Posted on 10/09/2021 5:27:54 AM PDT by dynachrome
A 19-year-old cat named Gus was brought into a North Carolina shelter recently, and the Humane Society of Catawba County’s executive director, Jane Bowers, said his owner was “heartbroken.”
Bowers told Daily Paws they were forced to surrender him because of unforeseen circumstances, the website reported Thursday.
At the shelter, Gus received a screening that showed he was enjoying good health.
However, even with the organization’s funds for extra health care and help from another location, Bowers said there was still concern about him having to spend the rest of his life in a shelter.
But it was not long after Gus arrived that the director got a call from a family searching for a pet to be a companion for their elderly mother, and they even requested a senior cat. The family told Bowers their 101-year-old mother, Penny, recently lost her own cat, and although she had a stuffed one to hold, she was unhappy with a pet that could not purr.
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Thanks for posting.
It’s always nice to read some good news too.
I like old people and cats... Two of my favorite things, and not just because I’m old and own a cat.
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What a beautiful story.
We adopted a senior dog many years ago, and it was the best decision we ever made. Yes, our time with him was a little shorter, but he was the most wonderful addition to our family. Smartest dog, too. His name was Albert, and he had such amazing spatial intelligence I once commented to him, “Well, you ARE a regular old Einstein!”
He reacted with such shock, and amazement, it was almost as if he was thinking, “These humans know my other name!”
His former owners stated at the shelter, “We just didn’t want him anymore...”
Their loss, our gain.
so beautiful
thank you for posting
That’s sweet. My great-aunt used to adopt old dogs because she didn’t want to stick her family with a dog when she died. She outlived several dogs; we think she was over 100, but she was very cagey.
“We adopted a senior dog many years ago, and it was the best decision we ever made.”
Albert! :)
We did the same with a pair of Lady Basset Hounds. A woman that used to work for me, went on to become a Vet Tech, and I used the vet clinic where she worked. She called one day to tell me that one of their customers died unexpectedly, and would I be interested in adopting her two older dogs. Belle and Pearl were both about 11 years old at the time.
They were ‘City Dogs’ so being allowed to wander off-leash was probably their favorite part of moving to my farm. Our Beagle just loved ‘his girls’ so much!
We lost them both within 3 years, though. Pearl had lymphoma and Belle ended up with a bad disc which paralyzed her.
I like to think that the last few years of their lives, being allowed to ‘just be dogs’ were their happiest.
“We just didn’t want him anymore...”
That’s terrible! I can’t even imagine treating a pet that way. Those people are missing something in their genetic makeup.
What a beautiful picture!
My sister just recently found a near dead cat on her front porch. It was starving to death. It could hardly raise its head. She took it in and revived it with food and water. A few days later they took it to the vet and it needed a tooth removed and tick pulled out of its ear but was basically OK. The vet said it was about 10-11 years old. And they found out he’s deaf but they named him Thomas and now he’s a terrific companion for my BIL who has Lewey Body disease.
Bassett hounds are the sweetest, most gentle pups. Belle and Pearl sounded wonderful.
My Albert was a doberman rottweiler mix, so imagine — blocky rottweiler chest on thin little doberman legs, and the most perfect Doberman wedge head, with soft flop ears.
We always joked that if he had a celebrity twin, it would have been David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane.
Very polite, dapper and gentle. He was adorable.
(Compared to his predecessor, our rottweiler Ursa who was a Texas prom queen, she was such a prissy little lady she hated getting her feet wet and had to be carried to her potty spot when the grass was wet. She topped out at 75lbs...)
My beautiful daughter fosters cats. Princess was 15 years old when she got her. Since no one wanted to adopt her my daughter did. Princess is a lovely cat and gets along well with another senior cat she has adopted and the one she had since he was a kitten. My grandchildren have fur, paws and whiskers.
Our first two kitties are waiting for us on the “other side”. Power Puff, our sweet Calico, developed feline leukemia-she was 15 when she passed, and our sweet Peanut, a grey tabby, had to be put down , she was 17.
Now we have Coco and Charlie, Coco is a 7yr old ginger girl and Charlie, the youngster, is a 2yr old- I’m not sure WHAT he is, 17lbs. of dark grey, striped mischief.
Our lives wouldn’t be the same without them!😺❤️
We adopted our Bassett/PBGV mix from a no kill shelter in the Catskills. The lady who established the place was a self-described Jewish girl from Brooklyn. When she was a newlywed, she was staying in a little community with her toddler son while their house was being built.
The old lady next door to her died and her relatives came and emptied the house and left her old Golden Retriever behind. The shelter lady didn’t think much of it, never having a pet herself, and it was summertime and the dog was being fed by the neighbors. The dog and her son were very friendly.
One day, her son disappears. The community went looking for him to no avail. Then the troopers were brought in. Still no sign of the toddler. Someone finally asks “where’s the dog”? Everyone went back out again, this time calling the dog’s name. Eventually they heard faint barking and followed it.
The old dog was spotted, her body pinning the baby’s body against a tree. He was fast asleep. When they picked him up, the dog collapsed with exhaustion. Just a few feet away was a steep drop into a crop of rocks.
That day the mother made it her mission to save old unwanted animals. She adopted the dog and started her shelter. It’s also where NYC police horses are retired.
So awesome! Faith in Humanity - RESTORED! :)
Both look good for their ages
What a happy story! (For a change.)
Totally agree with you. Some people shouldn’t be allowed to have pets.
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