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Driving home from a soccer game, my son and I saw a cat casually strolling across Berkeley Avenue. (thus, his name) I jumped out of my truck and stopped traffic. Berk walked right up to me when I called him, and jumped right into our truck, where he instantly made himself comfortable and started to clean himself.

After nearly two hours of going door to door to try and find his owner (with no success), we started to call around to the police, animal control, and any shelter I could think of, and the answer was the same... nope, no reports of a lost cat.

Animal control came to pick him up for the mandatory seven-day waiting period to see if he was claimed. The shelter was overcrowded, and Berk was at risk of being put down if he was not adopted at the end of the seven-day wait.

I wouldn't have the money for the adoption fee until the ninth day, so my son and I called the shelter every day, sometimes twice a day. He was a "teenaged" cat and kind of funny-looking (because of scarring of his ears due to untreated infections). I knew that shelter cats like that don't have much success getting adopted. After the fourth day, the staff eased my mind by telling me that Berk would be safe. They knew that we wanted to give him a fur-ever home.

On the ninth day, when I walked into the shelter, there was a kennel cage with his name on it, but no Berk inside. I started to cry, afraid that I was too late. Then, a staff member told me that after the first day, Berk was so sweet to everyone and the other cats that they let him roam free in the whole cat area.

That was two years ago. Since then, Berk has been nothing but a source of joy to our family. That goofy-looking kitty found his fur-ever home!

Story submitted by Kimberly Sarcinello from Beachwood, New Jersey.

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