Experiencing loss — for humans and pets alike — is a visceral experience with visible side effects. For one mother, a rescue cat named Mickey, a deep hole in her heart was filled when shelter affiliates helped her find adoptive kittens after she lost her own litter to health complications.
Shortly after giving birth to a litter of kittens, Mickey became sick with an upper respiratory infection. Because she was nursing, her kittens were infected through her milk and weren’t strong enough to survive without a healthy mother. Despite the best efforts of the shelter where she was taken in, Mickey lost her litter. She was heartbroken.
But as one of the shelter affiliates in the video below says, sometimes the universe gives you a gift. Shortly after Mickey recovered, the shelter received a motherless litter of kittens. Testing whether they’d take to Mickey, the rescuers introduced the little ones to the curious cat. They immediately fell in love, and Mickey became their surrogate mother.
We’ve seen this incredible miracle of adoption before, but Mickey’s story has a unique feeling of universal meaning — that possibly this litter and mama were meant for each other all along. At that moment, both were made for each other.
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