Bella and Hadid stood quietly by the door of their cage. Both were black as night, with glow in the dark green eyes. They’d spent half an hour in one of the rooms, with a family of four. That was hours ago.
Bella quietly meowed at me, as if to ask, “Where did the people go?”
“Ah, Bella.” I opened the cage and scratched her ears. Hadid took advantage of the door being open, and suckered me into scratching his ears. “Brother and sister. Bonded. You make a great pair of kitties.”
I kept scratching their ears a bit more. They were in for another long night, when their hopes of going home with a new family soared, and they did everything they could to show how good they were, and how they would be sterling additions to the family.
Only to end up spending another night in their cage at Animal Control.
“You know, don’t you?” I scratched Bella’s cheek, whiskers and all, “They’re not coming back.”
They knew. Hadid quietly slipped to the back of the cage, walked around in circles, and settled on the blanket. I could see he was heartbroken again. Bella reached for my hand, to pull it back every time I tried to leave.
It was so hard to see them go through heartbreak each day. “I’ll keep praying the perfect family for you shows up, OK?”
Bella nodded, then slowly wandered to the back of the cage, and curled up with Hadid.
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