![]() I had a happiness in me,” Taylor said after Coco was reunited with her daughters in Michelle Chang’s Irvine apartment.Īt Saturday’s reunion, Coco slinked out of the same baby blue kennel that Chavez tearfully placed her in before saying goodbye.īefore acknowledging the sisters, Coco opened a closet and sat inside, hid behind a TV, and jumped on the same gray couch she years ago had clawed. She showed the cat’s picture to co-workers and took the rest of the day off. Taylor was at work when the call came that her favorite pet was alive and well and found in the area the family had searched so many times. Her health was good, save for one broken tooth, and she was estimated to be 2 years old (She is actually 10). “I know she knew we were going to help her.”Ī full checkup revealed the cat was microchipped. Chavez tearfully scooped up the kitty and put her in the portable crate Brooks had brought to the hotel. The organization run by Jenifer Brooks and Ed Michalek assured Chavez the animal would go to a good home. On July 4, “by the grace of God,” Chavez said, Kindness2Cats contacted her. “It was almost impossible to get a live person to answer.”Ĭhavez’s logical sense thought, “I already have two cats and we can’t travel back to Oregon with five kids and a new cat.”īut her heart decided, “If we can’t get help, the cat will go home with us.” *** “They either auto replied saying they aren’t taking any more animals because they are at full capacity, or they wanted me to call at a specific time and then wouldn’t answer or I got busy signals,” she said. But they provided a “huge list” of other places in Orange County that could possibly help.Ĭhavez contacted each of the approximately 20 organizations through email “any time I had the chance” between theme park fun, she said. The first one she contacted told her they only spayed, neutered and released cats. “She went crazy and devoured it.”Ĭhavez then looked up cat rescue organizations. In the meantime, Chavez went to Target and bought kibble and wet food, she said. “I told my husband that we need to get her to a safe place.” When the cat tried to follow the family into their hotel room on their second night, Chavez said she burst into tears. A real stray is apprehensive, but I could tell at one point she had a family because she was super gentle - meowing, rolling over, rubbing against our legs and letting us pick her up. “I kept badgering workers trying to piece together the story. “But this didn’t sit right with me,” Chavez said. The cat was a stray and no one could catch her. The cat was fine and being cared for by hotel guests who fed her eggs off the breakfast buffet. The cat lived at a trailer park next door. ![]() “She was panting because it was so hot.”Ĭhavez gave the cat water and inquired with hotel staff about the curious creature. ![]() After arriving July 1 for their week-long vacation, the tribe of cat lovers noticed a paper plate on the ground at the Anaheim hotel they were staying at with remnants of dried cat food and then spied a cat “hunkered down, laying on her side near the air-conditioning unit,” Mercedes Chavez said. ![]()
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