My last post was about Sarah, her cat and Canadian air. It hit home because one day I'll be leaving Korea with two cats. I didn't plan on having any cats, let alone two.... but then a friendly cat showed up outside my work and I took pity on him, had him neutered and named him Bear. Geumbi, my personal cat from hell, is also my dearest love. Loved by a Korean woman, hated and beaten by her husband, she was given to a shelter with her litter mate who died. She lived in shelter a long time, and, after finding a foster, was returned three months later only to got into liver failure. (She did this again, after coming home with me.) Through all of this, she had a serious auto-immune disease. Pain was the root cause of most of her neurotic behaviors and the only semi-successful treatment was full tooth extraction. Nobody was going to take this cat. I mean Nobody. And if she went back to the shelter she would have died. The fact that I did adopt her does not negate that she suffered for years. Anyway, because Geumbi is easily stressed taking her back to the states is a huge concern. I'm worried about Bear too because he may be too big to go under the seat and airlines have been known to crush pets... well, it's something I worry about. And because I'm as neurotic as Geumbi, I am worrying about it now, perhaps years in advance. Sigh. Ps: As I type, Geumbi Girl is laying with her head just by my keyboard, legs limp, eyes blinking cat "I love yous." Comments are closed.
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