Showing the attitude that only a Siamese cat can convey: Daffodil is Home for Life!
It's nice when you receive a summer flower any time of year, but most especially in in the depth of the dark days of November. Indeed, it was in November of 2025 , at the request of a veterinary clinic, that Home for Life took in this pretty girl, named Daffodil, who is leukemia positive.
A spayed female, friendly (although at first thought to be feral), Daffodil somehow found her way to a rural property, and tried to make herself at home. There are two barns on the property where Daffodil was found, and the woman who owned the farm and barns let the barn cats have one of them to live in. Many cats were abandoned at her place, and many cats found their way there and to the food she provided. A conscientious person, she made sure all the cats that lived on her property were spayed and neutered. When she spotted Daffodil, newly arrived, she live- trapped her and brought her into the veterinary clinic. The woman had thought Daffodil was the male Tom fathering all the kittens in the barn so was eager to get the cat altered. She also described the cat as "feral". The other problem was that Daffodil kept wandering up to the woman's house, where several dogs lived and one in particular, a concern because he was very aggressive to cats.
Well, the " Tom" turned out to be a she, and already spayed as revealed by her clipped ear and face tattoo. The veterinary clinic staff found the cat, whom they called Daffodil,to be social and friendly, and they estimated her age at between 3 and 5 years. They also found that she was leukemia positive. Daffodil could not safely return to the farm to expose other cats and besides, with her wish to approach the house all the time, it was only a matter of time before one of the dogs would attack and hurt her. So she stayed at the vet clinic while they tried to place her and finally reached out to Home for Life.
. Friendly and social, a striking Siamese mix with calico points, it is evident that Daffodil was once a pet who was forsaken or lost and never located. She was also likely swept up in a TNR project after she was abandoned, then spayed and marked as such, but released again to try to survive. At some point, she became infected with the contagious leukemia virus, probably from another cat that had been released but never tested, and who was positive,exposing other cats he or she came into contact with. Through it all Daffodil did her best to survive and find a place to call home. She wasn't feral and knew the difference between barn life and living indoors as a pet. After her long search, and many close calls, Daffodil now has the home for life she was searching for with us.
Read more about Home for Life's care of feral and outdoor cats in our blog post "Coming in from the Cold".