A man visited an animal shelter with the intention of adopting a dog, but he ended up falling in love with ONE PARTICULAR CAT
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A self-proclaimed dog person (not a cat guy) went to a local shelter two years ago in hopes of giving a puppy a home, but he ended up being chosen by a little tortoiseshell.
“I was in Virginia for some training. At this specific time, a pretty large snow was blowing through. When I was on my way home I heard on the radio that a shelter called Richmond Animal League was looking for temporary/permanent homes for all of their animals, as the staff expected to get snowed in,”
He was living alone and thought about getting a 4-legged companion. He decided to visit the shelter and look into rescuing a pup. When he got there, all the dogs had been re-homed.
“It was great, but I couldn’t bring myself to simply leave without even considering what I had gone there for.”
He was taken into a cat room where he interacted with a few kitties there. “The woman who was working, saw that I wasn’t really moved by any of these potential housemates, so she showed me back out to the lobby where they had some younger creatures separated in cages,” he said.
One of them, named Marbles, was tucked back in the corner. The woman asked the guy to go ahead and pick her up.
“I opened the cage, picked her up and that was it. She started meowing the most pathetic little chirps as she pushed her face to the brim of my cap (this is when they got the picture), only to be backed by a rumble of purring. I turned into a huge sap,” he told Love Meow.
“I didn’t like or ever want cats before this. Simply put; I shook my
