Stray Hearts by Jane Graves

Author:Jane Graves [Graves, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary
Publisher: Jane Graves
Published: 2013-08-12T04:00:00+00:00

“You got a dozen what?”

Matt had caught the last few seconds of the phone conversation Kay had been carrying on at the reception desk at the shelter, the umpteenth one she’d made in the past few weeks, and he wasn’t sure he liked what he had heard. She spun around from the phone with a big smile.

‘‘Kitty- Tees.”

Matt grimaced. “What in the world is a Kitty-Tee?”

Kay rolled her eyes. “Don’t you keep up? They’re what the well-dressed cat is wearing this season, of course. They’re from Pet Palace. They come in long-sleeved, short-sleeved, small, medium and large, and they’re fifty- fifty poly-cotton so they won’t shrink up to nothing in the dryer. They’re sending over three lime green, three electric blue—”

“Wait a minute! You seem to be telling me you’re going to dress the cats up in T-shirts. Is that right?”

Kay smiled dreamily. “Won’t they just be the cutest things?”

Good God, he’d created a monster. For the past couple of weeks Kay had been like a human vacuum cleaner run amok, sucking up all the pet-related items she could get her hands on. Up to now he’d approved wholeheartedly. But cats wearing T-shirts?

“The Super Scoop was great,” he told her. “And the Tasty Cat. And the grooming brushes and the Kitty Yum-Yams—”

“And the Port-a-Pets. Don’t forget those.”

“They’re great, Kay. Really. I’m glad you found them. I’m glad you found them for free. But just because something’s free doesn’t mean we ought to take it. Cats in T-shirts—”

“Oh, will you hush a minute? I swear your sense of humor is melting away before my very eyes.” Kay pointed toward the Cat Room. “Look. You’ve got two cats back there who’ve had part of their coats clipped— one because of a skin problem and the other because of mats. Nobody will look at them right now, even though their hair will eventually grow back in and they’ll be good as new. But don’t you think if I put them in cute little T-shirts it’ll cover up the problem until someone can get to know them a little? They might find out there’s a potential pet under those bad haircuts.”

Matt was astonished, and not just because of the irony of a dog shaver catering to cats with raggedy coats. This seemed to be a step above basic necessities. After spending forty hours at the shelter, had her feelings changed? Was Kay actually going out of her way to help a few unfortunate animals find a decent home?

“After all,” Kay added, “that’s the point, isn’t it? Moving some of these creatures out of here before the next ones show up?”

Matt felt a flush of disappointment. Kay saw the shelter as a conveyor belt moving a product through a warehouse. He realized now that just because she’d grown less fearful of the animals didn’t mean she’d suddenly started loving them. She was scrounging donations only because it beat cleaning cat boxes. It was nothing more than a game to her, a fun little exercise in

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