Cat from Fairplay {USA}

If you're ever in Fairplay, Colorado, you should go to High Paws Pet Supplies so you can meet its resident feline: Andre the Giant Cat. 

The slightly cross-eyed feline was found as a stray in downtown Colorado and brought to Cat Casita, a no-kill cat shelter run by Animal Rescue of the Rockies.

Andre only weighed less than 20 lbs at the time, which was far too little for his huge frame (30 inches from his head to the base – not the tip – of this tail).

High Paws Pet Supplies owner Miyuki Takeda and store manager Kerrie Lynn fell in love with Andre and decided that he should become the official store cat.

They nursed him back to health, and Andre now weighs a whopping 28 lbs.

Everyone wants to know why Andre is so big, but without knowing his origins, there's not a clear answer. Takeda thinks Andre may have Savannah in him – those are huge cats.

"Within a month of us having him, people from all over Colorado, and even other states, were coming in to see him and to visit," says Takeda.

Though Andre was shy at first, he has learned to love the amount of attention he gets from customers.

He even uses his handsome looks and humongous size to promote his feline friends looking for forever homes at Cat Casita.

Takeda explains that many of the store's customers fall in love with Andre at the store, and then they end up meeting other adoptable felines at the Cat Casita shelter, which shares the same building as High Paws Pet Supplies. 

Since Andre has free rein inside the building, he often goes downstairs, to Cat Casita, to interact with the shelter cats and to introduce them to "his human customers."

Since the store adopted this larger-than-life cat, adoptions have skyrocketed at Cat Casita.

Source: Denver Post

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