This Cat Needs A New Home After Living In A [South Carolina] Home Depot For 13 Years

The Consumerist ^ | January 21, 2014 | Mary Beth Quirk

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The world was Depot’s oyster, and that world is the Home Depot. See, Depot is a cat and her home is Home Depot (try saying that three times fast). She’s lived in a South Carolina store for 13 years, but that life of trolling for pests, snuggling up with paint cans and greeting workers in the morning is about to end. She’s getting the boot after triggering the store’s security alarms one time too many.

Management says her adventures in the garden section will need to come to an end, reports WTOC, because she sets off the alarms at night. That means it’s time to find her a home, and some customers are upset that she’s getting evicted.

“Being an animal lover, I’d get rid of management before I’d get rid of the cat,” one customer told the news station.

Despite a petition on Change.org asking to let Depot stay, it’s not like she’ll be kicked out on her furry, adorable behind. Home Depot officials have said they won’t throw her out until someone steps up to adopt her.

If you live near Bluffton, S.C. and need a new furry friend, check out the contact info for the store in the source link below.

[jch10]

So sorry. Dwell on all those wonderful memories.....and look for a new kitty soon.

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Got it in one.

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I’m sorry. May she rest in peace.

[Celtic Conservative]

thank you. I've already got some ideas about asking vets for the names of cat owners whose cats just littered. I won't do it soon but summertime,maybe? I can never replace my scooter. whatever cat I get next will choose me and by their behaviors or personality will suggest their own names. It's a tradition that I have started with the cats I have now. they tell me if they want to go home with me and they suggest their own names.

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[Celtic Conservative]

She went peacefully, with me and my ex-wife by her side(she started out as the wife's cat.) God, how fast she went downhill. Just tears your guts out, how they look at you as if to say "fix me dad!" and to know for all the world you can't. Sorry, screen got blurry there for a minute.

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[fieldmarshaldj]

Condolences on your loss. I had to have my eldest put down 8 months ago short of her 14th birthday (from oral cancer).

[afraidfortherepublic]

She’s beautiful — all black and sleek. Just purrfic!

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Gotta love Basement Cats.