July 26, 2017
I met Bela in January 2015, when I agreed to foster a cat for the rescue group, Pets Bring Joy. She had been rescued from a shelter in West Virginia just a short while earlier, and had an upper respiratory infection, a scratchy ear, a rash on her chin, and a bad attack of inflammatory bowel disease. Within days, I had to rush her to the vet, where I realized she was too sick to be adoptable. There was only one thing to do — adopt her myself. She does cat yoga on the sunroom couch, sprawls on my bed like a dog, chatters at the birds and squirrels from the kitchen, and greets all visitors by rubbing up against them. Bela has disproved the notion that cats can't be trained. Within weeks, she learned the command "up" to jump up on the bed for a nighttime treat, and to "sit" and wait for her meals. She also learned to groom my rabbit, Tenzing. For days after I had to put Tenzing to sleep in January, she would shadow me and sit in my lap every time I sat down. — Vineeta Anand
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