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Indie, the girl from the dumpster
Indie lived on a main road; a highway that enters from a constantly changing rural area and traverses the back end of the integrating landscape of our suburb. There it continues on through the now industrial area of road edge modern commercial enterprises built of smoky glass and created with Australian native bush gardens in an attempt to blend into the ecology, a pretence of sorts that is not displeasing but is still rather unsettling.
Not so many years ago, this road was lined with scattered paddocks of scrub and vacant land. There was still evidence of the first settlers of ethnic origins, the small hold farmers eking out a living, the scattered farmhouse that had seen better days. I have witnessed the remnants of this changing history: an elderly woman dressed in black as the older Italian women did bent over a small parcel of land where she was tending vegetables. A primitive shelter existing on the land. Behind her, not many metres away, just like the setting of a stage rose the industrial buildings, both a painting and a snapshot joining past and future and many times I had wished I could have recorded this visual but regrettably I never did. All too soon it was gone.
We assume Indie was born into this landscape She was part of a small colony, a sister, her sister's babies, her own and the males who became fathers, other females of course. They eked out an existence in the dumpsters, scrounging for food, no doubt there were mice and rats and the odd human leaving food for them. Some would have died from disease or on the road or as newborns that could not be sustained by their mothers on diets that were inadequate or on the cold winter nights. By the time Indie came to the notice of one of our members some of the cats had started disappearing. All of Indie's babies died except for one little male. At seven weeks both he and her sister had gone missing and that's when Indie was hastily removed and taken to our vet. She was pregnant again but being early it was decided to abort. Indie is currently being fostered and is hopeful of a home of her own. Please check out her profile on cats for adoption: https://www.petrescue.com.au/listings/1053530