When a woman found herself in a situation where she couldn’t care for three kittens, she wanted to make sure they were adopted, so she put out a call on Facebook. A man who wanted to use the kittens as bait in dogfights was the first to respond to her.
The woman removed the post straight away, but not before the appropriate individuals learned about the situation and offered their help.
Officer Andy Simmons of the Hillsborough Police Department in North Carolina had been involved in the rescue of a kitten from the wheel well of a vehicle a couple months back, and immediately decided to adopt him.
He named him Officer Monty Sprinkles, but unfortunately, Monty was in poor health from the very beginning, and ended up losing his uphill battle. Simmons put Monty’s ashes in his office and tried to move on, but always felt like a part of him was missing after that.
Officer Simmons found out about the three kittens in the Facebook post from his wife’s coworker, and he and his fellow officers took over the situation and helped find two of the kittens loving forever homes. After everything he had been through with Monty, Simmons decided this was a sign — and adopted the third kitten himself, naming her Mercy.
Officer Simmons and Mercy liked being with one other whenever they could from the beginning and Mercy helped Officer Simmons recover from the death of Monty. Mercy quickly developed a relationship with her new father and began to follow him around the home.
She is highly interested and has a dog’s attitude, according to Officer Simmons, who spoke to The Dodo. She follows me around like a herding dog and is curious about everything.
Since Mercy was so attached to Officer Simmons from the very beginning, he decided to try taking her to work with him — and just like that, little Mercy became the newest officer at the Hillsborough Police Department.
Some of the department’s other officers first expressed some skepticism over the presence of a police cat.
Everyone at the police station now finds it impossible to envision living there without Mercy. But Mercy won them all around in due time.
“As days and weeks went on she began to bond with them, usually climbing on their shoulders as they sat, and it became the new norm,” Officer Simmons said. “Officers always ask where she is if she takes a day off or is not in my office.”
Mercy enjoys spending time in her dad’s office at work and playing on the jungle gym he installed for her. Once she becomes tired with that, she is given free run of the entire station and roams the hallways in search of coworkers to chat with and officers to hang out with.
Mercy’s life nearly took a completely different turn, but because of Officer Simmons, she is currently thriving in her career as a police cat. They kind of saved each other, and Mercy appears willing to spend the rest of her life at her new father’s side.
