The kindest cat you’ll ever meet, Harry has lived with his mother since he was a young kitten. Despite the fact that he sometimes presents a grouchy and unamused exterior, Harry is actually the most caring cat you’ll ever meet.
“Harry looks like he hates everyone and everything a lot of the time, but really, he is the clingiest, cuddliest dude ever,” Beka Smyth, Harry’s mom, told The Dodo. “He likes to be involved with everything I do, will call out for me if I leave the room and he doesn’t know where I’ve gone, and since he was a little tiny kitten he’s slept pretty much directly on my head at night.”
Recently, Smyth and her companion were out shopping when she noticed something that caused her to halt in her tracks. An enormous cat cushion that resembled Harry was on the top shelf of the store they were at. Smyth knew she had to get the cushion since Harry was so well portrayed by the coloring and sour look.
As soon as she and her partner got home, Smyth introduced her new Harry look-alike pillow to Harry — and at first, he had no idea how to react.
“Harry’s response was a little unexpected. I thought that he may freak out at the sight of it, but instead he kind of just looked at me as if to say, ‘Is this some kind of joke?’” Smyth said.
After the initial introductions, Smyth put the pillow on top of Harry’s cat tree, and he quickly hopped up next to it, slowly transitioning from confused to very, very curious.
The next day, the pillow migrated to the couch, and so did Harry. He hopped up onto the couch next to it, settled in — and refused to move for pretty much the entire day.
Sometime after the pillow arrived, Harry decided that, after his initial shock, he was actually quite in love with it after all, and wanted to spend as much time with his new best friend as possible.
He spent the whole day on the sofa next to it, occasionally getting up to see what I was doing in the study, according to Smyth. Since then, he has spent a lot of time sitting next to it.
When Smyth first bought the pillow, she thought it was a super amusing coincidence that Harry might get a kick out of as well, but had no idea that the grumpy-looking pillow would actually turn out to be her cat’s new best friend.
