How We Got Misty, Our Mexican Cat, and Other Adventures

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Misty is 15 now, maybe 16. I don't exactly know because she was a young street cat in Mexico when we first met her. We were traveling around and met some interesting expats in the small town of Bernal, in the state of Queretaro. We stayed there several weeks and during that time w became friendly with a man had a really charming house. He drove into the city of Queretaro quite often, and we would go in with him to explore the city and do errands.

Well, one day he asked us if we could take a kitten off his hands. She had just dashed inside his house when the street door was open and a dog was chasing her. Our friend was highly allergic to cats.

Misty was very cute. At that time, we had rented a simple house in Bernal. Our plan was to go back to the U.S. for a couple of weeks. We would make some arrangments for our house and business there, then come back and stay for a few months in the house in Bernal. You can see its tile floors in the above picture. Our landlord lived next door and we already knew he was a cat lover so we asked him if he could feed her and keep an eye on her, and he said sure.

Before we left, I had a chance to bond with her, as you can see in this photo that my husband Kelly took. (Gee, it's been a while since my hair was brown.) Well, anyway, we had two cats at home in Colorado.We were planning to leave them in our house there, with a friend living in it.

But back to Mexico... it was a bit much to ask our landlord to clean out a litterbox. So Kelly designed a space over the dirt yard, where she could climb around and also use the dirt for her potty. We could clean it up when we got back.Below is the back of the house, and you can see that the yard is nothing special. She would have the lower floor of the house, including our bedroom, to herself.

Here she is on a ledge, with an old ladder which she loved to climb on.

But she really would need to be more secure while we were away. The landlord's cat was too bossy. Kelly closed off the house and built her a safe area. The larger cat wasted no time in checking it out but he couldn't get in.

One day, Misty was exceptionally cuddly. She was in heat, we figured out, and it was all the better that we could confine her. This also meant she was older than we had realized. The local veterinarian couldn't spay her. Large livestock were his thing. But she was out of heat soon. We would deal with spaying when we got back.

I was in tears the day we left Misty there and headed to Colorado. There, we learned that some of our closest friends were going to adopt a baby near Lake Chapala. They would be living there for half a year or more. So we decided to route ourselves past Lake Chapala on our way back.

Then we had a chance to sell our Colorado home to some other friends. We did, and all this took us months, not the weeks we had expected. Our two American cats got boarded out with some other friends of ours in Colorado.

When we did go back to Mexico, it was in our Toyota Dolphin, with our dog Larry. We stopped in the Lake Chapala area as planned, to see our friends and their new baby.



Life has a way of changing plans, and we ended up buying this cute little house in that area.(This photo is after Kelly added solar panels and glassed in the front porch.) As soon as we could, we boarded our dog for a couple of days and went to get Misty. She recognized us, all right, but she was mad at being left alone for months. But we caught her easily and drove back to our new place. She settled in with us. With steep rock walls and fences around the property, at first we let her outside a lot, but we soon were told by other expats that the local people used rat poison freely and it wasn't a good idea to let our cat run loose.

So Misty became a house cat. Later we brought our cat Moonlight down from Colorado, and the two cats became friends. But that's another story.

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They're all incredible. Somewhere, I once heard that the yellow tabbies are usually the most intelligent. Hard to argue that one in light of this story: a stray yellow tabby came to my home for eats. On moving day, I came out with a load for the back seat, and there he was smack-dab in the middle of it. I already had two and had had to negotiate to get them into the new place. So after reluctantly moving him out of the car and going back in for another load, I came out to find him in the exact same spot in the back seat.

He's still with me now, after 10 years. I know by now who's boss.

Love that story! We had a male yellow tabby once and he was a great cat.

Wow, Rosana! What a lovely story! I so much enjoyed it. I felt like living that lifestyle.

Israel Olatunji

So nice to read your comment, Israel, since I have learned so much from your trainings.

I love the tory of Misty, Rosana! I can't wait for the next installment! Tig-Tig agrees!

Jeff

What are wonderful cat story. Thank you for sharing an important part of your life.

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