Out there in cat pens there are hundreds of older cats that need homes. Brutally left without their humans, they will wait for months for a compassionate human to adopt them.
Fergus is a good example. He was brought into an Oxford vet surgery by a kindly local woman. He was so thin that every single vertebra on his back was sticking out. He was starving to death.
He has lost his home when his owner died and was living rough at the age of about 11, definitely a geriatric age for cats. He could not have lasted much longer in the English winter.
The vets examined him, thought he was probably ill as well as starving and that the kindest thing to do would be to put him out of his suffering. Fergus gave deep throated purrs, rubbed himself against the staff, and generally showed he was a loving cat that wanted to live.
Sunshine Cat rescue in West Oxfordshire stepped in and paid for medical treatment - tests for diseases and dental work to pull out an infected tooth. Fergus meanwhile was eating as much as he possibly could!
Now he needs an adopter. He is eating three meals a day, and some extra dry food, putting on weight, and growing a glossy coat.
But he is in my spare room. And he's bored. And I don't want to live with another cat...
- If you can help find a home, share his photo from the website here - https://www.sunshinecatrescue.org.uk/adopt-cat/?catID=6190
I hope he gets a forever home soon. I adopted a 13 yr old in January.
ReplyDeletePoor little guy. Thank you for taking him in temporarily. Purrs he finds a new forever home quickly.
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