I thought it was about time I introduced you to Bubu, our very first Eastern European rescue. Without him and his gentle ways, we would never have brought over another eight cats from both Romania and Bulgaria.
Bubu and his mother were being fed outside, where they spent most of their time living under a parked car. Then one day the rescuer found Bubu seriously injured, having been kicked very hard. The vet operated to repair a ruptured diaphragm and also to “unstick” his liver from his heart. He stopped breathing for a long time, but the vet refused to give up and miraculously he survived. She and I are now friends on Facebook.
We brought him over just before Christmas 2012. A few months later we adopted Bijou as a playmate and they are besotted with one another. He has welcomed each and every other rescue the same way and we would be lost without him. He loves nothing more than to sleep in my arms all night and to ride on our shoulders. Still playful at the age of five, he adores going round our old house, checking in every corner for spiders. It’s not unusual to come downstairs in the morning to find a disassembled spider on the kitchen floor.
You were, indeed, most fortunate to have Bubu rescue you. Yes, I do realize that many humans feel they are the ones who do the rescuing but we shall just let them go on thinking so as long as they behave… Mademoiselle Colette and Madame Simone
I love that idea and thank you! 🙂
Oh the sweet thing. <3
Bubu looks just like my brother Bilbo, also a gentle soul (except to spiders, rodents and rabbits). I’m so glad you rescued him!
What is it with spiders? I found another disassembled one in the bath the other day…
Hi Bubu, lovely cuddly guy 😀
I love happy endings!
Ciao
Sid
Hi Sid! We love happy endings too 🙂
More photos please? Cheers,H
I afraid I can’t amend the post now, but I will certainly be doing more in the future 🙂
What a lovely story!???
what a beautiful story about a beautiful cat <3
Thank you. We think he’s rather handsome too 🙂
Kicking a kitten? People who do that for animals need to have a bit of Karma gracing their lives. He sound like a little love. ?
I’m afraid this isn’t unusual in Eastern Europe 🙁
There are people like that all over the world. I didn’t mean to zero in on just one area. I love the angels that adopt little sweethearts. 🙂
Why do people have to be so brutal to animals I get so upset when I read about the cruelty and I imagine what the pain would have been like it’s horrible.x?
Sadly it’s a reflection of the world today and why we now have nine cats from Eastern Europe. It breaks my heart that we can’t adopt any more 🙁
Looks like the cat is having fun. good post.
Bubu always has fun. He’s hunting more spiders as I type 😀
Go Bubu get rid of those spiders.
Hahaha… I think he heard you! 🙂
OK he heard me but does he know spiders are supposed to be lucky. I heard that somewhere.
“Spiders are supposed to be lucky” – never heard of that, but I don’t think the owner of the unattached legs that I hoovered up the other was very lucky 😀
? I smoosh spiders when I can
No problem
Sorry… that was supposed to be the other “morning”
A wonderful, inspirational story with a happy ending. Thanks for sharing …
You are more than welcome 🙂
You guys are angles to the abandoned and abused. God bless
That’s not really true, but thank you anyway 🙂
Beautiful story Zooey. Poor Bubu had such a traumatic start to his life. It’s amazing that he’s such a lovely boy now after that. You must’ve shown him lots of care and love. He’s beautiful inside and out. ??
It’s all down to the cats and their rescuers. We have nine from Eastern Europe and six of those have been abused. The rescuers show them so much love that the cats are totally transformed 🙂