“He responded to his name and climbed into my lap like no time had passed”: A family lost their beloved cat in 2012, mourned him for a decade, and then got the call they thought would never come, but bringing shadow home wasn’t so simple

As we have said many times before, and likely many times more in the future, being a cat pawrent is no simple task. You can show them all the love in the world, but at the end of the day they are independent creatures. Who, with very little effort can go out and make a life of their own. Added to that, they are also very limited in their concentration abilities, and can very easily get swept up by something new and completely ignore the world around them. And that is the tail of this silly catto, who wandered off thirteen years before this story was uploaded to Reddit.

And by some stroke of lucky, and possibly the Cat Distribution System, made his way back to his furever family after a decade living the bougiest life possible on the street. Using nothing but his charm and his cunning, this cat solicited food from a whole street, evaded being captured and one day found himself right back where he started, and he was not mad about it.

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Wow that is one heck of a long time to have not given up hope. And it is understandable, most cats are very resilient and would have little to no problem getting by on their cunning and good looks to catch prey and convince hoomans to feed them when they fancied it. But to live in limbo for three years before having to make yourself give up. That sounds terrible.
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Photo 1: Shadow, a grey cat with yellow eyes is lounging on top of a purple blanket which covers OOP. Shadow rests his 2 front legs over OOP’s lap and gazes into their eyes.

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Did we call it, or did we call it. This handsome and cunning cat character used his good looks and nature to solicit food from a whole street worth of people. What a cheeky fella. And all this time he was living so large he did not even think to call or write?! Well, cat children are as cat children be, eh.
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Photo 2: Shadow closes his eyes half way with contentment and reaches one paw on top of OOP’s hand as if to say, “Stop taking photos and pet me already!”

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Photo 3: Shadow continues resting halfway on OOP’s lap with head down and eyes closed.

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Photo 4: Shadow gets comfortable and falls asleep on OOP’s lap with the purple blanket, his two little paws outstretched and head tucked in.

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