Poor Leonard! PSPCA Wants To Get This Philadelphia Cat Adopted, But People Keep Laughing At His Health Condition

By Joe Brandt, CBS Philadelphia

February 15, 2024

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A Philadelphia cat up for adoption is getting some love on social media despite his health condition that a local shelter says is turning people away.

Leonard is a black-and-white tuxedo cat at PSPCA's Philadelphia shelter. The eight-and-a-half-year-old boy (roughly 50 in human years) is looking to settle down with a loving owner in his middle age.

But Leonard has benign Mast cells - in other words, tumors - growing on his face and ears, which led to a heartbreaking and highly visible plea for his adoption posted on social media on Wednesday, Valentine's Day.

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