A gray cat who moved from home to home for years is reunited with his original rescue thanks to a kind woman and his microchip. Now he holds hands with whoever gives him sweet pets.
Truly ScrumptiousCredit: Whiskers-A-GoGo
Truly Scrumptious, or Truly for short, is a sweet four-year-old gray cat whose story began happily enough. He was adopted as a kitten in 2022 from Whiskers-A-GoGo, an all-volunteer cat rescue in Brooklyn, NY, and sent off with every hope for a wonderful life.
The years that followed took some hard turns. About a year after his adoption, the woman who adopted him left him with her former partner. That partner later moved to a place that did not allow pets and passed Truly on to an elderly member of the family.
When that woman’s landlord also said no cats, she ventured out on foot with a frightened Truly tucked into a granny cart, unsure where he could go. They didn’t have to search far when their luck turned.
Able to rest at lastCredit: Whiskers-A-GoGo
On her way, the woman passed a pet shop called Beastie Bestie in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn and stopped to ask a rescuer named Bronwen where she might surrender him. Rather than sending her straight to the city shelter, Bronwen did one small but important thing: she scanned Truly for a microchip.
That single decision changed everything. When Bronwen called the microchip company, the scan came back registered to a rescue, and not just any rescue, but Whiskers-A-GoGo, the very group that had sent Truly home as a kitten a few years earlier. Instead of heading to the city shelter, he was going back to the people who had cared about him all along.
Back where he belongsCredit: Whiskers-A-GoGo
Bronwen kept Truly safe for a few days until Whiskers-A-GoGo could come and pick him up. The rescue had never stopped counting him as one of their own, and back in their care he was checked over from nose to tail and settled into a foster home, where he could finally exhale after his long and winding journey.
And what a cat he has turned out to be. “Truly is gorgeous, cuddly, affectionate, playful and independent,” Whiskers-A-GoGo shared with LoveMeow, describing a boy who offers companionship and easygoing charm in equal measure.
Settled in foster careCredit: Whiskers-A-GoGo
He has some especially endearing habits, too. He plays fetch with his mouse toys, trotting each one back and dropping it at his person’s feet for another throw, clever and delighted every time. He also adores sleeping in bed alongside his people, and for all his affection he carries an easygoing independence, content in his own company and just as content curled up beside the ones he loves.
The sweetest habit of all comes when he settles in for a cuddle. “He will even reach out to put his paws on your hands and hold them while you cuddle,” the rescue shared.
A cuddlebug through and throughCredit: Whiskers-A-GoGo
For a cat who spent so long without a place to call his own, Truly has landed softly in foster care, healthy, affectionate, and content. Whiskers-A-GoGo put its hope for him plainly. “After being passed around for years, this boy deserves a person who means forever when they say it,” the rescue shared.
Without that microchip, Truly would most likely have vanished into the city shelter system, one more surrendered cat with no way to trace where he came from. It comes down to the tiny chip Whiskers-A-GoGo had registered when he was a kitten, and to Bronwen, who reached for a scanner instead of pointing the woman toward the shelter.
Ready for foreverCredit: Whiskers-A-GoGo
Truly Scrumptious spent years being handed from one place to the next, each home slipping away before it could become permanent.
Now he is back with the rescue that never stopped being his, and the granny cart and the Brooklyn sidewalk are the last hard chapter of his story.
Truly in his placeCredit: Whiskers-A-GoGo
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Source: www.lovemeow.com