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When You Hear Why Nobody Wants This Poor Abandoned Cat You’ll Scream

Remember the classic commercial with the line, “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful”?

It’s sad that we live in a world that puts so much emphasis on appearance, isn’t it?

Make someone a few pounds overweight, give them frizzy hair, a limp, or a speech impediment and soon they’ll be saying, “Don’t hate me because I’m NOT beautiful!”

It’s the same for animals, unfortunately. Everyone in the rescue field knows that a black dog or cat in a kill shelter likely won’t make it out alive, for example.

One ginger cat at the Clermont County Animal Shelter knows all about being passed over because of her appearance.

Scarlet was living on the streets after being declawed and abandoned. Being declawed left her with no way to defend herself.

So when she showed up on someone’s porch and pawed relentlessly at their door until they noticed her, she was covered in wounds and scars.

She was not only looking for a safe haven, she was desperately looking for someone to love her.

…and sadly, she still is.

She’s been at the shelter ever since she arrived over a year ago. Luckily, it’s not a high kill shelter or she would have been euthanized months ago.

She’s seen a lot of changes come and go at the shelter. She watched the shelter be taken over by the Clermont Animal CARE Humane Society, which held a big adoption event to celebrate the new management.

Over half of the animals in the shelter were adopted out — but not Scarlet.

Is there anything wrong with her? Is she sick? Disabled? Horrible temperament?

Not at all. Her only fault is that she’s 9 years old, has walked some hard roads in her life and isn’t the perky young spotted kitten that potential adopters always fall in love with.

But nobody at the shelter can figure out exactly why no one has fallen in love with Scarlet. They all adore her.

Source: The Dodo

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Benjamin Stephen Dutka is a journalist, writer and editor with over two decades of experience. He has worked with three newspapers and eight online publications, including the Norwich Bulletin, Hartford Courant, Booktrib.com, AskMen.com, and PoiseMedia, Inc. He also won a Connecticut short story contest entitled Art as Muse, Imaginary Realms, and has a penchant for rowing, reading, video games, and Objectivism.

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