Felicity was rescued from a building site, where she was living as a feral cat, by Celia Hammond. She had a severely damaged left back leg which was infected and ‘fly-blown’. She was adopted by her staff and there followed a long and serious operation to remove the whole leg. It was a long and painful road and has left felicity nervous of people and terrified of women wearing white (probably because of the vetinary nurses who treated her and who she thinks caused her pain).
It took a lot of work and many visits to the vet but, thankfully, she survived and is about the same age as the others. She is a delightful, intelligent cat who gets about as well as any four legged feline. The other cats look out for her and Sam, in particular, will go upstairs to his daddy to tell him that Felicity is hungry or wants to go out (one thing she can’t really do is climb the stairs).
She loves her garden and has her ‘special’ shady spots where she will sit and watch. Indoors she has a small cat bed in a secluded place where she can watch what is going on whilst feeling safe. She has always been very nervous of people but is gradually coming round and is now one very nosy cat who loves to sit and watch what her staff are doing.
She loves Oliver and washes between his ears for him and he rubs his nose on her and talks to her. As she has got older and more mellowed she now comes running up the garden when her name is called and now likes to stretch out, on a cold winter night, in front of the gas fire and have that beautiful coat combed. Amazingly, although she is still nervous, she will start to purr and stretch out, almost upside down, to have her underside combed and will keep moving to make sure you don’t miss a bit.
Felicity will eat anything and tends to wait in turn until the others have eaten. Oliver being Oliver rarely leaves anything on the plate so felicity’s daddy opens a new tin of something nice, especially for her, when the others are gone.
Unlike the other cats she does not wear a collar because she was older when adopted and always found a collar distressing. She is a most delightful and loving little cat and has adapted remarkable well to her tripedic state.
One thing she doesn’t like is her monthly FrontLine squirt. She says that ladies who dine do not have fleas.
