‘It took six years of love and nurturing, but here she is asking for pets’: Cat momma who never gave up on her cat distribution system stray finally feels her feline’s touch after years of distance

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Dec 18, 2025 3:00 PM EST

Quite often, the lives of street cats get off to a more than tragic start. You never quite know the cards you are going to be dealt in life, but when you are born a stray, your starter pack of cards are going to be pretty dismal. And the feline hero of this story started with a hand that most people would have thrown in the trash and never looked back at. In fact, someone did do that to her.

But one day, when her rightful cat momma came along, everything began to change. And that which had started out as a Greek tragedy was becoming more and more like a Disney movie with each passing day. And with a whole lot of love and patience, after years of building up comfort and trust, the once scared cat began to feel and act warm towards its savior. A heartwarming and wholesome story to restore the faith of any feisty feline pawrent who is sure their sassy cat children will never cuddle them.

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    "Within her first year she started to lay in bed with me"
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    (A good samaritan found the Gis and her brother tied up in a garbage bag next to a dumpster. They were only a month old and were left with their d d
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    siblings and mother. We're unsure if it was a birth gone wrong and the mother and siblings d.. d, or if this s. -k human being k. ed them. Due to the
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    ages of the Gis and her brother were assuming it was a', e. The Gis has some de issues that could be domly in kittens, so we sometimes
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    wonder if that's why her siblings a..d rather than considering what she may have went through for that first month of her life).
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    They were taken to a shelter where they were evaluated. Her brother was generally unharmed and acted like any normal baby, but the Gis was
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    t She was zed. terrified of humans (especially men), and any unexpected noise or movement would leave her cowering in
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  • Well, yeah, when your life starts out being trapped in a trash bag, you are likely to be rather messed up from the experience. But at least this poor feline managed to survive the torment she was put through in order to begin some sort of healing process.

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    fear. She had severe separation a "ty when her brother was placed in the kitten kennel so she was put in the pen with him. I
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    happened to go in a few days later and as soon as I saw her I knew we were meant to be together. I was only 18 and the women at the shelter
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    tried to convince me that the Gis was unadoptable, as she thought she'd never be a "normal" cat and would inevitably be returned to the
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    shelter and ex" _d. I immediately adopted her and brought her home. Thankfully she got along with my male cat (Dax) who was also a ed
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  • Wow, that is pretty darn lucky that after all she had been through, she would get along with another cat. In many ways cats are more particular about other cats than they are about people, so it is especially impressive that she was able to make a connection like that.

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    (rescued from a hoarder) but it was a long, uphill battle. I would have to wrap her up like a burrito to socialize her, and she hadn't learned how to clean herself
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    yet so I had to wipe hert when she used the bathroom and gave her sponge baths with a warm, damp cloth. She barely ever left my room
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    besides getting food and using the litter box, and any sight of my mom would send her running back to my room and under the bed. She immediately
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    showed some signs of improvement, because while she was still terrified of other people (and of me a lot of the time) she would purr
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    during our socializing sessions. Within her first year she started to lay in bed with me, at a distance and ready to jump, but this
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    showed she was learning to trust me! Within the next 2-3 years she allowed me to pet her for longer amounts of time on her
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    terms, but she would not allow any handling. At 4- 5 she began to sleep next to me and would follow me around the house. She loved to be pet but would
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    easily get frightened. She has changed so much within this past year! She lays in my lap, begs for attention, and purrs basically constantly. I still can't
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    handle her, but whenever I'm home she's always right next to me, begging to be pet. I love her more than life itself, and it breaks my heart knowing
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    that so many cats like her aren't given a chance. She has become the sweetest, cuddliest, most misunderstood cat I've ever had the chance to meet. She
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    has special needs and some brain damage, but I wouldn't change her. She has PICA (most cats try to eat plastic and yarn, but the Gis will try
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    to eat anything bite sized; glass, rubber, coins, dust, lint balls, litter... it's a constant battle!) and dive issues, her short term memory is awful, and vet
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    visits are super scary because of her fear of humans, but every second with her is worth it. She had returned the favor and gave me a reason to
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    keep on going through the hardest moments of my life. At times I| felt the world would be better off without me, that my mom and boyfriend would be
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    relieved if I was gone, but I knew the Gis wouldn't be able to cope without me because I'm the only one she knows and trusts. She's lived with me
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    and my boyfriend for three years now and while she allows him to touch her I know she wouldn't have
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    any quality of life without me. So too bad for her, she's stuck with me for the long run!
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