'I'm just a person who likes to take naps with cats': Sweet senior man finds his purrpose after volunteering in local cat shelter to nap with cats every day

Ayala Sorotsky • Writer and Editor

Jan 13, 2025 1:00 PM EST

Hello cat lovers and nap-time snoozers, did you just wake up from a deep nap? Well, get your cup of coffee, or tea, or whatever that wakes you up - because, oh boy, do we have a story for you. And you want to be wide awake for this one, we pawmise. You know how you love cats like nothing else in the world? And you know how you love taking a refreshing nap, preferably while you're cuddled up with a cute cat? Well, the combination of these two things is the everyday reality of one sweet senior man, who has found his purrpose after volunteering in a local cat shelter by napping with the cats.

Honestly, if we could, we would make it our life mission - to nap and cuddle with shelter cats, giving them the love, affection, and cuddle time they deserve. This is a two-way pawsitive exchange, because if this is what we could do on a daily basis - we'd be the happiest hoomans to have ever hooman. It seems this empathic elderly man is so happy to visit the cats and nap with them, and the cats are so happy with him as well. What an adorable connection they have, our hearts have completely melted.

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This cat's look says “Dear photographer hooman, you disturb my daily nap with my favorite old man. Do you know what happens when you disturb a cat's strict schedule? Do you know what happens when that disturbance is done for a cat's nap time? Chaos. Now, please, move away and let me snuggle my favorite hooman in peace.”
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It's just so heartwarming to know how this hearty hooman loves these shelter cats, and how much he knows them by this point. And it's so wholesome to know they love him back with all their fluffy feline might.
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