Coco Puffs

Life is full of choices my husband and I more or less decided to have a baby.  What I didn’t realize was really how many things that one choice affected.  I recently had to give away my cat Coco.  I loved Coco.  He was a gift from my husband for our first Halloween together.  I have been allergic to him since he got his adult fur.  I refused to give him up and I took as much allergy medication as to I could get my hands on to keep him.  Recently my daughter started showing signs of being allergic to him as well.  She started rubbing her eyes and sneezing every time he was near her.  We have another cat that we wouldn’t mind giving away, but sadly no one would take her but the pound (we just couldn’t do that no matter how bitchy she is) and no one is allergic to her so we really have no reason to get rid of her.  It hurt my heart to think Coco might be causing her as much pain as he caused me (its’ a lot).  In that moment I knew I would do anything necessary to make sure she was happy and healthy, even give up my beloved Coco.  I had fought giving him away for almost 7 years and in that one moment 3 months after my daughter was born I knew he had to move.  It was one of the hardest choices I have ever had to make in my life.  I hand fed him because his mother abandoned him before he was ready to leave her.  He was my companion through the toughest and most exciting times of my life, and one tiny baby came along and somehow became more important than my beloved pet.  I knew I couldn’t just give him away to strangers, so it took me a while to decide what I was going to do.  I asked my mother in law what she thought I should do and to my surprise she said they would take him in and I would still have visitation with him.  My in-laws are very good to me.  I cried when I left him there and they told me to just think of it like he is at college, which made it a little bit easier to leave him.  I know in my heart that they will love him as much as I do.