'[He's] meowing his soul out, and nobody cares at all': Elderly cat whose owner moved to assisted home is given to the new occupants, who immediately neglect him, so the neighbor steps in and gives the cat the retirement he deserves

Losing your cat is hard. But for a cat to lose its owner could be even harder.

It doesn't even have to be a rainbow bridge situation. Sometimes, life just happens. For this cat, his loving elderly owner, who loved him with her whole heart, who took care of him, giving him everything he could ever need, simply couldn't take care of him any longer. She didn't abandon her cat. She had to move to an assisted home, and he, sadly, couldn't come with her. She did the best that she could, leaving him to the new residents in her old home, people who had cats, understood cats, who should, by all accounts, have been good to her cat. Except that they weren't.

These new owners neglected the cat right away. It barely took a few days before they decided that he couldn't be in their - his - home full-time. They left the cat out in freezing temperatures, and he would cry for help, and "nobody cares at all". That's what their neighbor said. Except that wasn't entirely true. Because the neighbor cared. The neighbor, who knew about the situation, and who wanted to do something about it actually went and did it.

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"Is this a CDS sign? What to do with elderly, neglected neighbor's cat?"

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As much as it is painful to hear about the way that this cat had been treated by his new “owners”, this story, at the end of the day, to us, is one of hope. This could have gone on forever. They would have been leaving him outside, at this elderly age, and things would have escalated beyond anything that we can imagine. If you weren't there. The fact that there was someone around him, who noticed that he was in need of help, who cared enough to make the effort to actually do something about it, even though it wasn't easy - that is what matters in this story. And that is something to be extremely thankful for.
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"Update: neighbor's elderly cat, now called Mumune, is now safe inside"

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"2nd Update - thank you all so much for encouraging me to save little Mumune"

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Just from looking at him in these pictures, you can see that he is doing so much better. Finally, he is back in the hands of someone who actually cares about him. We can only imagine how difficult it was to be separated from his first loving owner the way that he was. We know that this may be a lot to ask for, but if you can, if you have any way of doing it, we think that it would make his elderly owner so happy to see a picture or two of him - of him happy and calm in his new forever home.
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