If a cat can understand human words, a staff member of a stray cat shelter in Canada would like to tell a three-legged stray cat a sentence: "You have always been missed and loved, and you have not been abandoned by this world."
This three-legged stray cat is called Bubby. Not only does it have three legs, it also loses half of its tail. The cat was picked up in a blizzard. When it was lying on the veterinary clinic, it was already dying, but in the end it survived tenaciously. The person in the stray cat shelter posted the photo of the cat Bubi on the Internet and did not have much expectation that the disabled cat could be adopted. However, a girl came to the door and said excitedly that she wanted to adopt the cat, and told the staff about a relationship between humans and cats that had spanned many years.
It turned out that as early as 2012, the girl's father, Boyd Abbott, met the cat who was begging for food. At that time, it was already like a cat, and had lost one leg and half of its tail. No one knew what it had experienced.
The cat was lying carelessly in the kitchen of Abbott's house, as if it had regarded it as its home. But it doesn't want to live here for a long time. It visits this family every day, stays for a while and leaves on its own.
Abbott likes this cat very much and wants to adopt it immediately, but he also respects the cat's own wishes. If it is born to like wandering around, then keeping it at home is undoubtedly a punishment for it.
The family has maintained a good relationship with the cat until one day in 2017, when Abbott unfortunately passed away. Before he died, he hoped that his family would have the opportunity to adopt the cat at home.
Although it is a blessing to wander freely outside, considering that the cat is getting older and wandering life is becoming more and more dangerous for it, Abbott's family decided to adopt the cat. However, just after Abbott's death, the cat magically disappeared.
People put food as usual in places where it often came, and the food remained intact after a few days. The family sadly believed that the cat might have encountered an unexpected situation.
After a while, the family moved out of their original residence, and they all thought they would never see the three-legged cat again in their life.
Unexpectedly, in the summer of 2019, the cat suddenly appeared miraculously. It still walked to the house where Abbott lived, but was disappointed to find that the man who fed it was missing. Unfortunately, the new homeowner who moved here doesn't like cats very much, and is even a little afraid of cats. The poor cat walked here every few days to look for old friends, but no results were obtained.
It happened that another resident nearby, Lei, knew the story of the cat and this family. When he heard that the cat was back, Lei hurriedly asked the new owner not to drive the cat away. If he sees it again next time, please open a door for it and call him.
The next day, Lei received a call from the new homeowner and then picked up the dying cat from his kitchen. It turned out that night the cat struggled to enter its familiar kitchen in the blizzard. However, there was no food or the warmth of the man, and its body and mind were broken.
Maybe the cat at that time was blaming the ruthless human in his heart, but did not stay there and wait for him. It didn't know that the person it was looking for was gone, but fortunately that person's love for it was still preserved and inherited by his family.
Now the cat has officially become a part of the Abbott family. Maybe it is old, or maybe it is hard-won this time. It finally stopped trying to leave and started to be an ordinary indoor pet cat with peace of mind.
The average life span of a stray cat is 3 years, and it is rare for those who can live to 5 years, while this three-legged cat has lived for at least 8 years. Part of its survival miracle is attributed to the Abbott family, and part of it is due to its tenacious vitality. However, if the male owner Abbott had been more determined and adopted it directly instead of allowing it to be a free-range cat for the past five years, everything would not have happened later. This cat is lucky enough to meet so many kind-hearted people who think about it, and finally gained a family, but not every stray cat can have such an adventure.
If you love it, take it home.