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Clingy rescue tabby picks his dad as his person

Wilbur is a little rescue tabby with soulful eyes. Alissa and her husband brought him home as their first cat, and he has had plenty to say ever since. more

The couple went in with one idea about cats. Cats, everyone says, keep to themselves, so they expected a calm, independent pet. They found Wilbur online, a tabby who had been rescued from the wild, and set their hearts on him.

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Alissa and her husband, who expected their first cat to keep to himself.

Then word came that someone else had adopted him, and they were heartbroken. But that adoption was canceled, and Wilbur came home with them after all.

He wasn't the cat they had pictured. Wilbur meowed often and insistently, and he wanted attention almost all the time. Keeping to himself was the last thing on his mind.

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Wilbur in his new home, where he made himself heard from the start.

Mostly he wanted Alissa's husband, and he attached himself to him from the start. The meowing went on at night, too, which worried them at first, since her husband is a med student who needs his rest. Over time the night meows became something they wouldn't trade.

The thing people notice is the look. When Wilbur is with his dad, he gazes up at him as if nobody else were in the room. He has a lot of those looks, and they all go to the same person.

A young adult male singer and female holding a tabby kitten outdoors under clear blue skies; white car partially visible in the background, urban or suburban environment. The headline runs in white letters across the lower third.Save
Wilbur is a little rescue tabby with soulful eyes.

He also seems to know when a day has gone badly, and he comes close and stays. He sits on the counter while they cook and curls up beside them on movie nights. Alissa has ended up the third wheel in her own home, which isn't a bad place to be when the other two are this happy.

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