08/14/2026
Happy Forever Friday! This week we have an update on a kitty that was with us for quite a while as a scared and nervous older kitten. She was feral when she came in in August, and spent a while getting used to people and human interaction, and found her forever home in May! Read below for a wonderful update on her:
“I wanted to provide y’all with an update on Bugsy. We’ve had Bugsy for 2.5 months now and we’re happy to report she is a huge goofball. She spent her first couple weeks observing from afar and bolting out of sight the second anything moved. As she’s slowly gotten acquainted with her new home, she’s made daily measurable progress getting comfortable and shown us more and more of her odd little overstimulated self. She blinks a lot. She’s twitchy. Her hiss is very weak, we didn’t realize the first couple times she hissed at us (getting stronger now). She used to regularly give herself the hiccups. She is very curious, and also has a very healthy “nope” reflex. It doesn’t quite read as fear anymore, just a very firm self-preservation boundary with which she is always at odds. When she catches our other cat sniffing her, she hisses and skedaddles, then 10 seconds later is herself trying to sniff our other cat. She bops her head back and forth and up and down, curiosity fighting the nerves. She is rather long, and when she creeps she has the proportions of a dachshund. She is not very graceful, often thwacking and skidding into things. Bugsy is very playful, though it took about a month to teach/coax her to play and she still sometimes catches herself having a little too much fun and reels herself back in. She makes weird little underwater alien noises without opening her mouth. She has started to trill at us regularly during and after play, and she really leaps for the toy now. As her walls have come down her little quirks have started to mellow, though it doesn’t seem they’ll ever fully disappear (we hope). She spies on us and sometimes comes pretty close to observe, but she’s much more comfortable with our other cat than with humans. She’ll step on my leg with her front paws if I coax her up with a Churu. I pet her during Churu time every few weeks to test the waters, she tolerates it but certainly doesn’t enjoy it yet.
We’ve kept her name- our older black cat’s nickname is Bug, a big part of why we went to meet Bugsy in the first place, and who are we to question the ways of the CDS (Cat Distribution System). Plus… it’s apt. We call her Little Bug, Goob/Gooby (as in Goober), and Spook/Spooky. We’re very proud of how much she’s opened up and how she pushes herself every day. It’s been such a joy pulling her out of her shell and we’re very grateful she’s letting us get to know her :)
Thank you all for our little weirdo!”
Thank YOU for adopting her, and for the beautifully written update!
