During a relatively calm discussion about Christmas and all that day might offer, Viola and Quint promised not to outdo each other with greenery nibbles . . . this year. Next year, who knows?

Waiting for Mom and Dad to get home from work, the discussion allegedly included the following topics:

• should tattling commence on Tessa who barfed in the crinkle paper box and tried to bury it.
• the fact that someone whose name begins with the letter T knocked over Mom’s pheasant ceramics on the forbidden boo-fay.
• also, someone with long tall legs and an orange tail might have peed over the edge of a tall-sided litter box.
• a nubbin-tailed cat negotiated whether to confess it was her who left a poop ball on Mom’s computer chair last week.
• lastly, whether or not Mom should pull out the old magical Christmas Eve adoption story as per tradition.

Guess the winner.

This Christmas Eve memory has become a Colehaus family tradition here and we hope you’ll enjoy reading it, too. Before we dive in, let us wish you all a very Merry Christmas tomorrow. May this time be special and memorable to you and your families, full of happiness, joy and the wonder of the season.

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 baby 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 up for adoption 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 day. And the senior cats brought to the event found their forever families too. Every one of them. These forever families, they weren’t your average “Hey, we’re at Petco and since we’re buying dog food anyway, let’s go crazy and adopt a kitten for Christmas as well” kind of shoppers but a long 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 cats and kittens 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 over the past year. Have a magical Christmas.
X O X O

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2024 – No post
2023 – No post
2022 – No post
2021 – As if by Magic and a Christmas Eve Story
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