Neglected senior cat kept in a cage his whole life finds a wholesome new beginning after getting rescued at 18 years old

It takes a special kind of purrson to adopt a senior cat, but it wouldn't take more than a glance for anyone to see how special 'Pudge', the 18-year-old cat, was.

Adopting senior kitties is one of the hardest and most rewarding things you can do as a cat lover. It's hard because you know that you will fall in love and have your heart broken before you know it, but as Shakespeare once said, "It's better to have loved and have lost than to never have loved at all".

The older they get, the less chance they have of getting adopted, too. For the exact reasons we said earlier, most people don't want to adopt a cat for a year or two, they want as much time with them as they can. It's totally understandable, but that also means that most senior cats end their lives alone in an animal shelter, and that's the least fair thing we can think of.

Pudge was able to escape that unfair reality. Found by happenstance online, one cat mom and her husband took one look at this 18-year-old baby and couldn't say no. He had been kept in a cage his whole life (don't even get us started), but they decided to adopt him and give him the best last months of his life. Well, two months turned into three, three turned into six, and six months turned into a year. Pudge lived. He played. He ate steak, and ice cream.

Pudge's story makes us believe that the love and heartbreak is worth it to see how much a new beginning can change even the oldest cat's life. They deserve it, and so do you.

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Turns out that Pudge and us have quite a bit in common! We also like ice cream and steak. If we were 18 years old (which is about 88 hooman years), we would also want to eat the good stuff. No, we're not talking about Fancy Feast, we're talking about prime rib and gelato.
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They just want to be loved like any other cat, it's not so hard to understand. The problem lies with us, the hoomans! We don't want to love them for so little time, to get attached and then lose them. But it's not fair to them, can you imagine living out your last days alone and scared in an animal shelter?
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