After 12 long years of living in the shelter, tabby cat Momma finally found her human and is now living in her own loving forever home.
Momma the tabby had lived in the shelter for 12 years since she was just 3 months old.
Patrick Campbell Priest started working at the Worcester County Humane Society not long ago. “I want to take them all home with me but that’s not very practical, so I bring myself to them,” he said to delmarvanow. “They need someone to take care of them.”
It also didn’t come as a surprise to the shelter that he was also looking to adopt a cat after losing his family pets due to old age and natural causes last year.
There are more than 150 cats there, but Patrick knew exactly which cat he wanted.
27 out of the 150 cats at the Worcester County Humane Society have been living there for more than four years.
“We have so many cats,” said Lenore Bennett, interim executive director of the humane society. “It’s kind of overwhelming when people come in to pick the right cat.”
Patrick decided to adopt Momma the cat who had been there for 12 long tedious years.
But that was not a problem to Patrick. He asked the staff which cat had stayed there the longest. They took him right to Momma.
“We all love her, but we want her to have a home,” Bennett said.
“I just think they deserve a home at some point in their life,” Priest said. “As well as we try to treat them here, it’s still not the same as having the individual attention and the love they get in a home.”
Despite her later age, Momma has perks of her own.
“She walked in there like she owned the place and she’d been there her whole life,” he added.
“Every time I see her, she looks at me and she starts purring,” he said. “She’s grateful to be in a home, but I’m grateful to have her because she brings me a lot of joy.”
She has not stopped purring since the day she arrived at her new home with her new forever human. She is happy now and shows her gratitude to her human each and every day for taking her in.
She’d waited for that day a long, lonely time.
