‘He loves to headbutt, loves to be in laps, and is honestly pretty healthy.’: A gentle, neglected senior cat is given another chance to find a furever home by his current caretakers, who prioritized his emotional safety over their own attachment

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Oct 17, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

Senior cattos can only really be of two sorts, extra salty or extra sweet. Because after a feline lifetime's worth of living, the only thing our cute cat children become is more extreme in their world views. Meaning that if they were treated well and loved by their pawrents as they so deserved, they will usually end up cuddly and comforting. While, if they we not treated so nicely, or they simply grew up despising the world around them, then they would be very likely to turn into grouchy grump machines who cannot even bare to look a stupid hooman in the eyes.

Thankfully, our rescued buddy in this story is of the former kind of catto, and his rescuers turned out to be some of the most thoughtful that we have come across in a long time. Deciding to give their elder feline the home he deserved rather than keeping him with them for his sweet and cuddly nature.
 

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    1st, i know this sounds terrible, but please hear me out.
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    My boyfriend and I took in a senior cat from my dad who simply didnt want him anymore.
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    I do not have much info on him, as he hasnt been to a vet in years and my dad doesnt remember
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    how old he is. The cat, named Kitty, is a male and he is definitely over 10 years old. He is
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  • While we do not like to look at the negatives can we just take a moment to appreciate the depths of damnation that this cat has come from? To be named Kitty as a cat is down right offensive, like naming a hooman baby Toddler. And then to be so uncared for that your pawrent does not even know your age? We are so happy that this catto has moved on from his original owner.

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    spayed and has had vaccinations and flea treatments before
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    I want him to go to a loving person, as he is super sweet BUT he has been abused prior to my dad, so he is a
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    nervous cat. He does well with other cats but needs his own space to feel comfortable, which we cant
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    do as we live in a mobile home. Our other cats tend to by him and he is stressed living with us. He
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    currently lives in a closet and comes out when no other cats are around. He loves windows
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    He is also declawed due to my dad. He loves to headbutt, loves to be in laps, and is
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  • Well, of course the other cats bully him. He is a cat named Kitty who has no claws, that is just a cruel way to set up a feline for failure. Especially when it seems that he is one of the sweetest boys on the planet. 

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    honestly pretty healthy. While he is a scaredy cat, he gets comfortable pretty fast.
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    If this doesnt pan out, we will be forced to give him to the animal shelter and i fear that he wont be
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    adopted through a shelter and may be e. due to his d anxiety and age. We want
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    him to go to a good, caring home - no dog fighting, no a.se, no
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    cruelty. He deserves to live as a senior cat in peace.
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    UPDATE: He has found a foster and will eventuall y have a profile
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    on Petfinder :) the foster is through Hands to Paws Rescue,
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    so keep an eye out on their page. Thank you so much to
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    everyone ! He got up to date at the vet, and is with his foster. I
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    cried a little, but he will be so much happier
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    with a house that has no other pets.
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