In Quebec, Canada, on Valentine’s Day 2020, a woman saw a big cat pawing at her window in the snow.
She called her local cat shelter, Un Chat a la Fois, and rescuer Marie Simard set to work to get him back to health.
Simard said: It broke my heart to see him so I told her to take the cat to the vet and less than 30 minutes later he was at our partner clinic. He entered the carrier by himself and when he got to the vet, he was very easygoing, he let the vet do the checkup, the blood test, and the X-rays, and the cat was not feral at all.
Due to its friendly nature, it was initially thought that the cat was lost, but he didn’t have a microchip and hadn’t been neutered.
She continues: We thought it had been abandoned by irresponsible owners. We have a lot of cats who have been abandoned by people – people who can’t afford to pay the vet care. We checked everywhere for a missing cat but we found nothing.
They named the abandoned cat Aslan after the lion in the Chronicles of Narnia series but were worried he might not pull through.
Marie thinks Aslan might not have survived the harsh winter if he hadn’t asked for help at the time. She was therefore overjoyed when he was able to be cared for in a real home.
Marie said: Aslan has a special diet because of his diabetes, but he likes to eat! In fact, his mother has to be very careful with her own plates because Aslan would not hesitate to steal her food.
Sometimes she makes an exception and offers him a treat. “Aslan is a very affectionate cat. He forgot his outdoor life, he doesn’t try to go outside. He likes to sleep on her pillow and he likes to cuddle.
