By Liezelle Soriano
MANILA — Former senator Leila De Lima said that she wanted to adopt the cats saying the feline animals became her company while in her detention cell for almost seven years.
“I do physical chores in my compound, I feed the cats, I feed the chickens. I talked to the cats and they became so attached to me and that’s why I miss them so much,” De Lima said.
De Lima said that she will only adopt her “five favorite cats.”
“Even now, as I think about them I am so saddened. I cannot bring them all,” she said. “If only I could bring them all I could, but so it is not possible for me.”
De Lima earlier said that there was still one cat she wanted to bring home.
“Last night, I was actually, my tears were falling when I was thinking about them because mayroon akong 5 na isinama, pinalabas ko na. Mayroon pa atang isa, hindi pa siya nahuhuli. Ayaw pa pahuli,” the former justice secretary said.
In February 2021, De Lima shared that her source of “joy and delight” are her cats.
“What a delightful sight? In an almost perfect horizontal line formation, my cats (adopted stray cats) welcomed my return here at the detention quarters last Friday, Feb. 12, from my 24-hour medical furlough. All of them with a weary yet accusing stare, as if saying ‘where the hell have you been?’ They obviously missed me,” she said in a Facebook post.
“I had to immediately feed them as most of them had a famished appearance,” De Lima added.
The former senator is out in bail.
(AI/MNM)
