2023-07-12 23:12:02
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He is seriously ill, but was able to convince himself: the tomcat “Schwarznase” has been adopted by an old lady from the Bergedorf animal shelter. © Brunngartner/Bergedorf Animal Shelter
He shouldn’t die in the shelter: A seriously ill cat has been adopted by an old lady. Even though she didn’t want the animal at first.
Ganderkesee – It is touching stories like these that encourage people to get an animal: on the social media channels of the Bergedorf animal shelter in Ganderkesee (Lower Saxony) writes a Facebook user about the adoption story of the seriously ill cat “Schwarznase” and how the senior managed to convince a “dear grandma” of himself.
It “couldn’t have been anything better”: dear grandma adopts a cat with cat AIDS
Once upon a time there was a 19-year-old cat who had been sitting at the Bergedorf animal shelter for a very long time. The almost fairytale-like story of “Schwarznase” could begin like this or something similar. The cat suffers from the FIV virus. This disease, also known colloquially as feline AIDS, is a worldwide viral infection that causes an immune deficiency. A foster home for life was urgently needed for “Black Nose” because he should not die in the shelter.
The Facebook user who regularly walks the dog Rex from the animal shelter, found out about the sad fate of the cat and wanted to help. “I immediately added 1 and 1 together,” she writes, thinking of a “totally dear grandma” from her neighborhood who recently lost her cat in an accident.
Didn’t want a sick hangover: “Grandma’s first reaction was devastating”
“Grandma’s first reaction was unpromising or devastating,” she continues. The seniors didn’t want a sick hangover – they didn’t want to lose another animal again. Instead, she fell in love with another cat from the shelter.
A few days passed before the old lady was taken to the shelter to see her cat that she loved so much. However, she “didn’t give one look” to him. So it came to the big performance of “Black Nose”.
“Hardly out of his box, he curiously explored the surroundings in the entrance area of the shelter, first hissed at the other cats behind the doors and then came to cuddle,” it says on social media. Grandma seemed very impressed and after a short consultation on the subject of the FIV virus and the associated peculiarities, she decided to take the cat home with her to try it out.
Story with a happy ending and moral: “Give older people a chance at an animal too”
When he got home, he immediately explored the area and then sat down on the sofa with his grandmother, purring. Since then, people have been cuddled, combed and slept in the bed with grandma in her arms, the two “behave like an old married couple and have been inseparable ever since.”
A story that ends well for the two seniors. And she even has a moral. The appeal on Facebook reads: “Dear animal shelters, dear animal rights activists, also give older people a chance at an animal … often it is the only attention and occupation that these people still have and nothing better could have happened to the two ‘old irons’. “
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