Well folks I have some BIG news!!!!!! You need to be sitting down for this one!!
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Mikey has found himself a wonderful new home !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I've known it was a possibility for a good few weeks now but just haven't dared post anything just in case it didn't all come together…but now that it has I just couldn’t wait a minute longer to share it with you all
A few weeks ago I had a lovely email from a couple called Natalie and Martyn expressing their interest in Mikey….although they have never had a paralysed cat before they have had several special needs cats, and having lost their very special little blind boy called Stuart (Little) last Sept they had been keeping an eye open for another cat who they felt needed that extra special home….
Here's the amazing bit that proves that fate has had a hand in this and in my mind it was meant to be......
They couldn’t actually live much farther away as they are in Scotland! Lol. However….Natalie works from home doing glasswork in her own studio and hence they were coming down for the Stourbridge Glass Festival at the end of August and felt it would be an ideal opportunity to spend lots of time with Mikey and see if they felt they could truly manage his care. So...of all the places in the UK they could have been going on holiday, it just so happened it was Stourbridge!
So the weekend before last, they had their first 'Mikey' visit to meet him and have a good look at the set up I have here. They then went away for a few days walking and gave lots of practical consideration as to whether they could truly take on his care. When I received the text I hardly dare read it lol, but the answer was positive, and so they have been back this weekend and spent time with him on Fri, Sat and Sun...learning all there is to know about his care.
So…..on the 25th Sept he will go to his new home....I will take him and help set him up in his new environment...stay overnight....and then visit him again before heading back down and leaving him to start his new life
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I'm sure I will be crying on and off all the way back!lol. Of course it will be a wrench and I will miss my little man desperately, but it's what I've always wanted for him and I couldn't've wished for a nicer couple to come along and offer him a home. And with me starting my new job in September it will be a huge weight off my mind not having to worry about him stuck in my pen for long days and nights with the winter drawing in…..
They do have 2 other cats, Walter and Poppy, so as always with these things its on the premise that if he really doesn't settle with them he would have to come back, but I know that they will do the introductions slowly and give it plenty of time....and that's why I have been introducing him to Joey and getting him used to being with other cats. We all have high hopes that one day he will be sharing Poppy's bean bag in front of the Aga……
I know you'll all be as happy for him as I am...and from both Mikey and I we'd like to say a BIG thank you to all of you for your ongoing support....Natalie spotted him on Purrs and has been keeping up to date with his story on both Purrs and CC so it really is the forums that have made this all possible....
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