Lucky

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We had a cat called Bundy who was great, energetic and super cute but unfortunately now he is up in cat heaven. He loved other cats and always brought other cats from our neighbours over like topaz who we saved from mean owners, but this story isn't about him. It's about Lucky.

On Monday it was bin night we would put out our bins and rubbish bags on the front varrandah for the morning but some how they always used to be torn open with banana skins everywere and bottles scatterd around. No one knew what it was, I thought it was a possom, but we were all wrong. In fact it was a stray black and white fluffy mog. We stole a glance now and then of the cat, he had scars and scratches all over him he had little dreadlock looking things all over his body and got scared very easily.

Every monday or any day we would all go outside nice and slowly to try and find lucky, we are cat people so we would not hurt him, we could tell he had been treated badly in the past so we wanted him to have the best future possible. I tried to pat him but if i got to close.......he would go.

My sister was very lucky one day when she went out and found him, as she reached over he came foward as well and nuzzled his head into her hand. That was the first time for us he came close and probobly the first time for him aswell. Everyone was so happy and so was the cat. It took so long for him to gain our trust but soon that day came. My mother went out the most and patted him all the time, she put out food for him and water and he gobbled it up as fast as you would have ever seen a cat eat. My mum reached over for a pat and suddenly she heard a purrrrrrr. He purred!!!! For the first time!! I was so exited and happy i was jumping up and down.

From then on everyone patted him and loved him. My mother, sister, brother and I all wanted him to be ours and us to be his, so we clicked our fingers and said in a high calm voice 'come here sweetie' and guess what he came. One of us picked him up and popped him in a cage, I hoped he didn't think we were going to be mean to him after all this time. Once we placed him in the carry cage we took him to the vet to see if he had been microchipped and to be cleaned up. The vet scanned the back of him with the little device several times but nothing came up. He said that no one had micro chipped him and he did look pretty scruff,so he could be ours. I imaginge he would have had a tough life, living in the drains, streets and fighting for his food. Soon he won't have to do any of that. The vet said that he was about four years old and that he needed to be wormed and desexed. So that was done.

We took him home and opened up the cage and knew that our new family member needed a name! As we were thinking an add came on the the tv and there was a fake black and white fluffy cat looked exactly the same. It was the Lucky Lotto cat. We all knew then that his name would be Lucky, besides he is pretty lucky. Now Lucky wanders around our home playing with our other two cats Topaz abd Indigo. He bakes in the sun and cuddles us. Lucky is now 10 and has had a great time but he still has those memories of before we found him, but hopefully that won't happen anymore.