This stuff can mask a marty Taco Bell® visit aftermath. It can handle this cat.
Posted on 04/16/2014 8:05:47 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Cats are surrendered to animal shelters due to any number of owner complaints: clawing up the furniture, fighting with other pets, not liking the owner’s new baby.
But for black-and-white Domestic Shorthair Lenny, who was rescued from a Rochester, New York, park in February and brought to the Scottsville Veterinary Hospital & Adoptions shelter, finding a forever home is something that eluded him for a very unusual reason.
Lenny is one gassy kitty.
Shelter staff thought they’d found a wonderful home for Lenny last month, but after only two days with his new family, they were back at the adoption center to return him.
“He farts all the time,” the family wrote on Lenny’s surrender form.
Lenny’s former owners even recommended the sweet but smelly feline might make a better outdoor cat because the frequency and stench of his intestinal emissions.
And yet once back at Scottsville, staff members like Adoptions Director Jessica Giehl haven’t noticed anything out of the ordinary. All they knew was that Lenny is a great cat.
“But since he’s been back here, there haven’t been any problems,” she tells the Democrat & Chronicle, “but we did still nickname him ‘Smelly Cat.’”
Determined to find this allegedly flatulent feline a forever family, Scottsville staff turned to their Facebook page, hoping to spread the word about Lenny.
“Hello!” the March 31 post begins. “I was returned today because I fart too much. I am hoping I can find a person who can love me even with my stinky farts. I am a 19-month-old neutered male and would love to be your smelly cuddle cat. I am very friendly and love to be petted and held. I even am wearing a tuxedo so I’ll look snazzy if you come to see me.”
More than 150 Likes and 220 shares later, the shelter’s social media site lit up with supportive comments for the positively bubbly Lenny. Many wondered why the owner didn’t try to work with Lenny’s veterinarian to find a better diet. But some simply pointed out how ridiculous it was to part with a pet because of something as trivial as gas.
“What a stupid reason to not give a cat a home,” one commenter wrote. “I have four dogs that fart — deal with it.”
“Best of luck to this handsome guy to find his perfect home with a lot of air fresheners,” another joked.
One Facebook comment came from a woman who might have found an even sillier reason for dropping a cat off at a shelter.
“Just as bad as a woman who returned a kitten to my mom because it didn’t match her carpet,” commenter Tina Korine Phillips replied on Lenny’s post.
Finally, the shelter’s efforts paid off. Lenny found his happy ending Monday when he was adopted by a friendly and decidedly not fart-phobic family.
Awwww, a plummy puppy.
You can’t feed that stuff to a cat!He won’t eat it.The dog on the other hand.....
haha Thanks
No! The EPA is a bitch. With their history and their current obsession with cow farts, how long before they go after cats?
Lenny is a walking advertisement for government intervention at some point. Mark my words!
Give the kitty some Fortiflora. It acts as a probiotic. Or, even some Peptid. We have done both to alleviate gas problems in our cats. Also, get some food that is sensitive to its stomach.
This stuff can mask a marty Taco Bell® visit aftermath. It can handle this cat.
Oh yeah? Oh YEAH? All right, cat, pickled eggs and cheap beer. Take THAT!
That, or get Lenny to start taking Beano.
Sounds like a fun party.
Looks like he could stand to lose some weight.
And try giving him probiotics. They seem to help my cats’ digestion. They eat less and leave less solids in the litterbox after I started giving them probiotics.
Quite possibly. Hard to be sure from that angle, though.
Anyone getting rid of a kitten for that reason should be beaten and farted upon.
All G-D’s critters fart.
I’d adopt him.
He is a beautiful kitteh. I’m glad he has a good forever home now.
I’ll provide the baked beans.
Agreed, and amen.
Our dog's farts are so bad, we have to leave the room. She cut one when I had her in the pickup and it was in the 20s. All four windows were wide open after that for a few minutes.
Not in our house. You can never smell our two kittys gaseous emissions. Our dog, on the other hand, can knock a buzzard off a shitwagon with his SBDs.
Also, when I "rescued" him from my deck he was a full grown cat....I laughed myself silly when I first heard him snore! My gosh it was loud! I didn't know cats snored....
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