When a friend told me she had to take her husband out of town for 4-6 weeks of last-ditch effort chemo treatment and needed to find a temporary home for her cat, I was happy to volunteer because I missed kitty presence.

Katie had arrived just a few hours before and I thought she wouldn't come out from under the bed, but she decided to join me in the guest room. What a lovely creature. I'm told she was found, starving in the woods by a couple of hikers who fostered her and brought her back to health.