‘We have rescued MANY cats but never seen one who just wanted to love immediately like Cooper did.’: Cat loving family save severely neglected 4-year-old cat who looked like he was 20 due to his ill health, before settling him into his furever home

Cat rescues are hardly ever straightforward. They usually contain several severe twists and turns, so much so that your head usually ends up feeling as though it is spinning at a thousand revolutions per second. However, the story we have for you today, thankfully, is an example of the exact opposite of that, well other than the cattos backstory which is more complicated and convoluted than the Minotaur's maze. For it was not clear to the rescuers if this cute catto had been missing for months or years, and not was it clear where this catto had gone missing from.

But his recovery story and integration into his furever home is thankfully one of the sweetest and simplest stories we have had the good fortune of getting to tell. Even if it did require several trips to the vet and a surgery. So settle in and get ready for the wonderfully happy ending that this catto and so many other cat children deserve to their rescue stories.  

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