Woman wants to get cat from animal shelter: What she then hears hits her unexpectedly
Ontario (Canada) - You want to do something good and get a cat from the animal shelter to give it a nice home. But then everything turned out differently: Krista Lecuyer (33) from Ontario, Canada, was astonished when she and her partner received a rejection letter. But neither of them wanted to accept the animal shelter's reasoning.
Lecuyer, who was pregnant when she wanted to bring the house cat BamBam into her family two years ago, found out that he didn't get along with children or other animals.
Not only because the Canadian was expecting her first child, but also because she already had a cat, the animal shelter turned her down for BamBam. But the pregnant woman was not going to let that sit.
After a few days, she sent an e-mail to those responsible. But Lecuyer only received another rejection from them.
At this point, the cat had already been stuck in the shelter for months, had lost a lot of weight and was suffering from other health problems.
But a few days after the second rejection, Lecuyer's phone rang.
Viral Instagram hit shows the cat's touching happy ending
"One of the animal behaviorists called me and said, yes, we could adopt BamBam if we were willing to make the effort to give him a good home and give him time to acclimate," Lecuyer said in an interview with Newsweek this week.
A short time later, BamBam was at home with the parents-to-be. There they tried for four months to get the house cat used to their other cat Ginny - with success.
Shortly afterwards, the 33-year-old gave birth to her baby girl: "He sat next to my daughter the night she came home from hospital and hasn't left her side since. When she cried, he cried."
Last week, the young family posted an Instagram video retelling the story of BamBam the cat.
The clip quickly went viral and has now received 2.3 million clicks and a good 200,000 likes. What a successful happy ending!