Little Miss Maggie


I am happy to report that our little mini kitty Maggie is doing great. Thanks to so many prayers from my fellow animal lovers. Her kidney count is still high but she is acting like normal and seems to be very content. She will have to be an indoor cat from now on, but I'm happy with that.
I had to tell a story about something that happened on the day she was doing the worst and we were sure we were going to lose her.
I had just gotten off the phone with the vet and wasn't too happy with the news. He was pretty sure she wouldn't make it through. It frustrated me how negative he was. Although after this phone call I was a bit depressed myself.
Maggie was born to a barn cat owned by the Saur family. There were originally 4 kittens. The mother cat had disappeared when they were only a couple of weeks old and was never found again. One of the kittens didn't make it but the other three were nursed by hand by my son's girlfriend Kim until she couldn't do it anymore due to her school and work schedule. At that point I volunteered to take over. I loved it. Course, after they were old enough to find a home, we were too attached to let them go and the one that Kim had wanted to take home was too delicate to be an outdoor cat. So we ended up with Mr Gretta, Lilly, and little Maggie. When Maggie was just a little bitty thing, she found a mini-beanie squirrel toy from Alex's toy box. She would carry that squirrel around the house and howl as if she had caught a mouse or something. After a while the toy fell apart and pretty much disappeared. When we moved out to our new home I decided there was enough land for the three cats to be indoor outdoor. Each evening I would call them all in so they were safe. One evening Mr Gretta didn't show up. So Alex and I went looking for him only to find him in the work shop with a broken leg. $500 in surgery and lots of prayer later, we were able to save the leg and he is fat and healthy. He will be an indoor only since he still has a few issues with his leg.
Then we had the Maggie incident. We're still thinking she must have gotten into some antifreeze or something like it.
Now for the cool part.
After we got the depressing phone call from the vet...
Alex and I decided to go to one of the thrift stores in town to kill some time before we had to pick up the boys, and as we were walking out Alex noticed, in a 25cent basket, there was a mini-beanie squirrel exactly like the one that Maggie had as a toy when she was little.
After so much prayer, I knew that was God's way of telling me she was going to be OK. There is no other way to explain it. We found the squirrel on the DAY we were given the worst news, and the squirrel was the PERFECT sign.
You can't say God doesn't exist after something like that.

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