Both of Penny and Lucy ’s mamma did what was best for the cats when facing animation ’s tough challenges .

The full - roundabout story of Penny and Lucy testify how we never stop screw our pets , even when we front the biggest obstacles of our lives . And while no one ever need to give up our deary , our abstruse hope is that they can find another loving home .

The Pongo Fund , an Oregon charity that fights preferred hunger , partake in the tale on June 4 via a Facebook station . You shouldread the whole affair . It ’s quite touching .

two cat’s snuggling together; full-circle cat adoption

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Cats Penny and Lucy , both 12 , had been with their possessor for 10 twelvemonth after she adopt them from The Pongo Fund . She certainly did n’t want to leave them , but a doc had diagnose her with cancer , the post take . There are things she needs to do in the next year or two — seeing family and friends — so Penny and Lucy needed a fresh home for their own commodity .

" Hard as it was , it was clock time to get them go , " the Emily Post reads .

find a rest home forolder catsisn’t well-situated , but The Pongo Fund had " one lineup to dally " : a woman who , 10 years ago , had to give up her two computerized axial tomography after lose her theatre and marriage . She ’d surveil the establishment since then , even offering to take in bozo who need a safe home .

for certain enough , ( did you see this affecting winding total ? ) she was the one who ’d surrendered Penny and Lucy the first time .

" We call her , " the Facebook post reads . " Told her we had a cat in penury of a home . Two of them , actually . A bond pair . We shared a spot more data . She did n’t have a clew . All at once she stopped talking and started sobbing . That ’s when she do it . "

The two moms met and hug a few days after that phone call , bonding over their love of the same pair of computerized tomography who loved to share a seam .