Shelter happily finds a home for a healthy, playful kitten only for her to be returned a day later with multiple broken bones and "in critical condition": 'This is my worst nightmare come true... I thought I was setting this cat up for a good life'

Working in a shelter, finding good people to adopt cats, seeing these cats go to their forever homes, getting pictures of these cats from their owners looking happy, surrounded by love in their new homes… we have always thought that must be one of the most gratifying jobs ever. We have also thought about how much responsibility that must be. Finding a loving home for a cat is not always easy. We have seen cats come from horrible homes before, homes where they were neglected and forgotten and not loved. And as much as working in shelter is gratifying, we kind of suspected that it was also scary, and today, sadly, we had our suspicions confirmed. 

The person working in this shelter thought that they found the purrfect home for this cat. A loving family, many years of happiness - that was all in this kitten's future on the day that the papers were signed. But the dreams shattered when less than a day later, the same adopters called the shelter with the worst news that they could have possibly had. 

Wonton is doing better now, thankfully, now that she's back with the shelter. But we think this is a lesson. You can never be too careful when vetting people for adoption. 

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