18-year-old stray senior cat finally finds a forever home after over a decade of waiting, when a kind engineer decides she deserves to live out her retiremet in peace: 'I can't have her out in this'

All senior cats should be able to live out their retirements in warm and loving homes.

We believe this wholeheartedly. All cats deserve forever homes, that is a simple fact, but senior cats… senior cats don't get adopted as often. People, with all of the valid or invalid reasons they have, don't see senior cats as a top priority when it comes to adoption. More often than not, senior cats are in shelters for long periods of time. But that is still better than a senior cat living on the streets.

In general, cats don't reach very old ages on the streets. There are too many risks that they have to take, too many difficult conditions for them to handle. There's a reason house cats live 3-5 times as long as street cats. It doesn't happen often that a stray cat reaches 18 years of age, but it happened here. Somehow, being careful enough, this kitty survived this long, and even seems to be in good health. But there's no telling how much longer she would have made it out there, and the fact that someone finally took notice of her, finally decided that she deserved a good and warm home… really, we can only be thankful for them.

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"I want to Home an 18-year-old baby"

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Generally speaking, we are against letting senior cats live out their retirements outside, where they have to fight for shelter, food, and basic necessities. Most stray cats don't reach this age in the first place. Something ends up taking them. But the ones who do deserve to be taken in at this age. They deserve the blankets and the abundant food and treats. They deserve the love. And maybe it wouldn't be the easiest transition for them. Maybe it would take a while for them to get used to the good life. But that's not true in our experience. In the stories that we have come across where this happens, the cats are so, so thankful to finally be spoiled the way they deserve.
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"I took Home the 18-year-old baby."

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We are so, so happy that you took this kitty home. She has more than earned a warm place to live. We wish you both many, many happy years together. And after all of this, if there is one thing that we could ask of you, it's for you to update us - to let us see pictures of her living her best life with you, to tell us just how quickly she adjusted, and all of the things that she loves about her new life.
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