'I didn’t rescue him, he rescued me': Person who came to the shelter "just to look" ends up adopting an 8-year-old cat who has been at the shelter the longest, now she realizes that she's actually the one who was saved

One thing that we always talk about here on ICHC is that cats adopt their humans, not the other way around. And we mean it. Maybe non-cat owners wouldn't understand, but it's true. And we mean that in the full sense. When you say that you are going to adopt a cat, you are also saying that you are going to change its life, that you are going to make their life better, happier, fuller. When we say that our cats adopt us, that is exactly what we mean - that they make our lives better, happier, fuller. 

We couldn't imagine our lives without them. But sometimes, we forget. Every once in a while, maybe when our cats are being more mischievous than usual, we forget to say thank you to them for being in our lives. And then we see a story like this one - so raw in its honesty, and we remember again. Yes, we didn't rescue out cats, our cats are the ones who rescued us. 

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