Reba, the purebred Himalayan cat, only has a few hours left to push through to the next round to become America鈥檚 Favorite Pet.
Her owner, Elaine Gross, said she never expected her cat would get this far, seeing as the competition is U.S.-based, but support has been rolling in for the 11-year-old 鈥渁ngel.鈥�
Gross first got Reba at six weeks and said she鈥檚 struggled with health issues including colitis and tooth resorption which has resulted in plenty of vet visits and the extraction of all but four of her teeth.
鈥淪he just bounces back as if nothing ever happens,鈥� Gross said. 鈥淪he鈥檚 a little fighter.鈥�
When Gross saw the ad for the contest on Facebook, she figured she鈥檇 try her hand at it, but she wasn鈥檛 sure which of her two cats she should nominate.
鈥溾�業鈥檒l do little miss Reba,鈥欌�� she recalled herself thinking.
Gross completed the nomination back in November and by early January she learned her feline friend had been accepted.
鈥淚 thought, 鈥榃ow! Out of all those cats!鈥欌��
Now, she鈥檚 sitting purr-fectly in fourth with a shot at the semi-finals.
With $5,000 and the cover of popular cat magazine Catster up for grabs, Gross is hoping to squeeze last-minute support from the Okanagan Valley.
If Reba is victorious, Gross says there will be no frivolous spending of the cash prize.
鈥淚鈥檓 planning on buying her and her brother (cat) Quincy 鈥� he鈥檚 a ragdoll 鈥� a new scratching post,鈥� she said, noting the rest would go into a savings account for veterinary costs.
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