I really hope you get Cici back, but before you involve the shelter, please be 100% sure that they will allow Cici to return to you if they go pick her up. The only thing worse than Cici staying with your co-worker would be her going back to the shelter and you never knowing what became of her. Good luck.
I really hope that you get her back and that everything works out for you here. 
Hi Jay,
Thank you so much! I have thought about it and weighed the pros and cons. I truly believe kitty is better off with me. I have the space, time and money to care for her, and i don’t have any trust left with the other person. I doubt she is in a situation to provide the care it needs if her skin condition needs addressing, i found out more for sure about the living situation recently, there are four adults and two children in a house the size of an apartment (no judgement there, some people are comfortable that way) but it still worries me for the cat, especially since i never met these people that are living there and supervising the cat with the toddler during the day. I feel like the only con is she will be upset and i don’t mind that at this point, like you all have said, life goes on. I will make sure to ask animal control questions first before “pulling the trigger” per se. i have true friends on stand by and my husband available to pick her up if for some reason she was taken back to the shelter instead of returned directly to me. But ultimately i am hoping she will be brought back directly to me. I feel good about this decision. I will do this Monday, because i will be home to provide my papers to animal control and she will be at work. There will still be someone at the house i think as I said someone watches her youngest during the day.
I'm confused. Is this not the case?
It is the case, that’s what we were told. I’m just hoping that’s the correct info is all i guess.
So we called and animal control basically said they wouldn’t do it because it seems like a “civil” matter, returning my “property” from someone else’s house...Fingers crossed that everything works out today for you and Cici.
At this point have called the shelter twice and no has has been available so i left a message.
They are definitely a kill shelter but it sounds like they will check the living conditions and won't remove her unless they're horrid or something. I doubt she will be removed at this point. I thought they would be allowed to remove her based on the adoption contract alone and then we could go get her from the shelter, who seems open to our situation but it doesn't look like that will happen. Looks like my only opportunity here is to get an attorney, which I've been advised by a public defender friend that if she has the texts to prove I gave her the cat I would definitely not get her back.
So I think at this point my battle is lost. Very upsetting.
