Charlie is still struggling to find a new home (Picture: Masons)
Posted on 12/19/2012 10:35:55 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
Look, it’s Charlie Cat-lin!
With a tiny black moustache, sticking-up hair and a comedic, pigeon-toed stance, this moggy’s a copycat for slapstick legend Charlie Chaplin.
But, despite her film star looks, Charlie, seven, is struggling to find a home.
Charlie is still struggling to find a new home (Picture: Masons)
Charlie has been at the Wood Green animal centre, in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, since July, but visitors seem to prefer tabbies or ginger cats.
Staff nicknamed her ‘the little fuzzy tramp’ because her sticky-up hair reminding them of Chaplin’s character in 1915 film The Tramp.
The film star feline had been covered in lesions all over her shoulders and back when she first came to the animal centre, but is ‘much better’ now.
Spot the difference: The real Charlie Chaplin (Picture: Rex)
Charlie’s great with children and would love a family, said carer Christina Lines.
‘She is really friendly and great with children and she would make a lovely addition to someone’s family,’ she said.
‘Everyone wants a perfect-looking cat like ones you see on the adverts. Black and white and all black cats are the hardest to rehome.
‘If Charlie was a tabby or ginger I could have rehomed her ten times by now.’
Nice tie. LOL
AWWWWWWWWWWWWW!Merry Grump! Darling!
She’s my hero.
Ii've heard that black cats are hard to get adopted out. Even harder to get atopted out are tortoiseshells, or so I've been told by a couple of rescuers.
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - in memory of better times.
from India, Barney and Miss Beazly
Amen, my FRiend. What a beautiful fur-family.
Hadn’t heard that about torties. Personally, I think they’re beautiful. Black cats too.
The little mama cat was being touted on Craigslist as an "ugly cat who needs love." Well, she's a tortie, she's sweet, she is an excellent mama cat, and her daughters are delightful.
LOL...that is fantastic.
Yo, idiot reporter. Pigeon toed is the other way...inward. Charlie is anti-pigeon toed.
Maybe he can’t find a home because people mistake him for Adolf Kitler?
I have a short-haired tortie I rescued from my back yard; we named her Patch.
She was pregnant at the time we took her in (we had her spayed as soon as the kittens were weaned), and one of the kittens in the litter was a tortoiseshell tabby. We decided to keep her; my wife named her Monkey Face.
Both are quite affectionate, although in Monkey’s case it’s mostly when the mood strikes her. She doesn’t really care to be held, although if she’s getting sleepy she will occasionally seek out a lap to sleep in.
How can no one want to adopt him? Look at his eyes! What a cute little fur ball!
I heard about black cats being unadoptable. My vet told me she knows one in a no kill shelter that’s been there for 7 years waiting. I wish my apartment would let me have more than one cat, I would love to adopt another one.
It breaks my heart so many kittehs need homes and I can’t help....
I hear you. If my apartment didn’t have a limit I’d be the crazy cat guy.
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