I decided to adopt the handicapped cat I sponsored at a Missouri shelter

Posted April 1, 2017    By Barbara Partyka

I first “met” Cupcake when I received a newsletter from a no-kill shelter in Buffalo, Missouri. She was one of the featured cats who were ready to be sponsored. She was a one-year-old Calico Manx. Immediately I fell in love and knew I was going to sponsor her.

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Not only was Cupcake beautiful, but she was also handicapped. The shelter didn’t know what had happened to her, but she didn’t have full use of her back legs and couldn’t jump. I started sponsoring her right then. A friend of mine was associated with this shelter and told me how everyone who came to the shelter thought Cupcake was adorable but no one wanted a handicapped cat.

I told my friend if she could get Cupcake to me, I’d take her. At that time I was living in Northern California. Well, that summer my friend (who lived in Southern California went to the Missouri shelter to help out for a couple of weeks. When she left, she took Cupcake with her.

They drove from Missouri to Southern California where my friend kept Cupcake for a couple of weeks. And fell in love with her. But my friend kept her promise and drove her up to Northern California where my beautiful Cupcake joined the family.

For some reason, I just knew Cupcake was meant to be mine. She is loving, feisty, and as sweet as can be. I am so grateful to have this little girl in my life.

Barbara

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7 thoughts on “I decided to adopt the handicapped cat I sponsored at a Missouri shelter”

  1. Cupcake is gorgeous. She has luminous eyes, and looks gentle yet so vivacious. Cats are amazing
    souls!🐾💜💜

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  2. Bless you all. Cats don’t know they’re supposed to be handicapped. The handicapable cats (and dogs) we’ve had over the years brought such love and joy to oue lives. I have 4 deaf ferals at this time. They don’t know they are missing out on anything.

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  3. It could be she has a genetic defect in her spine if as you stated she is part Manx/Calico. God Bless You for Loving her because she is 24/7 long term care and can not be left with just any ordinary babysitter. You are an angel****

    Eva say’s

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    • A few years after I adopted her, my vet had to take x-rays of her. He said that her back had been broken. In a way it was a “lucky” break because any different and she would have been paralyzed. The shelter took her in when she was one so she was very young when it happened. As far as she is concerned, there is nothing wrong with her. 🙂

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      • We have a handicapped kitty named Sealy. He lost his ear to a car fan belt and it left him with brain damage. He thinks he’s perfectly normal. His appetite is what kept him alive.

        Cats don’t learn to complain the way we humans do. In a way I think they’re tougher than us.

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        • Elisa, you are Sealy’s Mom?! I recently “met” Sealy on Facebook. He has the most mesmerizing eyes. I love black kitties. 🐾💜💜

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