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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“Those people...”
Prolly the same kind of people who go on a cruise - leaving their young kids at home provisioned with only a few boxes of cereal.
“Prolly the same kind of people who go on a cruise - leaving their young kids at home provisioned with only a few boxes of cereal.”
People do that? Scary.
Bad news day and overcome with too much when turning off the internet is the only solution but this truly made me smile.
If you want on or off this list, please let me know.
It takes a lot to make me get misty-eyed. Can’t blame this one on onions.
My heart is so full!
Nice story. Thank you for posting.
Thanks!
Tomorrow’s headline : Old cat trips old woman, both dead at bottom of stairs.
Thank you for the uplifting story. ♥️♥️♥️
Thanks for posting this, such a sweet story! And the author’s name makes it even more purrrfect!
❤
So glad you rescued him. What kind of a person gives up a family member?
Even worse, they gave him up after 7 years and their reasoning was, “We just didn’t want him anymore...”
He was the best dog in the world. I can’t imagine the thinking.
Still, their stupidity, our gain.
We were happier than anything to take him. He saved us.
My pleasure.
You’re welcome.
Hey Mermaid Girl. Great to hear of your amazing spatially intelligent cat, Albert.
Your post immediately called to mind T. S. Eliot’s poem, The Naming of Cats. Here’s a beautiful reading of that scrumptious delight to the ear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Di2LLY45g
And the text: https://poets.org/poem/naming-cats
Thank you for the ping! Great thread!
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