As all our client’s know, I have been the office cat here for more than 7 years. I started life as a black cat; now I have some grey to my coat but I am as healthy as a kitten. I stay at the office all week and the attorneys alternate taking me home on weekends.

This summer my schedule has been disrupted by all of our hurricanes. But I am grateful that neither the office or the attorneys’ homes sustained any real damage. I have been one lucky cat; I worry about all the stray cats that weathered these conditions without shelter. And I know that some very pampered pets were badly harmed in areas of Florida hard hit by the storms.

This gives me a chance to remind you that it is very important to spay and neuter your animals. Plus please remember that cats are induced ovulators. What that means is that when girl and boy cats get together at a feeding place, and if they are not neutered or fixed, they will mate. I know, I was a product of just such a union. But I was lucky. Most kittens born in the wild die of disease, starvation or car injury.

There are a number of organizations which will help you with wild cats, with spaying and neutering your pets, or cats which you are feeding outside but you do not claim as your own. Call the West Pasco SPCA, PAWS, SPAY-NEUTER Clinic for information. Please don’t leave food outside because this encourage the overpopulation problem. I know its hard to see those hungry faces but there are other ways to be kind to those animals.

Why just the other day I invited some strays over to one of the attorney’s house for a visit and a meal while she was out of the house for a moment. Boy was she surprised!! But charity begins at home...her home.