish or Shamish, [Coworker
#1 ] voted for Haggis, and [Coworker
#2 ] said Macbeth. I was thinking maybe Jamie for the Doctor Who character… What do you suggest?”
Husband: “Well… I mean he is handsome, and boy, does he know it.”
Me: “Yeah, he is.”
Husband: “And he has those intelligent eyes and a hunger pang frame.”
Me: “Yes, he does.”
Husband: “And you look into those eyes and you’re helpless, right?”
Me: “Yeah… What are you getting at?”
Husband: “You haven’t figured it out yet?”
Me: “No…”
Husband: “Well, babe, he’s—” *starts singing* “—a b*****d, orphan, son of a w**** and a Scotsman, dropped in a forgotten spot in [Shopping Center].”
Me: *finally catching on* “Oh, dear.”
Husband: “Alexander Hamilcat! His name is Alexander Hamilcat, and there’s a million things he hasn’t done, but just you wait, just you wait…”
(We took Alexander home a month later. He is curled up in my lap as I type this.)