“It’s his world!”
Published on Dec 18, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Chico was found as a stray in 2019, and as soon as he was adopted, he got used to living the good life immediately.
“A friend of mine found him crying at his apartment door and called me for help,” Tori Roman, Chico’s mom, told The Dodo. “I took him in since I just moved into my own apartment. He’s a street cat turned spoiled indoor cat.”
He’s now very used to getting what he wants — and his favorite thing to ask for is his velvet clothes hanger.
One day when his parents were doing laundry, Chico discovered the one velvet clothes hanger the couple owned and decided he was obsessed with it. From that moment on, every time the couple did laundry, they’d give Chico the hanger to play with. Pretty soon, he started searching their closet for it. It became his singular obsession.
“Our closet door is always open and we typically have to pull him away from sorting through the hangers … or give in and take off the article of clothing the velvet hanger has so Chico can play with it,” Roman said. “It’s his world!”
One day, tragedy struck. Chico’s pittie brother, Murphy, wanted to see what it was like playing with the velvet hanger — and accidentally destroyed it. Chico sat on the closet floor, staring up at the hangers, trying to find his beloved velvet one. When Chico’s aunt asked what he wanted for Christmas, Roman sent her a video of Chico sitting under the hangers and let her know his one request.
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This year, Christmas came early — and Chico was reunited with his velvet hanger again.
“Merry Christmas to Chico,” Roman said in a video on TikTok.
The velvet hanger has actually been destroyed by Murphy a couple of times, but it’ll always get replaced. Roman’s husband actually hates the velvet hangers, but the couple keeps buying them anyway. After all, Chico would be lost without it.
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When Happy Compromise Farm + Sanctuary needed to relocate out of Oregon, they found the perfect property in New York — and were surprised to learn that it came with a single cow named Miriam.
“The New York property was a meat CSA before we moved the sanctuary there, and the owners offered us Miriam when they weren’t able to load her up for slaughter,” Eryn Leavens, executive director of Happy Compromise Farm + Sanctuary, told The Dodo. “We jumped at the chance to take her in as our first cow resident. When we arrived at the new property after a cross-country trip with 100 rescued animals, she was the only animal on the property. It felt like she had been waiting for us to arrive.”
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“Her only experience with humans had been terrible, so she assumed we would be the same,” Leavens said. “However, she was very interested in the other animals we brought with us, particularly the alpacas. Seeing that they trusted us seemed to build her trust in us.”
Miriam’s new humans spent hours and hours putting in the work to win her over, and it slowly paid off. They made lots of promises about how her new life would look, and one by one, they made those promises come true.
“When we first met Miriam, we promised her that she would eventually have cow friends and that we would get her a shelter,” Leavens said. “She had been sleeping in the woods for the first five years of her life, so our first big move was to buy her a shelter. A few months later, we received a request for help with a two-year-old Jersey cow named Penelope … We said we would take her, and she became Miriam’s best friend immediately.”
Miriam absolutely adored all of the other animals at the sanctuary, but finally having another cow was incredibly special. She and Penelope were inseparable from the moment they met — and still are to this day.
Now, Miriam has a whole herd of rescued cows living with her at the sanctuary, and she couldn’t be happier. She’s learned to love and feel safe around her humans, too, and follows them around constantly. She went from being scared and alone to having more love than she knows what to do with, and her humans are so thrilled they could make her dreams come true.
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