Sean's Story

The Story of

Sean McDougal

Seems like all the women in my life have loved cats. My mom from day one and then all the rest of them also adored cats but the current blond woman wins the prize. With five cats in her house that is also filled with hundreds of cat “collectibles” she is a certifiable, over-the-top Cat Lady. That’s why, in playing the hand God dealt me, I’ve always been around and tolerated the cats in my life. Some that I’d even grown somewhat attached to but I was always a dog person. Working dogs, mind you. I had a German Shepard when I was a kid and much later in life had an Australian Cattle Dog (part wild dingo), a German Shorthair Pointer and my last one was an English Smooth Fox Terrier. When she died, my heart was broken and I was done with animals. 

Then a year later, the blond woman came over to my house after our church service on Father's Day in June and saw this tiny little black and white “tuxedo” kitten at the feral cat’s feeding bowl in my yard. She easily caught it, brought it inside and sat down with it on the couch. The kitten was half scared-to-death and crawled up under her shirt to hide from the human monsters. I didn’t want a cat, but she already had too many, so I reluctantly put it in my spare bathroom with a barrier that I could easily step over but the kitten could not get out. He was so frightened of me that he’d run and hide behind the toilet every time he saw me. He was only six weeks old but he was completely wild and I couldn’t touch him without him squirming to get away. I thought that maybe he would imprint on me as he did his mom if we imitated a kitten’s natural feeding routine. So I lay down on the floor with his kitten food in a small bowl right next to me. Now he’d come running over and sit close to me while I petted him as he ate. It worked and he soon bonded to me. And, as I was to eventually find out, it worked and I soon bonded to him.

Wouldn't it be now that the blond lass comes from the McDougal clan in Ireland and that's how Sean McDougal got his name.

Read more about the life of Sean McDougal in "Resolutions"

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