Look I cannot recommend a better way to improve your life than going to the local animal
shelter and asking, “what is the nicest cat you have” and then adopting them, especially if they are plain and old
You also do not need to adopt a difficult pet (unless you have experience doing that / like to do it). Shelters are overflowing right now. There are so many easy, friendly animals out there desperately in need of homes, you can just… choose one of them.
If you want to do something Good but are not sure you can handle behavior issues, and you’re only going to have one cat, consider an FeLV or FIV positive cat. If you are getting a second cat, consider a senior
I lived in a farmhouse once and needed a cat for mice control. Not looking for a pet, I asked the shelter for the least adoptable cat they had. That was a mean, ravished looking veteran called Jack. Took him home where he decimated the mice in a week, after which he turned out to be the nicest dude.
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The mice may have (briefly) held a different opinion of his glorious character
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All our pets have been rescue, indeed a 2 yr old girlie pup joined us yesterday
#ForeverHome
I grew up with cats that just arrived at our door. Where I am now is less rural and so adopting the plain and wonderful cat from the shelter is the closest I can get to that
Me and my BF adopted a 5 year old cat two years ago, she was living in a tiny apartment with 3 other cats, getting passed from house to house without ever having a home, and now she's our angel baby princess and my BF loves her more than life itself.
Totally agree. For our foster I asked "which one will want to cuddle in bed with us?" and she's not ready to cuddle yet, but she DOES sleep in bed and bring her little mousey toy with her, so I'm confident she'll get there 🥺
Ah yes. Cuddling in bed is the first step. It quickly leads to Step Two: smacking you in the face with their paw at 6am because sun’s up and they want breakfast
Our shelter had a cat room where they had several cats housed together. We knew we wanted two so my wife and I just hung out and waited to see who would come up and introduce themselves.
Thanks for asking. The rescue kept all four for well over a month as required. All have been adopted, one of them twice. The first folks returned her.
No pictures on this device or I'd post some. Took about three weeks to house train her. She's such a sweet dog it's crazy. Typical rescue.
Not our first adoption with the breed. Adopted an older pair almost 20 years ago, which is probably why the national Pyr rescue let us have this one. Carrie Underwood was her name at the kennel, but we've renamed her Coco. Short for Coquette. Very loving dogs. Yep, adopted many dogs over the years.
Great name, Coquette. I've yet to meet a Pyr I didn't immediately fall in love with. Such soulful dogs.
Fostering: It can be painful to let go when they're adopted, but I've stayed in touch with many of the adopters. Some have even become close friends, & the pups remained in my life. ❤️
As promised a pic or two. Coco pup. or Coco nut depending on her energy level at the moment.
Coco weighed about 50 lbs when we adopted and now she's over 70lbs. Sweetest rescue we've adopted.
We live on 10 acres, so her walks are all runs with her older 'brother' who is a standard Poodle. When Coco went in for her spaying, about a month after we adopted, the fellow said he had never seen a Pyr who would willingly follow on a leash. Trained a bunch of dogs and she's by far the easiest.
