This cute kitty spent most of his life as a stray cat until this kind man came into his life and everything started to change.
“Meet Joe, a retired man and former king of the sewers,” reddit user Mykmyk.
“Joe (formerly Hobo Joe) arrived about 3 years ago. He would chilling in the yard, napping on the porch at night, and sit with us when we would go outside to visit (which was common),” he said.
Sometimes Joe would was gone for some days and then came again, following them out on a walk or spending time visiting other houses.
“Most mornings he would make me company to me and the children to the school bus stop, waiting with us, than following me back home. When it got cold outside we put a shelter on the porch for him. I would warm soft towels in the dryer and put them in his house before going to sleep but he became very congested and winter became colder so we let the kitty stay overnight inside. Soon the time between his roaming and returning home got longer.”
“One day he left and after a week we were very concerned. I’d walk around the area looking for him and for weeks I would go outside and call him but still no Joe. We thought the worst. It seems like he had been missing permanently but I kept calling for him often.
Luckily, he finally appeared from nowhere, running to me one afternoon after calling for him. We were so lucky but he looked like he had been in a fight, covered in mud, soaked and was looking very bad. We had already took him to the vet earlier in the year, they loved him, and he healed up from his last dangerous adventure very quickly.”
Joe was now off the streets.
“He was strong as nails years ago, as a stray… I hated that such a good cat had such a hard life and always worried. There was no way we were going to put him back out. He looked fearless but age was catching up to him and he needed to settle into a home.”
Now Joe is strictly an indoor cat. He’s neutered and he’s happy.
“Joe is the perfect and I think he likes us.”
It’s now been 2 amazing years since Joe moved into his permanent home and there’s nowhere else in the world he’s rather be.
