Little Lucy’s journey has sure been an eventful one! She was pulled from the city pound in late November, fostered by my friend Sandy until she got over her URI, then fostered by me, then fostered by a great guy in my building named Sam, and then back to me when Sam went out of town.
Lucy looking deceptively calm.
There was a ton of anxiety that came with welcoming the young and rambunctious Lucy back into our home. For starters, I’m pregnant. Second, our own dog Ella has a deadly infection we are in the midst of aggressively treating. And most complicated of all, she doesn’t get along with our two senior cats. But after a few days of “crate and rotate,” our declawed cat Kitty let Lucy know her place in the house! She still gets her butt kicked by the Bug, though, and has the scars on her nose to prove it. The good news is that we are confident that she will not eat them, only chase and annoy them. Phew!
The best thing that came out of taking Lucy back is that I really got to know her and love her and thanks to Facebook, found her an amazing home with a childhood friend of mine who lives in Georgia.
Lucy was supposed to fly down to Georgia last Sunday with the non-profit, Pilots-n-Paws, but the plane on the first leg of her trip had engine problems and never took off from the tarmac in New Jersey. Pilots-n-Paws meant well, but especially in the dead of winter, it was a risk, and the longer Lucy stays with us, the more she is feeling like she is home, and she is not.
Shortly after last week’s failed flight I booked Lucy a ticket on the new airline, Pet Airways. Lucy will leave New York en route to Atlanta, Georgia, this Saturday — and for those of you that don’t know, Lucy won’t be flying in cargo, but in the cabin, with a stewardess and all!
Here are a couple of pictures from Lucy’s non-eventful trip with Pilots-n-Paws…
Watching her plane land.
Boarding the plane that never took off.