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My friend and I were browsing in the animal rescue thrift shop when a distraught young man rushed in looking for a place to leave his cat. Even after it was explained that the thrift shop was not a drop-off facility, he still kept insisting.

He feared she was not adoptable and would be euthanized if he left her at the local humane society. He, his wife and a new baby had just driven from Florida to Arizona with his cat and now he couldn't keep her in the apartment they found to rent.

Being a cat person, I spoke up and asked about his cat.

"She is 16 years old and a little touchy," he said.

I thought her chances of finding a new home elsewhere were slim to none, and I was hooked.

So Willow, now named Persnickety, came home with me. A trip to my veterinarian a few days later showed her to be in remarkably good health, and in the last few months, she has proceeded to teach both me and my other cat, an older neutered tom, just who rules the roost and what her rules are. After all, she is 16 and a Siamese.

She is a cuddle cat (on her terms) and has the loudest purr I've ever heard. She loves playing with the "bird on a wand" and leaps and dashes like a kitten. I am constantly amused and amazed. She is loved for just who she is.

Welcome to your forever home, Persnickety.

Story submitted by Nancy Shaul from Yarnell, Arizona.

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