Are You Fereal?

(My family and I have gone to the Humane Society to see about adopting a cat we had been looking at on the Pet-Finder site, which purportedly claimed for her to be “loving, affectionate, and loves to be held.” When we get there we find the cat in a back room full of other cats, hiding in a shelf. She takes a swipe at me when I go to hold my hand out so she can smell me first.)

Me: *holding bleeding hand as I return to the front desk* “Excuse me, can you tell me about [Cat]? She’s hiding in a shelf in the back room and just swiped at me.”

Worker: “Oh, that’s just how she is.”

Me: “How she is?”

Worker: “Yeah, she came in as a feral, doesn’t really like to be touched.”

Me: “It said on Pet-Finder that she loves people, and to be held, and is affectionate?”

Worker: “Oh, yeah…” *shrugs*

(Needless to say we left without a cat.)