#tocats

My pick for Cat of the Week is an adorable bonded pair, Purrmintaor and Jerry.  Like his name implies, Purrminator is a purring machine.  You simply have to walk into the room and he starts up his little purring motor.  Jerry is a laid back adult male but more importantly, is Purrminator’s best friend / soul mate.  When Jerry was brought to the shelter he was surrendered with one of his littermates, Tom.  Tom and Jerry were housed together but the staff at TAS soon found that Purrminator kept sneaking into the brothers’ room to hang out with them every chance he got.  Not wanting to get in the way of a budding bromance, they moved Purrminator in with Tom and Jerry and the rest, as they say, is history.  Tom was adopted and soon after Jerry and Purrminator thought they were headed to their forever home by some kind adopters who wanted to keep the two best buds together.  Unfortunately Purrminator and Jerry were in for a period of bad luck – their adopters faced an unexpected international move and they were brought back to the shelter.  Worse still, Jerry caught a upper respiratory tract virus and had to be quarantined.  Purrminator worried alone in his room while staff and volunteers tried to cheer him up with pets, toys, and treats, but were mostly unsuccessful.  After a difficult battle Jerry managed to fight the virus off and could be returned to Purrminator.  The two are so happy to be reunited that you rarely catch one even a few feet from the other.  If you come by the shelter you’re likely to see the two of them curled up together, with Purrminator giving Jerry a hug.