Lost Cat Search Leads Grieving Owner To Shelter Kitten Begging To Be Chosen

Split image showing a relaxed black-and-white cat lying across a person’s lap on the left and the same cat inside a shelter cage on the right.

Pam Michael

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I met Mavrin, pronounced Marvin — if Brett Favre can do it, so can I — while I was searching for my missing black and white cat, Max.

Black-and-white cat walking across light snow with patches of grass visible, looking toward the camera.

Pam Michael

Maxie had disappeared three weeks earlier, and I was at the shelter at least every other day looking for him. Each time I couldn’t find him, I left sobbing.

During one visit, I saw a black and white cat across the room and zoomed over. It wasn’t Max. Instead, it was a black and white kitten with odd eyes: his left eye was blue, and his right eye was gold.

He pawed at me through the bars of the cage, then flopped over and stuck his head into the water dish sitting there. He got up, shook his head, sprayed me with water drops, and then went right back to pawing at me.

Black-and-white cat inside a shelter cage, standing behind metal bars with one cloudy eye visible.

Pam Michael

He had huge paws for an estimated three-month-old kitten, and I have always been partial to my big boy kitties. He still had several days left on his hold, but I started going back every day to see him.

I named him Marvin, after Marvin the Martian. He was an odd little fellow, to quote Bugs Bunny.

A person lounges on a couch while a black-and-white cat lies belly-up across their legs as the person pets it.

Pam Michael

Once he was cleared for adoption, I took my husband to the shelter to meet him. Mavrin went home with us that day.

We had him for almost 15 years, until he crossed the Rainbow Bridge 20 months ago. His “sister,” our resident Russian Blue girl, was less than impressed and wanted pretty much nothing to do with him for the nine years they spent together.

Black-and-white cat lying across a person’s lap indoors, resting its head and stretching one paw outward.

Pam Michael

Mavrin ended up huge, weighing 17.2 pounds in his prime. His name was altered in spelling because my husband is a smartass.

I still miss him every day, even though we adopted two little Abyssinian girls about two months after Marvin passed to keep my work-from-home husband entertained.

Love you, Fuzz For Brains.


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