Pip was born between May and June of 2018, to what we can only assume was a feral cat family. He spent the first few months of his life somewhere around the area of Berlin, Maryland.  Then one day in late September Pip decided that he wanted to start looking for a home.

 

Pip showed up at the front door of a family in Berlin after a late-summer thunderstorm.  The family wasn’t home, but their grandmother was, so she started to feed little Pip. He was tiny, and dirty, and thought to be deaf. The family had a cat already, with its own set of health-problems, and the grandmother who was feeding Pip was moving across the country, so while they cared for Pip, he could not stay.

 

Laura Meadows, a junior at Stephen Decatur High School, without asking anyone in her own family, volunteered to take Pip in. There were four options at hand. Pip, who at this point had not even been named, could stay with Laura in North Ocean Pines, stay with Laura’s Dad in South Ocean Pines, go to Laura’s sister’s house in Ocean City, or be taken to the Humane Society.

 

When the Meadows family called the Humane Society to see if they could take Pip in, they said they were full, and could not accept him, so that option was out. Having Pip stay with Laura also did not prove ideal, as the three cats already in the home were NOT having it. Since the other Ocean Pines option included Laura’s grandfather, it was deemed unsafe, as Pip has a tendency of tripping people and that did not prove a viable plan to pair Pip with an 85 year old. So off to Ocean City he went!

 

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