7 Ways A Cat Can Save Your Life #BtC4A

Our first M today is for Motivation. I’m gonna motivate you to get a cat if’n you don’t already have a few. In addition to the halfway point in the Blogging From A to Z Challenge today is a BtC4A day. All month long I’ve been Blogging the Change by spotlighting rescues and adoptable cats. When you adopt a cat from a rescue or shelter, you save three lives: the cat you adopted, another cat who can be pulled from a kill shelter or from the street to take the cage of the cat you brought home and potentially yours. Now I’m gonna give you more reasons to bring home one of my featured cats. The internet is full of stories of hero cats who went above and beyond the call of duty to save their human family.

Healthline came up with seven ways your cat could save your life by just being there. According to the article

• Cats are good for your heart
• Cats may help you quit smoking
• They may help you sleep better
• They may keep you from having to go to the doctor
• Cats may boost your immune system
• Having a cat may prevent strokes
• Cats may calm your nerves and reduce stress although TW says I raise her blood pressure every day. HAH!
• Bonus: cats also may improve your math skills!

Hope I’ve convinced you that if you have a friend or family member who’s not in the best of health, tell them they need a cat.

M can also stand for the Maple Cats. Many of you may remember our last BtC4A featured Ramona and Betty. TW hadn’t seen them in a long time. The other day she saw Ramona, who’s being fed well in the house. She’s grown into a little plumpy cat although she was a lot more skittish.

Each day during the Blogging From A to Z Challenge, I’m featuring an adoptable cat. Do you volunteer at a shelter and want one or more of your cats featured? Contact me by email or on FB or Twitter.

Our M rescue cat is Molly.

Photos © Contra Costa Humane Society

If you love easy-going, gentle senior kitties, Molly is one of the best. Molly’s been a great fit at Kitty Corner from the get-go. She’s a very gentle cat who loves to love! Molly purrs instantaneously and adores being petted. She’s also incredibly smart as within a half hour of getting here she’d learned how to push a door open repeatedly to come explore our office space! (Clearly she wins the battle of the wits as it wasn’t until her fourth effort that we figured out how she was doing it!) Molly is a curious and engaging sweetheart who will make such a wonderful friend for someone.

Molly is estimated to be 10 years of age and is spayed, microchipped, vaccinated and FeLV/FIV negative. She was surrendered to a public shelter when her caretaker realized she had too many cats, and Molly at that point had been living outdoors. It didn’t take her long to settle into life inside however, and we often find her curled up in comfy beds and on cat towers just lounging away. All of our volunteers quickly became smitten with her and when you meet her you’ll readily see why!

If you’re innerested in meeting Molly, visit Kitty Corner during our adoption hours or complete an adoption application and once received and reviewed, we’ll be in contact to discuss her further and potentially set up a meet n’ greet. You can view all the kitties at the Contra Costa Humane Society.

Have you missed any of our Blogging A-Z posts? You can read them here.