1 Month With Our Rescue Kitten Stanley

In case you didn’t hear, we adopted another rescue kitten! John and I started our marriage with three cats and one dog, and we spent nine blissful years with our crew of fur babies. But over the course of the past five years starting in 2020, we unfathomably lost all four of those pets (plus a fifth that we adopted during that time), all to unrelated health problems. It has been a really difficult period for us as pet parents, especially since we’re human child-free and consider our pets our kids. I’ve always pictured us getting back to that “three cats and a dog” pack, and we’re finally there now with what we hope are four healthy rescue pet kiddos.

Since losing our one-year-old boy Joe a little over a year ago, I’ve been aching to add another boy cat to our family. I finally admitted this to our vet recently who has given us two of our most recent rescue pets, and so she added this tidbit of info to the back of her mind in case she happened to come across a boy kitten that she thought would be a good fit for us. It wasn’t long before she found herself with a very underweight and scared stray who needed a nurturing home, and we’re so lucky that she trusted us to be his new family.

Stanley has been with us for a month now, and is settling into his new domesticated life very well, as I’m sure you can see in today’s post photos. He’s very timid and shy, but is learning to trust us more and more each day. He and I bonded right from the get-go, though, and whenever he and I lock eyes, I can hear his little purrs start rumbling through the room. The feeling is mutual!

John and I are, of course, in love with him, and our two cats and one dog are coming around to accepting him. Surprisingly, Gladys Jean, our youngest female cat (she just turned one) took to him faster than expected. Maybe it’s because she’s closer in age to Stanley (who, we think, is about three months old), but they spend most of the day chasing and playing together. We hope our two-and-a-half-year-old, Marlo, comes around soon. Welcome to the family, Stanley! I’m sure you’ll be seeing him a lot more here on the blog, so stay tuned for updates if you’re a cat lover, too.