<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Woman facing a series of surgeries had no option but to return her beloved feline companion back to the shelter. "It would have been easy to pat the lady on the back, say 'sorry' and move on." But that isn't what happened. Welcome to a dusty Caturday.</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of <i>Dodo for the Love of Animals</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.thedodo.com/maryland-woman-cat-reunited-1968628996.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark">https://www.thedodo.com/maryland-woman-cat-reunited-1968628996.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="headline" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-family: 'PT Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 50px; line-height: 1.1; position: static; background-image: none; width: auto; padding: 25px 0px; word-wrap: break-word; height: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Woman With Health Problems Thought She’d Never See Her Cat Again</h1><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A woman was found crying outside the cat room of an animal shelter in Maryland last week.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She had given up her beloved cat, Missy — but she couldn't stay away.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When the woman adopted Missy, a 1-year-old cat, from <a href="http://www.aacounty.org/departments/animal-control/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Anne Arundel County Animal Control</a> (AACAC), she had no idea that three years later she wouldn't be able to take care of her.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But things took a sad turn earlier this year when the woman learned that she'd have to undergo a sequence of surgeries.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Missy was four and a half years old at this point, and needed special food and medication. Even though the woman searched for someone who would take Missy on during her surgeries, no one would. With nowhere else to go, Missy was brought back to the shelter.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So when a staff member at AACAC found the woman crying by the cat room, she decided she had to do something.<br></span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"She had come back to AACAC to see if Missy was still there," <a href="http://www.faacac.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Friends of AACAC</a> wrote <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FAACAC/photos/a.682048521887703.1073741829.678539978905224/1074058299353388/?type=3&permPage=1" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">on Facebook</a>. "She was, but the lady could not bring herself to walk into the cat room and see her beloved pet in a cage."</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It would have been easy to pat the lady on the back, say 'sorry' and move on," Friends of AACAC <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FAACAC/photos/a.682048521887703.1073741829.678539978905224/1074058299353388/?type=3&permPage=1" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">wrote</a>. But that isn't what happened.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The volunteer staff at AACAC surprised Missy's owner with a plan that would bring Missy home: They found two people willing to take turns pet-sitting Missy at their own homes at no cost until the woman is through with her surgeries and recovered, probably in early October.<br></span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last week, Missy went to the first of the two foster homes. </span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The volunteer who has Missy now says the cat is doing very well," Chris Collins, of Friends of AACAC, told The Dodo. "She has been sending updates and photos to Missy's owner."</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"As soon as the lady is back on her feet again, Missy will return to her true home," Friends of AACAC <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FAACAC/photos/a.682048521887703.1073741829.678539978905224/1074058299353388/?type=3&permPage=1" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">wrote</a>, "her forever home."</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Photos</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_081316_01.jpg">http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_081316_01.jpg</a></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_081316_02.jpg">http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_081316_02.jpg</a></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; line-height: 32px; transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_081316_03.jpg">http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_081316_03.jpg</a></p></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><b>"A Cat Named Sloopy"</b> by Rod McKuen</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Rod_McKuen/A_Cat_Named_Sloopy.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Rod_McKuen/A_Cat_Named_Sloopy.mp3</a><br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>