Depawsit Slip (Vanessa Abbot Cat Protection League Cozy Mystery Series Book 1) by Nancy C. Davis

Author:Nancy C. Davis [Davis, Nancy C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Amateur Sleuth, cats, cozy mystery, woman sleuth, mysteries, detective, cat
Publisher: cat cozy mystery - C Collins Publishing
Published: 2015-05-28T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Mandy O’Leary, the vet, squatted in the corner of the Opportunity Shop. Latex gloves covered her hands, and her medical bag lay open at her side. Vanessa watched over her shoulder. Mandy rubbed a tabby kitten all over.

“I don’t feel any broken bones,” she said. “She’s probably just very dehydrated.”

“And traumatized,” Vanessa added.

Mandy nodded. “And there’s no treatment I can give her that’s as good as your tender loving care, Vanessa.” She stood up and pulled off her gloves. “If it’s all right with you, I’ll leave her here.”

“You know it’s all right with me,” Vanessa replied. “I’m always happy to take another cat, just as long as you’re certain no one else will claim her as her owner.”

Mandy grimaced. “Not likely. You know that parking place along the highway is a notorious dumping ground for unwanted animals. I can’t tell you how many kittens, chickens and puppies I’ve found there. I even found a dead parrot there.”

Vanessa shook her head. “I don’t understand people at all.”

Mandy packed up her medical bag. “You understand them a lot better than most, I’d say. Anyway, she’s yours now. Do what you usually do with them, and she’ll be fine. You’re the best medicine she can get right now.”

Vanessa nodded and showed Mandy out. Then she went back to the bundle of blankets in the corner. The kitten glared at her.

“That’s okay,” Vanessa told her. “I know you’re upset right now, but you’ll settle in here and we’ll be best friends. You’ll see. If you don’t believe me, you can ask AngelPie, or Foxle. They went through the same thing when they were your age, and look at them now.”

“I suppose you want to eat breakfast,” she muttered. “What would you like? Eggs on toast? What about oatmeal? No, I know. You’d like a nice big stack of blueberry pancakes. Well, I think we can fix you up.” She was joking of course.

She bent down and took a can out of the cupboard. Flossy jumped up on the counter and meowed loudly.

“This isn’t for you, Flossy,” Vanessa told her. “Don’t be a pig. You get your lunch with the rest of the cats at eleven o’clock. This is for our new friend, so you keep your paws off of it. Now, what will we call you?”

The kitten wrinkled her nose, but she never took her green eyes off Vanessa.

“How about Galapagos?” Vanessa asked. “Or what about Galilee? No, that’s too serious. You want a happy name, something you can grow into. I’ve got it. How about Aurora? Yes, that’s perfect, I think. Aurora. It’s a little too grown-up for you right now, but that will change and you’ll be happy you don’t have a silly little name like Fluffy or Frisky.”

She ambled over to the blankets and bent down. She extended her hand toward the kitten, but the little creature bared her fangs and hissed. She didn’t move any other part of her body. Vanessa pulled her hand back.

“That’s all right,” she went on.

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