My wife and I have another rescue cat that we've had for four years. That one, Zoey, is an intelligent, good natured cat. If she hadn't been so good, we never would have gotten a second. We saw Alice's / Ali's picture on your web site, and she just looked so forlorn, with that bad eye and being semi- feral before IAR. My wife said, "Here's one who looks enough like Zoey to play her in the movie." That weekend we went to Pet Smart to get introduced. We were going to just donate money to her upkeep, when my wife casually asked the cost to adopt. The rest is adoption history.
Ali is happy, happy, happy. I know that is anthropomorphizing, but I think it's true. She has a two-volume purr: one standard and one loud which can be heard across the room. She loves Dentabites and will perform for them. I have her jump atop her scratching post and sit.
Her aim in life is do everything that Zoey does, but this is not possible given their difference in body types. She weighs about 10+ lbs now, so she couldn't play skinny Zoey these days. As she aged, her body type unfolded and it is more cobby than Oriental like Zoey's. So we have two cats, same color, different body types.
We have noticed Ali has a tendency towards overeating. If we leave dry food out, she eats until it's gone, probably a habit from her semi-feral days, or maybe just her genetic destiny. She likes to sit on the top of my easy chair while I read and look out the window. She's a good cat with quite a hunting instinct, considering that she doesn't go outdoors at all. She has torn the tails off her play mice and loves to pounce on them.
Don't worry about Alice. She won the lottery.
