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"I just adopted my 17 year old lady"
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This is one of our favorite kinds of cat adoption stories, honestly. So many people want to adopt kittens, and for good reasons, reasons that we completely understand. But senior cats deserve warm homes too, and we promise you, as owners of senior cats ourselves, that them being old will not stop them from committing all the shenanigans that they can come up with. They may be old, but they will forever be cats, and that means that there will forever be chaos.
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We wish more stories like this one would go viral. There is nothing that we want more than people giving older cats the love and affection that they deserve. More awareness means fewer senior cats sitting in shelters and waiting for years at a time to be given their chance. It is why we find it so important to cover stories like these - because these cats as just as important as any kitten, and they deserve homes just as much as well.
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Person goes to shelter to adopt a kitten, instead ends up falling in love with a 17-year-old senior cat who has been at the shelter for 2 years, waiting for her forever home: 'This cat is the best thing that happened to me'
Adopting a senior cat is one of the kindest things that any person can do. Everyone loves a kitten, of course. Kittens are meowgical in their own ways. But there is a certain kind of meowgic to senior cats as well. Senior cats make such great pets. And that is something that we think you can only really understand once you live with one.
People think that kittens are more energetic, that cats lose some of that spark once they grow, but these people are wrong. We, as owners of senior felines, can tell you from experience, that senior cats cause chaos too. Their chaos, in fact, is more calculated, methodical and oftentimes successful. And did you know that cats get more cuddly with age? Because they do. Maybe they appreciate us more once they grow a little, maybe they're just seeking more body heat, but they do, and everyone knows that a cuddly cat is a priceless thing.
Often, senior cats spend a long time in shelters, because simply not many people are looking to adopt one. But eventually, we hope, that they will all find their forever homes too. Like the kitty in this story did. It may have taken her 2 years to get out of the shelter, but once she did, it was into the purrfect house.
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