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Sometimes The Ones Who Wait The Longest Love The Most...

Feline Wellness Today March 14 at 8:00 PM · Almost two years. That's 700 mornings waking up on a shelter floor wondering if today is the day someone stops. Black cats are consistently the last adopted and the first overlooked in shelters across the country. Studies show they wait an average of 30% longer than cats of other colors. Some of it is old superstition. Some of it is that they don't photograph well in dim kennel lighting. And some of it is just the quiet cruelty of being passed over so many times that you stop walking to the front of the cage. But here's what shelter workers will tell you — the ones who waited the longest are often the most devoted. They don't take a warm lap for granted. They don't assume you'll come back. They just stay close. Adopting a senior black cat isn't charity. It's finding the companion everyone else was too distracted to see. If your shelter has a cat who's been there too long, ask about him. That's all it takes. One person who stops. #felinewellnesstoday #blackcatsrule #seniorcatadoption #adoptdontshop #sheltercat

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