Sylvie

One day late last year I went to the Paulding county shelter to pull a couple of kittens for AARF's adoption program. My husband and I have fostered for AARF before, but with full-time jobs and graduate school about to start, we weren't really planning on taking on any more foster pets at the moment. That is, of course, until I saw Sylvie in the cat adoption room. There was something really special about her that I just couldn't put my finger on. I took her out of her cage and held her as I waited on paperwork, and she fell asleep on my chest. Somehow I left the shelter that day without her, although for the rest of the week I just couldn't stop thinking about her. My husband and I decided that we would give her a couple of weeks to see if she would get adopted and, if not, we would go back and get her and foster her. A couple of weeks went by and Sylvie was still there, which meant she didn't have much more time left to find a home before she would become a statistic.
We couldn't let that happen, so we went to the shelter and brought her home to foster her. It only took a month for us to realize that she was meant to be ours forever. She is the most outgoing, loving cat we have ever met. She loves to play just as much as she loves to cuddle. She quickly adjusted to our dogs, and now she is often seen cuddling with them when our laps aren't available. She also did the impossible and won over our other cat, Taylor, within just a couple of weeks of living with us. Taylor has never accepted any other cat we've brought into the house. However, he and Sylvie are now best friends. They play all night and sleep all day, and share a great love of canned food, catnip, and toy wands. While we weren't looking to add another furry member to the family at the time, we are so glad we did. We couldn't imagine life without our little Sylvie.
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