Catster Superstar: Minxy!
Minxy probably owns the world’s record for the length of time a shelter cat has waited for a furrever home AND the age at which she was placed in a furrever home. At the age of 21, after living at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary for TEN years, Minxy was adopted.
She lost her home ten years ago when her guardian developed health problems. She was relocated to Best Friends, and spent a decade watching family after family come through only to adopt somebody else.
(Need a break to grab a tissue?)
Enter Lisa of Orangevale, California. Cruising the Best Friends website, she saw Minxy and felt a tug at her heartstrings. Poor Minxy! Lisa felt sad for her, but wasn’t ready to adopt.
Returning to bestfriends.org a year later, Lisa saw Minxy again, and that was that. Fearing Minxy would never leave Best Friends, Lisa gave her a furrever home.
Lisa was concerned that, having lived in a shelter environment for ten years, Minxy might have trouble adapting to a home and four other cats. Not a problem! Acclimation was almost immediate, and despite her age and diminutive stature (she weighs in at six pounds), Minxy rules the roost. As Best Friends put it, “After 10 years at Best Friends, Minxy earned a Ph.D. in living with other cats.”
Lisa is aware that her time with Minxy will likely be brief, so she lavishes as much attention and affection on Minxy as one can squeeze into each day. That even includes accupuncture!
Here’s Minxy’s bio from her Catster profile:
Minxy is a super sweet cat and loves to snuggle and purr. She is a total lap hog and making up for her years in the shelter where she had to compete for lap time. She also loves sleeping on a bed again and especially the goose down duvet. Minxy has absolutely no teeth left – the last few were removed last year. Despite this she can eat dry kibble with no problems and actually prefers this to wet food. She’s relearning her table manners as the 1st evening I ate dinner Minxy ran up and grabbed the chicken off my plate. She’s much better behaved at dinnertime now but still cadges like crazy.
Ever the sweetheart, Minxy has recently been devoting her energies to finding a furrever home for Tabby, a sweet six-month-old kitten who was abandoned in their neighborhood near Sacramento, CA when his family moved away. Minxy is hopeful that Tabby won’t have to wait ten years to find his furrever home. Visit his Catster profile for info on adopting him.
Got a minute? Drop by and say hi to Minxy, Catster Superstar.
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We are SOOOOOOOO glad that Minxy got a furever home….even if she did have to wait way to long.
What a shaina punim!
ohmygosh! Mom does need a tissue! Yay for you Minxy! We are very, very happy that you found your Forever Home!!
That is such a sweet story. I’m so glad she finally found a forever home.
This story proves that there is a forever home for every cat you just have to be patient and good thing will come. Good on Lisa for giving Minxy a home.
This is wonderful!
I am so happy that Minxy finally has her very own lap!
WOWW I’m so happy for her.
God Bless you. I wish we had more people like Lisa.
WOW, I’m so happy for her.It’s so wonderful to hear that we have so nice people like Lisa.
God Bless you Lisa.
just goes to show that not every older cat is grumpy. she sounds like my kind of cat, despite her age. my fiance and i already decided to adopt the high-risk cats. the one’s that are most likely to get put down if they’re in a regular shelter instead of no-kill. and do fostering for high attention cats. i wouldn’t mind, cats are my life.
Watta wunderful storee! We sooo happee sum uv us ar a leetle weepeez an sum uv us ar purrin an lickin an sum a us ar runnin aroun da house an Charlie Longtail iz doin laps (scratch scratch crash bang!) in hiz grate beeg giant cardboard box! An mommee luv doze teeny catz: our Lilibet Squeekietoy weighz a woppin seven pounds an let us tel ya, shee rulez da roost aroun heer too! xoxoxo, Alla Us!
We wuz just thinkin how many yearz it had been since dainty little Minxy had the enormus pleasure uv steelin CHICKEN offa sum hooman’z dinner plate! It makes our mommee’z eyes leek a bit an makes her heev a sigh an giv a smile just too think about that wunderful happening!