"I like to go to the shelter and grab a cat that has been in the shelter a long time, an adult. I grabbed this big mess of a cat; he was really skinny and was completely shaved. I brought him home to foster and took him to the vet, where the vet told me he was in heart failure and that he had three to six months to live. Hearing that news, Howard and I adopted him immediately, and we said we were going to love him until his last breath.
"Soon after Yoda — Howard named him Yoda — soon after we adopted him, we had a brand new litter of kittens in the foster room. One day Yoda followed me into the foster room, and something magical happened. He entered the room and he started taking over as the foster papa to all of the babies. He started grooming them, he made sure they would eat, he would reprimand them if they were being bad. If they left the foster room, he would get on his hind legs and corral them back in.
"Over the course of a few months, I had to continually take him to the vet. His heart was getting stronger and stronger. Now a year later, he has no detection of having any type of problem with his heart. It is completely gone. He is a medical miracle and I truly believe love and purpose healed his heart."
