How Love Found a Woman Three Times, in the Form of a Cat
How Love Found a Woman Three Times, in the Form of a Cat May 2, 2025 Guest Contributor Elizabeth Haag This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here . Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog ! There’s a thread that runs through my life, woven not with logic nor timelines, but with love. Quiet, persistent, arriving just when I needed it. Sometimes in a human voice. Sometimes in the warmth of a body pressed close. And three times, unmistakably, in the form of a cat. I was 10 when I lost my little brother to leukemia. The house grew quieter, heavier. I didn’t have the words for the sadness—still don’t—but I remember the silence, the ache of it. Two years later, when I was 12, TJ came into my life. He wasn’t loud nor demanding. He just was. Sleeping beside me, walking when I walked, curling around my grief like he somehow understood it. Once, he went missing. I found him across a big pasture, and we ran ...
