Theron wasn’t exuberant like most people who walk through the door of the Bangor Humane Society looking to adopt a new pet.
The Maine man told shelter staff he’d resigned himself to adopting a new cat after his Cutie Pie, a gray-and-white medium hair kitty, went missing. He told the staff he hoped bringing home a new feline friend would help “heal his heart.”
Staffers showed him to the section where they housed the adoptable cats so he could browse at his leisure.
“As he perused the kennels, he stopped to examine one of our friends a little more closely and when the cat turned to face him, Theron erupted with joy. THIS WAS HIS CUTIE PIE!!” the shelter’s staff wrote in a Facebook post on Friday.
The staff had no reason to doubt him, but even if they did, Theron had ample proof: Like any human who loves his or her cat, Theron’s smartphone was a virtual gallery of photos of the little guy.
“Theron’s camera roll was full of pictures of Cutie Pie,” shelter staff wrote, “leaving no question that this reunion was the real deal!”
For his part, Cutie Pie must have had quite the ordeal and couldn’t wait to go back to his real home with his human.
“Let me just say I’ve honestly never seen a cat so eager to be in a cat carrier!” shelter staff wrote on Facebook. “He was SO ready to go home!”
I really don’t like to think of the possibility of Bud going missing, but if he did and we found ourselves in a situation similar to the one Theron and Cutie Pie found themselves in, the reunion wouldn’t be nearly as happy or tear-inducing.
“Oh my God! It’s Buddy! Buddy, it’s really you! I’m so glad I found you!”
“Get me out of this cage this very instant! These people are crazy! Do you realize they have not fed me turkey once since I’ve been here?!? Not once! And these accommodations! A bathroom and a food bowl within five feet of each other. Unthinkable! They’ve put me in with the riff-raff, as if I’m a common cat and not a king! I demand to speak with the manager! Actually, nevermind…I demand you take me home this very instant, feed me turkey, give me a massage, and then summon the manager so I can give her a piece of my mind! You’re going to have to make this up to me, you know. I expect the treat cabinet to be restocked with all manner of yums, including Temptations. I had to sleep on a pad. A pad! I tried to tell them, I said ‘I only sleep on top of my Big Buddy!’ And they wouldn’t listen. These people are torturous! I swear, when I get home…”
Pain In The Bud 
One Summer years ago, my cat Jelly Bean escaped (he was an indoor cat) and disappeared. It was 100+ the next 9 days and after 3 days, my family and friends told me that I need accept he is gone. I made flyers and put them around the neighborhood. On Day 9, I was in my bathroom and a family member said to come down stairs because they had a surprise for me. Thinking it was a new kitten, I reluctantly began to go down the steps. Then I heard meowing which I recognized immediately to be Jelly Bean’s! He was home! Someone had seen the flyer and recognized Jelly Bean to be the cat the neighbors had been feeding. They called our house and immediately my dad went to pick him up. He was about 3 miles from home in another neighborhood. His collar had been lost and he was not micro chipped. It was a miracle! This is a great story about Cutie Pie, completely reminded me of Jelly Bean’s return home.
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I’m glad you got your little Jelly Bean back. Your family and friends were telling you to accept he was gone after only three days?!? God help me if I ever lost Bud. I would be despondent, no matter how much of a jerk he can be at times.
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Yeah they were like “oh he’s dead, he got eaten, he couldn’t have survived this heat.” But they were wrong!
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I just love that photo of Buddy! Is that his Blue Steel look?
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Either that or his “Feed me right now or there’s gonna be trouble!” look.
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The Blue Steel Look, from the movie “Zoolander”.
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