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Samantha Smart, from Florida, discovered a tiny kitten meowing around her neighborhood for a few days. She knew she had to help the little guy.
In an interview with The Dodo, Samantha Smart tells the story of how little Ponyo came to be part of her family, "It wasn't just a meow, it was a sad little cry. He had the whole neighborhood working together to find and trap him. We have one cat already so we weren't really looking to add another, but it felt like Ponyo was meant for us!"
Soon after the Smart family adopted little Ponyo, Smart's daughter got Ponyo a special stuffed dragon, to make him feel safe.
Now, Ponyo won't sleep without it! He even carries it from room to room. So when Ponyo had to go to the vet, to get neutered, the Smart family knew they had to bring Ponyo's stuffed dragon along.
"My daughter Violet spent a while picking out the perfect friend for him to sleep with and settled on Dragon," Smart continues to tell The Dodo. "He sleeps with Dragon every night and spends a lot of his time dragging him around the house!"
Melissa Jenkins of Operation Catnip told The Dodo, "We all noticed his sweet dragon friend in the carrier with him, so we put the dragon in the kennel with him. Ponyo hid behind the dragon at first and clearly took comfort in it."
Operation Catnip is a "spay-neuter organization that focuses mainly on unowned, free-roaming community cats, to get neutered." You can follow them on Instagram!
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