A 40-pound cat named Patches has been adopted just 1 working day after a Virginia animal shelter place an adoption advertisement for him.
Richmond Animal Treatment and Regulate in Virginia shared a Facebook put up Wednesday introducing Patches and contacting for anybody intrigued in adopting him to get to out to the shelter.
“Did you wake up right now and say, ‘let’s undertake the greatest cat any person has at any time seen’? If so, we have the cat for you. 😻,” the shelter stated in their article.
According to Richmond Animal Treatment and Regulate, Patches is a healthful cat irrespective of his additional pounds.
Courtesy of Kay Ford
“Fulfill Patches all 40.3 Kilos of him! He is been controlled to a pretty specific diet regime, is on an exercise approach and is extremely sweet. He is neutered, analyzed, chipped and ready to go right now!” the shelter continued, before inquiring opportunity adopters to share their details and commit to serving to Patches “get to a harmless and heathy excess weight.”
Soon after they shared the article, RACC told “GMA” they been given hundreds of inquiries — from Maine to California — from people today interested in the feline.
Patches the cat is on a distinctive food plan and exercising system, according to Richmond Animal Care and Handle.
Richmond Animal Treatment & Command
The shelter inevitably decided that one intrigued bash — a nearby girl named Kay Ford — would be Patches’ new proprietor.
Ford told “GMA” when she to start with uncovered of Patches, she knew it was meant to be.
Kay Ford adopted Patches the cat previously this week right after seeing a image of the 40-pound cat in a social media publish shared by Richmond Animal Care and Command in Richmond, Virginia.
Courtesy of Kay Ford
“My daughter despatched me the [social media] post yesterday morning and she claimed … ‘This is your second.’ And I clicked on the photo and I went, ‘Oh my gosh, I have to have Patches. I just have to have Patches,'” Ford recalled, including that she ‘immediately contacted” the shelter and was able to end by the shelter for a go to that exact same working day.
“When I rounded the corner at Richmond Animal Treatment and Handle, to see him on his mattress, on the floor, I just was like, ‘Oh, my Lord.’ He’s like … half of a whiskey barrel. Let us place it that way,” Ford said.
The grandmother of two said she’s seeking forward to supporting Patches drop some bodyweight.
“It can be going to be a very very long course of action, extremely prolonged process, because he cannot drop extra than a pound a month and far more like between a fifty percent a pound and a pound a month. So if he needs to lose 20, 25 kilos, it really is going to be a extended journey,” Ford said.
But aside from his excess weight, RACC explained Patches is a healthy cat.
“He is quite easy to fall in adore with,” Ford extra. “I really come to feel incredibly blessed that I was the decided on one.”
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