Zember’s human is a dear friend of mine who has had to stay in a clinic for a longer time, and so Zemi* has been living with me for about half a year and will stay for two more weeks until her human will take her back. Zember was found by the mentioned friend (who lived at my place at the time) at perhaps half a year’s age in December five years ago (German “Dezember”, and now you know how what inspired her name). She was feral, starving, soaked wet, cold, traumatized (her tail was broken and necrotized, had to be amputated partially; it is possible that she had been tortured, but perhaps it was just a loop or something which had caught her). And she gave both my cats a hard time then (both my cats were still alive then). Oh, and not only the cats but also both humans suffered quite a lot of surprise attacks by her, there was blood and there were shards, and I had never before heard a cat ROAR … once she even gave me a black eye. Then my big tomcat Plietsch (RIP) impregnated her (I saw a four-legged animal walk out of my garage
The scars she gave me I carry with pride and love. We have tamed each other.