A heartwarming story, for a change

There is another local rescuer that pulls cats from a nearby high kill shelter. She runs a foster network so can only help so many but really does make a difference. With the Christmas slowdown (adoptions are always slower this time of year as people know they are too busy and you have to weed out the gift ones) she could only rescue one cat on her latest trip to the pound.

I know this broke her heart as the pound is overrun right now, they barely experienced a slowdown after the summer, so she went and picked a cat that matched the qualities that her foster had requested and fell in love with a kitten that she got someone to agree to take.

But her heart still ached for some of the older cats that are languishing in there, several in particular that upset us all when we heard, they were both very senior with very little chance of adoption. She had mentioned (ranted perhaps) on her blog about the 's that could allow their 15+ y/o declawed cat stray. Thankfully, someone came across her blog and sent her a message that she would like to give two of these older cats a chance at love in their last days, weeks, months or years - whatever may come of their lives.

The male is estimated to be close to 20 years old (this may come down a little once he is fed well etc, they are guestimating on his intake condition)

When we are all dealing with jerks who want to surrender young healthy animals to get new ones for Christmas or aren't cute kittens / puppies anymore, it was heartwarming to read her post

I know I thought I was taking on a lot with Scully at 9 and Autumn who was a feral 3 y/o. I brought Scully home expecting him to have just months with us, but I know so many people who visit the shelter think 2 is too old so its amazing to hear of a 20 year old getting a home, especially a scruffy one.

The oldest, I think, we have had in our shelter was estimated to be 12-15 (I know our vets tend to be a little conservative because they know it helps them get adopted so will go with close to 15)

I know

I am working on restoring my faith in humanity

She posted an update, the two cats are now in their forever home and she was very happy to go in on 'vet visit day' (something I can't do because I literally pull the cats out of the arms of the vet to save them regardless of who I am supposed to be picking up) to save them.

They are estimated to be 14 (female) and 'close to 20' (male) and they have 4 new senior buddies who they seem to have no issues with (they have already gone nose to nose). The 14 y/o female is the youngest of the house so they have their own little retirement community happening.

The blog post is titled 'An Angel?' and I think the answer to that is yes!