Thomas - his story.

A few years ago we were going to go to the Cats Protection as we really wanted to get a cat.  Being honest at the time I wanted a dog as I have always grown up around dogs but because we were at work all day we thought it would be cruel on a dog.  I am so glad we did not get a dog now.

In the meantime we had a call from one of Mike's relations who was elderly and living in sheltered accomodation, they had been taking a cat in that had been left homeless.   They told us some nights it would be pouring with rain and this cat would be on the doorstep miaowing, they would just let him in although they had no food for him.  They knew he had been left homeless as they knew of the lady who owned him and she just moved out leaving the cat behind....!
They started buying food for him and taking him in every night but as they lived in sheltered accomodation they were not really allowed pets.  They asked if we would like to give him a home and straight away we said yes!   We knew nothing about him only that he was a ginger tom and he was an adult cat, although we never knew his age.  

I remember the day he came to live with us so well.  Mike and his father went to collect him, when they brought him in the front door I thought how huge he was, he had the most beautiful markings and an adorable little face with big green eyes. 

The first couple of weeks we did not know how Thomas would react, he would not get too close to us and was very distant and quite sad. He woud sit alone and sleep for hours in a room on his own. I hated seeing him like this but I suppose he needed time to settle as cats hate upheaval and change!  

Eventually after a while he started to come around to spending time with us and we showered him with so much love and attention. 

Then in July 2008 he went missing two days before we flew to The Algarve.  We searched all the roads in the surrounding area for him but he was nowhere to be seen.  On the Sunday we had to leave early to get our flight and he had beeing missing since Friday,  as we checked in at the airport I could not hold back the tears I did not want to go on holiday and the lady at the check in desk thought I was scared of flying.  

After a terrible nights sleep and constant crying on the Sunday we were on the beach the following morning when we had a call from Mike's mum saying Thomas had returned home and was quite put out that we were not there apparently he ran straight to his food cupboard miaowing, he was obviously starving.

We think he got locked in a garage over the weekend as he is too nosey for his own good! He even got trapped in our garage once! We wondered where he was as he had not come home and heard him miaowing he must have followed Mike in there earlier in the day.

Now Thomas loves being part of the family he follows us everywhere, he is the most loving cat.   He loves being tickled and played with.  Most nights he sleeps on the bed with us he hates being left downstairs at night and he follows Mike everywhere even into the bathroom.

He is our baby and is spoilt rotten, besides his normal cat food and biscuits he gets cooked turkey and chicken from the deli, roast beef and tinned salmon and he loves a bit of cheese.

He has his little quirks he hates the refuse lorries and hides from them and he also hates strangers coming to the house, in fact he is very wary of people which makes me think he was treated badly by someone in the past. He is ok once he gets to know they are a nice person though.

The funniest thing about Tommy is when he yawns he crosses his eyes, I find it so sweet.  Also when a friend of mine stayed once he tried to pull the duvet cover of her in the night, he had held onto the end of the duvet and she had to hold her end tightly, like a game of tug and war! I still laugh when I think about that.

I just wanted to share the story of our cat (baby) Thomas, also know as Tommy, Tom Tom, Tom lad, little lad or Tom bomb, because he bombs around the place sometimes!  

Do you have nicknames for your pets?

I have loads more photos of him and some quite comical ones but for some reason I had trouble uploading them!

He likes showing his tongue ha ha

Tomorrow I shall be doing an outfit post and my giveaway is coming very soon.

Lisa-Jane

xx