'He was just on his own': Husband and wife both abandon their cat after divorce, leaving him alone, confused and "just wanting a hug", until a kind human steps in, adopts him and gives him the love he never got

Divorce is hard on everyone - and that includes the cats. 

Adopting a cat together is, in theory, a really great and wholesome idea. A way to bond over something mutual. A "baby" to raise together. Lots of couples do it when they are in love and happy and everything seems great. And if everything works out, then perfect. The kitty has two loving pawrents instead of just one. But it doesn't always work out. Sometimes, breakups happen. And those breakups happen to the cats too. 

When you split up your family - and that is what you become when you adopt a cat together - you cannot split the cat between the two parents. It's not a child. It can't do weekends in one house and weekdays in the other. Cats need stability, and cat people generally understand that. So that raises the question - who gets to keep the cat? 

In every case like this that we have seen so far, there is always a custody battle. Both owners want the cat, both owners are bonded with the cat, and to an extent, even if the cat is bonded to one owner more than the other, it's still bonded to both of them. What we have never seen is a case like the one today. Despite being one of the friendliest, cuddliest, sweetest cats that we have ever seen, neither of his owners wanted him. This cat was actually abandoned after his owners divorced, and honestly, we don't get it. We don't understand why they would adopt a cat in the first place if neither of them really wanted him. It's a good thing that actual good people exist in this world. 

The woman who decided to rescue this cat saved his life. Because he was lost. He didn't understand why he was abandoned by everyone, why he was left alone to fend for himself. All he wanted was a hug. And this woman gave that to him and more. He is now in a home where he is actually loved, unlike where he was before. So maybe we should say thank you to his previous owners. He's in a much better home now.