Two friends make a heartwarming journey out of taking 45 foster cats who were abandoned by the shelter system to another state to find them furrever homes: 'First time it was 26 cats, this time we had 45'

If you thought transporting one cat to the vet was hard, imagine taking over 40 in the same car.

Getting our cats into the car to go anywhere is a whole ordeal. Even just getting them into the carrier takes at least twenty minutes and we end up exhausted before the journey even begins. But our journey to the vet is a much less wholesome story than the one below, where two friends take on the task of transporting 45 foster cats that were put into overflow by the shelter system (meaning that they were about to be abandoned for lack of space) to another state to find them furrever homes. If there were ever some angels in disguise, it must certainly be these two.

After 15 hours, the two pawrents safely made it to Kansas, where the cats were distributed to different shelters to hopefully be ready for adoption, and then to their new families. One of the friends fell head-over-paws in love with one of the cats, 'Nutmeg', who spent most of the time in their lap either sleeping or trying to chew their headphone cable. Unfurtunately, they were not able to keep Nutmeg, but released her to find someone who could care for her as she deserved to be.

This story is not a common one, but it teaches us a few impurrtant lessons. Firstly, to always spay or neuter your cats. The reason why so many shelters are full is because there are simply too many stray cats and not enough space. The second, is that sometimes the right thing to do is hard. It takes time (15 hours, to be exact). It will be uncomfortable, sometimes. But we don't do good deeds for the result, we do them because a good deed is its own reward.

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We put forty five cats that aren’t ours into a van

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Then drove from Central Illinois to Western Kansas

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We've maybe helped around 30 cats in our entire lifetime by feeding neighborhood strays and volunteering at an animal shelter a few times, but to save 45 cats at once is nothing short of a miracle. Think of what might have happened to these poor babies if these two hadn't taken it upon themselves to take them to where they needed to be. All cats deserve a warm home and a purrson who loves them, and it's not fair that they don't get that because of our choices.
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Nutmeg

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Nutmeg cuddles

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Snuggly girl

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Sleepy, snuggly Nutmeg

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