12/24/2021 – As if by Magic and a Christmas Eve Story

About a week ago, a certain sad, floofy, ginger girl was lamenting over a lost YeoWWW nanner. To be perfectly honest, it wasn’t lost; Mom threw it away. NOW WAIT! Don’t click away just yet! Let Mom explain!

In her defense, Mom says, “This YeoWWW nanner was only a nanner in that it was once full and round and stuffed full of the best nip on the planet, was once bright yellow, and long, long ago all the cats loved it. What I tossed out was something flat as a dime, as yellow as something dragged behind a car, not for a mile but for miles over mucky-brown jagged boulders for five years, had ragged edges and as for fresh? That went out the window half a decade ago after Pia chewed a third hole through the sad, sorry, soggy thing.”

But it was MY sad, sorry, soggy nanner, Mom.

One of Santa’s helpers must have picked up on that lament; they’re very good at such things, because just the other day, an envelope came and inside was a freshly picked YeoWWW nanner. (Actually, there are two but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.)

We know who that belongs to, right? Before she rips it out of our hands and we hand it over, let’s say Merry Christmas, Pia, and the rest of you cats when your sister Pia is good and done with it. And THANK YOU, Santa’s helper!

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A little story for Christmas Eve, as posted per Colehaus Cats tradition:

A little rhyme runs through our heads at this time of year, every year:

We wish we may,
we wish we might,
help find homes for all this night.

And one year, we saw it happen.

Way back in December of 2013, while interviewing potential Niblet forever families at our local Petco, a sweet, jolly man sat upon a chair seemingly meant for him and someone handed him a kitten, one of a very large group of kittens our area had that year.

And then, something magical happened.

That kitten found a forever home that day. And the next kitten the jolly man held did too. And the next. And so on and so on throughout the entire day. And then, the senior cats brought to the event found their forever families, too. These forever families, they weren’t your average Petco shoppers, stopping by for a bag of litter or dog food, but a whole string of very vetted families who came in, independently of one another, to see cats and kittens they had been following online through the shelter and through word of mouth, and don’t you know, every one of those families fell in love with every one of those cats and kittens and each found the best of homes that day.

*happy sigh*

May we all open our hearts and homes to those who need love, not just for a day but for all of forever.

Thank you for reading us today and over the past year. Thank you, dear angels, who have written to us and sent us cards and gifts. May the holiday spirit continue to fill you with wonder and joy. From us and all the Colehaus Cats – Tessa, Pia, Quint, Olivia, and niblet Viola, we’re wishing you a truly magical Christmas.

X O X O

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2020 – No post
2019 – No post
2018 – No post
2017 – No post
2016 – No post
2015 – No post
2014 – Do You Hear What I Hear?
2013 – Visitors
2012 – Believe