Caturday: 🐾 Adopt a Senior Pet: Grace at the Edge of Time
Tissou begging 🐾 Adopt a Senior Pet: Grace at the Edge of Time November is Adopt a Senior Pet Month—a time to honor the quiet, resilient companions who wait in shelters and barns, often overlooked, often misunderstood. They come with stories. They come with scars. But they also come with grace. Senior cats may arrive with feral habits, like our 14-year-old Tiger—named aptly, feared gently, and now, after years of distance, allowing himself to be held. These transformations are slow, sacred, and deeply earned. Some are nearing the Rainbow Bridge, and what they need most is not a cure, but a companion. Someone to walk with them toward the light. Someone to say, “You mattered.” Yes, there are challenges: Behavioral quirks from years of survival—habits that soften with patience. Health costs that rise with age—though some pet insurance plans do cover seniors, and Care Credit offers flexible veterinary credit, often increasing limits to meet emergency needs. Emotional vulne...