lucky dog
CNN.com - House contract carries long-term leash - Mar 8, 2006
SCOTT CITY, Missouri (AP) -- Housing contracts can get complicated in a hurry. Just consider the clause that Jared and Whittnie Essner agreed to when they bought their first home last week:"Rocky will be allowed to remain in home (with lots of love, care and attention) and negotiated visitation rights from current master. Chain link fence stays for him."
Our house came with a cat. Puff had belonged to the former owner's wife for ~18 years (her "childhood cat," as she put it), and when they divorced, the wife (hereafter known as Creep #1) decided to leave Puff behind when she moved out. Nice. Ex-hubby (Creep #2) tossed Puff into the garage (she had been an indoor cat) and fed her low-grade dry cat food. During her exile Puff was attacked by dogs and nearly killed by a raccoon. When we bought the house we said we'd take Puff as well, and moved her back inside where she lived happily until her death at age 20 two years later. She loved American cheese and would stand by the refrigerator every night demanding her bedtime slice. She was a sweet, if somewhat imperious, old coot. If she wanted to sit in your lap, you let her.
How two people can dump a cat they've had for 18 years still escapes me.