The saga of the loyal cat continues to tug at the heart in this classic by Dennis McCarthy – Daily News

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This column by Dennis McCarthy was originally printed on the November 7, 1996 issue of the Los Angeles Daily News.

Every once in a while a story comes along that makes you shake your head and smile — it gives you a feeling you can’t quite put your finger on, but you know it’s something special.

And that makes you shake your head and smile again.

There is this cat that lives in Sylmar who has to be the most faithful cat in the whole country today.

She makes Lassie and Rin Tin Tin look like a couple of creepy two-timers.

For nearly three years now—ever since the Northridge earthquake shook the valley—this cat has been waiting for its owners’ return to their red-marked apartment.

Every day, every night, rain or shine, just sitting there waiting-existing on the forearm of people in the neighborhood who shake their heads and smile whenever they pass by and see it.

People like Bill Marugo.

“If she’s loyal to whoever owns her, I think they should know she’s back, waiting for them to come home,” says Marujo, who theorizes that the cat probably panicked and ran away when the earthquake hit, only to come home days later to an empty apartment.

He admits it’s hard to find owners after this long, but after nearly three years of waiting, this cat has had any shot she can get.

who do you know People may still live in the valley, and read this newspaper.

“It hits you hard, just watching them sit there, waiting for them to come home, day in and day out,” says Marujo, who calls the cats his sweetheart.

Most cats roam. Not that, he says.

The apartment complex is located on Foothill Boulevard in Sylmar, and has not been touched since the windows were boarded up and chain link fencing put around it shortly after the earthquake.

“The people who live there moved away and never came back,” say promoters. “It is the only place left in Sylmar that was not repaired after the earthquake.”

Marugo, who lives downstairs from the building, says that about 10 days after the earthquake, he noticed the cat was sitting there in front of one of the apartments.

“My wife, Rose, and I used to drive by every day wondering what the cat was doing in this deserted place, day in and day out, without going anywhere,” he says.

“After a while, we noticed that food was being made available to her, so we learned that other people living in the neighborhood also started to notice her. We started feeding her too.”

Occasionally, Marugo notices some people trying to get the friendly black cat to go with them, but she never does.

Marugo even tried himself last month when the weather started getting cold at night and he was starting to feel a little lonely.

His wife, Rose, died six months ago, and after 15 years, he had to put his dog to sleep. Perhaps a lover can be a new companion.

“I brought her home one night, and she stayed about three hours,” he says, shaking his head. “But the first time I opened the screen door, it went like a bullet.

“I went down to the apartments the next morning. She was just sitting there, still waiting.”

Marrujo will not contact the Animal Regulatory Department. He’s afraid that if they come for the cat and it’s not adopted at the shelter, it will go to sleep.

Besides, he says, it is not a stray wandering the streets. She has an address, a home.

This cat did not escape. did the owners. All you do is wait for them to come home.

“You know, this cat has more courage and fortitude than any animal I’ve ever seen,” says Marugo on Wednesday, after stopping in the covered apartments to feed and spend time with his sweetheart.

“What has it been now, nearly three years since the earthquake, and it still won’t give up? Now that’s one loyal pet.”

Yes it is. Makes you shake your head and smile.

Update: Dennis McCarthy’s March 12, 1999 column reported that a reader of the initial 1996 column was able to rescue his lover and return the black cat to her home in Simi Valley. At that time, the reader/cat rescuer marked Sylmar’s apartment red to alert others that the cat was safe and loved.

Dennis McCarthy’s column is published on Sundays. He can be reached at [email protected].

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