We adopted Tiger last December, he was 9 and 1/2 at the time and had been in foster care for almost two years. He came with a fairly detailed history, even a note describing his personality from the gentleman who was his original owner. We had lost our beloved 19 yr old kitty earlier in the year and we (and our poodle, Lily) were still grieving. Somehow i knew we were meant to find him.
He has been a real blessing. He immediately took to Lily and became her best friend. We had adopted a younger cat from S.P.O.T. earlier in the year who is an independent spirit and had rebuffed all Lily's attempts at friendship (and most of ours) but Tiger's calm demeanor and easygoing personality has smoothed the whole household. He snuggles with my husband, myself, and Lily, and plays with Belladonna, and he is working very slowly but steadily at "taming" her and having more success than we did in the previous six months!
He is our portly gentleman (we actually had to enlarge the cat door to the back porch where the litter box is) and has learned our daily routines, makes sure we don't sleep late in the mornings, and greets us at the door when we get home. In spite of his age, he is still playful and quite agile. We just couldn't be happier with him, and he seems to have settled in happily, judging from the amount of purring we hear!
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