J0na

Next Friday will mark 3 months that little J0na (aka J0na Cat or J0na Quatre) has lived with Chuyit0 and me. It all started with a frantic phone message from J0nathan my neighbor saying he needed my help. He'd found a little sick kitten and needed my help caring for it. At first I was resistant and told him I couldn't take in another cat, that I'd planned to go back to eNYC and couldn't have a second cat to travel with me. But he asked if I could at least just help him and take the cat for a week.
The poor little guy had an eye infection and fleas and was crying frantically. I held him and he calmed down a bit. J. had taken him to the vet and he had antibiotics he'd need to be fed twice a day for 10 days. He'd also been treated with @dvantage so the fleas would be dying off.

For over a week, I kept him in the bathroom away from Chuyit0. I wanted to have Chuyit0 tested for Feline AIDS and I thought it was a good idea to keep them separated for awhile and gradually introduce them to each other. Chuyit0 tested negative and was given the vaccine which the vet said would take a week to become effective.

It was hard to keep them apart and before the end of the week wait, I started cracking the door open so they could sniff and paw at each other. Not a single hiss or growl which I thought was pretty amazing and a sign that he was meant to be with us. I gradually introduced him to the bedroom (putting Chuyit0 in the bathroom to sniff out the little guy's space) and the next day let him out in the rest of the apartment. Right away, the two started to play and chase each other around.
Since then it's been smooth sailing and it's been great to see Chuyit0 adopt J0na as his little buddy and have the little guy learn all kinds of things from Chuyit0. More than once I've been so grateful to have J0na around. I would think that he was put into my life to make me laugh and remember the good things about life.
And it turns out he was a peace offering. J. and I had dated last December and had a nasty breakup and had been on bad terms since. But J0na has brought us back together and we've been happily dating for a little over a month.

J0nathan is still missing and I'm starting to lose hope (@lejandro and J's girlfriend have both told me I need to accept the fact that he is dead.) But I hope that little J0na will be with me for many years and will be a happy memory of my time in Va11arta with a life full of J0nathans.