After being betrayed by his family when they move away without him, this cat loses all faith in humans, but a kind person gives him a second chance, and after weeks of patience, the cat finally learns to love again
How could anyone just throw their loyal cat onto the streets?
As people who love their cats as much as we do, stories like the one we have for you today, baffle us. Simply baffle us. It has never even crossed our minds not to take our cats with us when we move. Our cats are our family. They depend on us as if they are our kids. Most of them don't know anything other than the lives that we have given them. Our cats are spoiled and loved, well-fed and surrounded by comfy beds and blankets.
My cat, at this point, doesn't even hunt flies anymore. She used to. Used to hunt them down and snack on them when she was a kitten. But now… she requires a higher standard of entertainment, and flies simply don't cut it. The thought of her out there, on the streets, fighting for every scrap of food, for shelter, fighting other cats… it's impossible. She couldn't. She would end up like Flerken.
Flerken was a house cat. A regular house cat. The life of a house cat is all that he knew. But then, one day, without any warning, his family abandoned him when they moved. They didn't bother looking for another family for him. They didn't make the minimal effort to bring him to a shelter or even a vet. They just threw him onto the streets. They broke his heart. They broke his trust in humans. And they put him in a position where he was being bullied by the other stray cats and couldn't do anything about it. Eventually, when he ran out of options, he went to another human on the street to ask them for help, and thankfully, they were good humans.
It took Flerken weeks to even begin to open up, and we don't blame him. After a betrayal like that, we wouldn't have trusted humans either. But his new human was patient and truly wanted to help. So, it didn't matter how long it would take. All that mattered is that Flerken ended up learning to love again.