Stories Of People Who Changed Their Minds And Chose To Adopt 'Impurrfect' Cats At The Last Moment (Viral Twitter Thread)

A lot of us, when we go to a shelter to adopt a cat, have an idea in our minds of what that cat is going to be. A kitten, an adult cat, a bonded pair perhaps. But when it comes to cat adoption, things rarely turn out the way you expect them to. And that's because the premise is wrong. It's not 'when we go to a shelter to adopt a cat', it's 'when we go to a shelter to get adopted by a cat', because it's cats who choose their humans, not the other way around. 

We have read so many stories at this point of people going into shelters wanting to adopt kittens and coming out with adorable 'impurrfect' cats instead. And those 'impurrfect' cat adoption stories always hit us so much harder than any other ones. Because we know those people are meant to be with those cats - we know they were chosen, and we know they'll live the happiest lives together. 

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