Many Christmas’s ago, Joanne’s family drove to a shelter to adopt a fluffy orange male cat. A staff volunteer pointed to a gray Persian called a Blue Persian. She pleaded with Joanne, “Please lady, take this female cat! The owner left crying because they lost their home.” 

 

So, their family adopted the beautiful cat and sent away for its name tag, Sophia. Sadly, within a week their new kitty became deathly ill and had to be put down. 

 

“We were grateful that this loving kitty died knowing she had a home and was loved by a family,” said Joanne. “Well, what to do? Her name tag arrived in the mail, so we went to another shelter, adopted a brown tabby and named her Sophia-Sophia in honor of the first Sophia.

 

Their new cat was special and came with gifts.

“She became my healing cat because she placed her body wherever I had pain,” said Joanne.

“She’d wedge herself into my back or my stomach. She’d naturally lay wherever there was pain as if she could see it and wanted to nurse us back to health. A fun fact from “The Cat From Hell” TV show is that science has proven that a cat’s purr can help heal broken bones and lower blood pressure.

 

When our grandson, Ben, was sick, I placed her in his bed announcing, “Keep the ‘healing cat’ near you.”  Ben re-furred to her as his ‘fluffy healing pad’ because she was the best heating pad and company!

 

Sophia lived a long and happy life. What a blessing for her and us because she was saved from a kill shelter where she had no hope.

 

There are Sophias in all shelters waiting to become your healing cat. Please consider a shelter cat as so many will never have the chance to heal and love you. Also, never gift someone else a pet. You don’t want it to innocently end back up at a shelter.”

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Congratulations on your new Christmas pet! If it is a baby, it will be cold without its siblings. Wear your sweatshirt hoody backwards making a paw-fect snuggling pouch to tote the fur baby. Following are some name suggestions.

 

 

 

Mary Ellen's Silver Persians swam their way into readers and viewer's hearts!

 

Several National and International TV shows featured the swimming felines teaching pet-water-safety.

 

Their furry faces also appeared on a line of t-shirts and on Animal Planet and Anderson Cooper's show.

 

They have appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world. (France, England, Canada, China, Germany, USA, etc.) and are mentioned in Chicken Soup for the Soul books.