Cats that have been saved are not bitter. Any they have been through and whatever scars they have are covered by a velvety layer of fur.
Tristan eventually put his past in the past, it simply took some time.
When he was rescued, along with 45 cats from a hoarding situation in Iowa last year, his fur, along with his heart, seemed to be in tatters.
“I saw him in the filthy window when we pulled up,” Amy Haas-Gray, founder of Hardin-Eldora Animal Rescue Team (HEART), tells The Dodo. “Just a tiny little guy, eyes all matted shut, he had his head back and his mouth open trying to breathe. He was the first one I grabbed when we finally got in there.”
With a little time and a lot of care, Tristan would open his eyes to a brand-new life.
“I knew that he had been in a rough situation before I adopted him,” Megan Riker tells.
In fact, Haas-Gray had warned Riker before she met him that “he looked a little rough.”
It wasn’t until Riker met him that the depths of his old situation really hit home.
One look at the forlorn feline, Riker says, “broke my heart.”
But not Tristan’s. The little black cat seemed to be in a hurry to catch up on all the things in life he had missed.
He enjoys playing with my pets, according to Riker. especially Holly, my German shepherd.
She continues, “He’s a very talkative cat. He frequently trills and coos for attention, and he has the most charming manner of softly stroking my leg when he wants attention.”
Tristan is not the only cat from that Iowa property that has changed remarkably in the past 12 months.
Tyrone transformed from a dejected face among a sea of others.
To a new life with a family who named him Cubbie.
Riker acknowledges that she was seeking a kitten when she initially wanted to acquire a cat. She instead discovered a cat that had lost his youth.
He may be living every day like an immortal cat for that reason.
She continues, “But he’s a handsome youngster now, with a long smoky coat, and extremely lively.
