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Surrendered “smelly cat” finally finds new home [kitteh has serious gas problem]
Cat Time ^ | April 10th, 2014 | DogTime

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.

Sources: Democrat & Chronicle, Scottsville Veterinary Adoptions Facebook page



TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: flatulence; kittyping
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1 posted on 04/16/2014 8:05:47 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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2 posted on 04/16/2014 8:06:40 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Cat farts are the worst!


3 posted on 04/16/2014 8:07:15 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Slings and Arrows

Smelly cat, oh smelly cat
What have they been feeding you?


4 posted on 04/16/2014 8:10:55 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Operating out of weakness? Imagine if he was working from a position of strength!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

To the people who bailed on Lenny, Karma’s a bitch.


5 posted on 04/16/2014 8:11:32 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Aw, he looks like a sweet old thing. I hope he and his new family will be happy together!


6 posted on 04/16/2014 8:12:01 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: blackdog
To the people who bailed on Lenny, Karma’s a bitch.

Hopefully an odoriferous one.

7 posted on 04/16/2014 8:13:02 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: jocon307; Gefn

He looks a lot like my (non-scented) tomcat.


8 posted on 04/16/2014 8:13:46 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: blackdog

and I hope she comes around soon.

People are downright stupid.


9 posted on 04/16/2014 8:15:02 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Change his diet. Keep changing it till the find something that works. I suspect they feed him canned cat food.


10 posted on 04/16/2014 8:16:40 PM PDT by crz
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Nah. The cat farts I’ve been subjected to aren’t that bad.
Dog farts can be much worse.
MY farts, on the other hand....have been known to peel paint off walls and cause fits of hyper-gagging.


11 posted on 04/16/2014 8:17:30 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: NonValueAdded

Pork and Beans...

Burritos...

baked Beans....Lima Beans...


12 posted on 04/16/2014 8:17:59 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Perfect pet for an older couple, they can all fart together, lol.


13 posted on 04/16/2014 8:19:40 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Slings and Arrows

I have a 2 yr old male Maine Coon (that means HUGE) cat, that is around 22 lbs.

Feed him the cheap stuff for food, and he will run you out of the bedroom at night with his gas. Feed him the good stuff, and no gas.

Funny how that works...


14 posted on 04/16/2014 8:24:32 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: Shadowstrike
As my dog would say as she would lay in the grass out front waiting for the ice cream truck, "Today's treat is tonight's excuse to have the couch all to myself".

If nobody was at home to buy her ice cream, she would run alongside the truck until a neighbor would buy it for her. She would hold the little cup between her paws.

15 posted on 04/16/2014 8:25:50 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: crz; tcrlaf

I feed my crew Iam’s - no gas problems.


16 posted on 04/16/2014 8:26:55 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

That cat needs a diet of mice and gophers.


17 posted on 04/16/2014 8:27:29 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: jocon307

Amen.


18 posted on 04/16/2014 8:27:34 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Shadowstrike

The same dog would lay under the plum tree in August and eat the plums which fell to the ground. The result of twenty or so plums every afternoon was rough on us all.


19 posted on 04/16/2014 8:30:22 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: blackdog

THAT IS SUCH A CUTE STORY!


20 posted on 04/16/2014 8:34:17 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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