
Strays
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Alcoholic and depressed, Michael King lives on the streets of Portland, Oregon, and sleeps in a UPS loading bay. One raining night, he stumbles upon a hurt, starving, scruffy cat cowering beneath a café table and takes her in. He names her Tabor, nurses her back to health, and she becomes something of a celebrity in Southeast Portland. When winter comes, they travel from Oregon to the beaches of California to the high plains of Montana, surviving blizzards, bears, angry steers, and rainstorms.
Along the way, people are drawn to the spirited, beautiful cat and are moved to help Michael, who cuts a striking figure with Tabor riding high on his backpack or walking on a leash. Tabor comforts Michael when he's down, giving him someone to love and care for, and inspiring him to get sober and to come to terms with his past family traumas and grief over the death of his life partner.
As they make their way along the West Coast, the pair become inseparable, healing the scars of each other's troubled pasts. When Michael takes Tabor to a veterinarian in Montana, he discovers that Tabor has an identification chip and an owner in Portland who has never given up hope of finding his beloved cat. Michael is faced with the difficult choice of keeping Tabor or returning her to her rightful owner?and, once again, facing the streets alone.
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- Intro
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Epigraph
- Chapter 1: Portland, Oregon: Round Midnight
- Chapter 2: Stray Cat Blues
- Chapter 3: Gimme Shelter
- Chapter 4: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
- Chapter 5: Born to Run
- Chapter 6: On the Road Again
- Chapter 7: Oregon to California: Riders on the Storm
- Chapter 8: Backwoods Oregon: Memory Motel
- Chapter 9: Baby Please Come Home
- Chapter 10: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
- Chapter 11: California: Ride into the Sun
- Chapter 12: King City: Sweetheart of the Rodeo
- Chapter 13: Bad Moon Rising
- Chapter 14: Ventura, California: Good Vibrations
- Chapter 15: The Stars Are Out Tonight
- Chapter 16: Yosemite: Walk on the Wild Side
- Chapter 17: Big Sky Country: Devils & Dust
- Chapter 18: Black Magic Woman
- Chapter 19: Dillon, Montana: Holy Cow
- Chapter 20: Portland: A Summer Storm and Full Moon
- Chapter 21: Helena, Montana: Mysteries of a Feline Heart
- Chapter 22: Astral Weeks
- Chapter 23: The Most Beautiful Girl
- Chapter 24: The Cat Was a Rainbow in a Dark World
- Chapter 25: The Long and Winding Road
- Chapter 26: Portland Again: Sweet Emotion
- Chapter 27: Seven Steps to Heaven
- Afterword
- Author's Note: Rescue-Don't Buy
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
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