Petey's Long Road

This is a picture of Petey packed up and ready to go to his new home. As you all may know, he went into Foster care last November. Unfortunately, Petey's foster parent did not take care of him as a foster parent should and Petey has grown to not trust people. We definitely suspect that he was abused and by the hands of his foster dad with a broom. It took me with the help of others months to try to get him out of his foster care home. Essentially, his foster parent was holding him hostage. Thankfully, we were able to finally get poor Petey out. The unfortunate part is this once friendly cat is now insanely petrified of people. He would spit hiss and swat and growl if he even saw a human. I had never seen that side of him before and my heart broke. I have had many sleepless nights over this and will continue to do so. A nice woman who has a barn was more then willing to take Petey and a bunch of other cats in to care for them. At this point, after Petey was in a home for so long I felt it was the best option. He will be out of arms way and will hopefully learn to love and trust humans again from a distance and maybe, just maybe in time he will be the Petey he once was. It's for instances like this why shelters and rescues are so hard on adoption interviews. The person who was fostering him actually was associated with a rescue and I personally thought would never do something like this. I was wrong, very, very wrong. Hopefully, now in his new home hours away from the big city lights, I can do right by Petey this time around and he will have another chance. We love you Petey and you will always be with us and I am forever sorry.