Six months ago today we collected our gorgeous kitty cat from a small local rescue. I admit I worried that having been accommodated in a wooden pen in a shed for the last seven months of her life, and badly neglected previous to that, she may be timid and wary of humans. I needn’t have worried.

She doesn’t care to be picked up, but that’s not to say we can’t handle her if we need to. She is however the biggest, softest, love bug of a cat you can imagine. The first day she came home she climbed up on each of us and made herself cosy. Our gorgeous moggy is happiest when near her humans. If one is unavailable, the other will equally suffice.

She can be a little needy at times. She will follow us round ‘moaning at us’ especially if we’re busy doing stuff and not paying her any attention. All she desires is for us to stop being busy, and give her some fuss. She likes to be near, sometimes very near, like laying on my chest with her tail on my face! Or she’ll put her face next to mine and purr loudly in my ear.

If we go out, we very often return to her hiding in the drawer of one of my storage units, or occasionally behind the bed. She seems to like an enclosed space to reassure herself.

It still beggars belief how anyone could neglect a cat like her or give her up. She’s an absolute dream and no trouble at all. Seriously, our gain.

She has a wonderful relationship with Chris, my adult son. He is smitten with her and pays her regular visits. She in turn allows him to wrap her in a blanket or play with her with her toys, way longer than her heart is really in it. I always say she humours him.

She is 100% the perfect cat for us. She seems to be as happy with us as we are with her. She appears when we eat dinner to see which of us will cave first and offer her a tasty morsel and then sits looking at us until we make a space on the sofa for her to sit between us. I make no apologies for saying I love her to bits.

She is totally in tune with our mental health. Days when we have both struggled she has been known to share her snuggles between us. I’m so thankful for the times she’s come to me and administered her healing purrs. She’s very astute.

She still remains incognito on social media because of having been rescued locally. But here’s a tiny taster.