Leo (formally named Toby) is a H2H rescue kitty. We adopted him in August of 2018. Our home wouldn't be the same without him. He has a big personality and we absolutely love him for all of his quirks. He is our snuggle bug and our 2 other cats also adore him. I feel so lucky we ended up with Leo.

Here's how we ended up for Mr. Leo: In 2018, my husband and I bought our first home. We brought with us our 2 rescue kitties, Gray Bear and Monkey. My friend rescued them from the ACCT at just a week old. They needed to be bottle-fed around the clock and needed a foster ASAP or would be euthanized. My friend stepped up. Unfortunately my friend's cat did not take to the 2 little cute kittens. Which is how we ended up fostering them. Evidently, it was a big foster fail for us. Anyway, before moving to our first house, my husband and I lived with my parents, the 2 cats (GB and Monk), and their 2 dogs. Gray Bear and Monkey LOVED the dogs. When we moved, we quickly noticed Gray Bear went into a depressed state. He is a very social cat, whereas Monkey is very sweet but more of a loner. We knew we had to do something to cheer our boy up.

Growing up, my family had an orange cat named Buzzy. He was a dream cat. Boss of the neighborhood and sweetheart to our family. Buzzy was a part of my life from 4th grade until his last days when I was in my mid-twenties. I was devastated when we lost Buzzy and vowed to rescue another orange cat of my own.

And this is how we ended up with Leo... it started with a trip to Pet Valu to pick up cat food, to then getting smacked by an orange paw reaching out of the rescue cat crate, to us falling in love. I will never forget how inquisitive and rambunctious he was in his crate. When I met him, I just knew he would be the perfect addition to our little family. I will never forget, the woman who ran the Spring House Pet Valu could tell that we would be a good fit and quickly passed our application along to Sharon. While we waited for approval, I went away for the weekend with my mom and sister while my husband stayed at home with Gray Bear and Monkey. He told me he would be prepping around the house in case we were approved for the little orange kitten from Pet Valu. I had no idea while I was away that Sharon called my husband and told him that he could come and pick up Leo. My husband surprised me by picking Leo up while I was away. He recounts the first moments Leo walked into our house as this.... Leo knew he was home. He acted as if he lived there all along. My husband had friends over for a game night and the entire time Leo tried to sit on everyone's laps and be the center of attention. The next day, I returned and found a cute little kitten greeting me at the front door. He still does this to this day. We call him our little cat-dog. That evening, Leo fell asleep in my arms, craddled like a baby and I knew it was all meant to be. It only took a few days before our two other cats were snuggled up with Leo. Leo being the faciliator of all cuddles with both. Gray Bear's days of depression were immediately over and he had a new friend to play with.

Leo thinks my husband is the best human ever and I still think remembers dad bringing him home that day. Leo's favorite hobbies are bringing us pineapple toys (we have 5 toys that are all exactly the same - pineapples - and he treats them like prizes as if he killed a bird and brought it to us), chattering to us, stealing broccoli, cuddling non-stop, wrestling his cat brothers, grooming all cats and humans in our home, playing "smack attack" with his paw that pops out in all locations he can hide, sunbathing, and chasing our dog. He is a spunky guy with a HUGE personality. He makes life so much fun and our home whole.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for picking us to adopt Leo

We had Cheeto and Chet since 2004 and adopted Tony from Hart 2 Heart in 2018. We had to put Chet down in May 2021 which was crushing for our whole family. We knew Cheeto wouldn't be far behind. 

Cheeto was, obviously, an orange guy. The stereotypical special orange guy. For the longest time my wife insisted we had to get another orange guy for Cheeto to show the ways of being orange. As silly as that sounds, orange cat owners know what we're talking about. Anyway, over months we would see orange cats on Hart 2 Heart's page but timing was never right. Then we saw Morris in January 2022 and we knew we had to look. We went down and there he was laying in the same position Cheeto always laid. It was a done deal the second we laid eyes on him. 

As we were contacting Sharon and trying to get store assistance we were looking at the other cats and there was Lindsey. Fourteen years old, she melted our hearts. Then Sharon told us her story (or what she knew). We felt like no one would want a frightened fourteen year old cat and it just broke us into tears. 

So we came home with two cats that day. It did our hearts right to give them both a home, especially Lindsey. 

Then five months later Tony got sick and we put him down on 6/13. Cheeto followed three weeks later on 7/2. To say this house was devastated would be an understatement. We knew Cheeto wasn't long for the world but poor Tony got sick and deteriorated in less than a month. It was awful. 

We say all the time that we don't know what we would've done without Morris and Lindsey. The amount of tears that have been shed were much easier to dry with those two. It's the old cliche, we rescued them but in the end they have rescued us. For real. 

Thank you Hart 2 Heart for bringing so much love and joy to our house.