The whole love/hate thing with cats-World's worst up for adoption

[packman]

An animal rescue shelter in North Carolina is being brutally honest in an adoption ad for what it describes as the “world’s worst cat.”

Mitchell County Animal Rescue tells prospective owners exactly what to expect from domestic short-hair mix Perdita in a Facebook listing that is going viral.

The reportedly unfriendly feline likes “staring into your soul until you feel as if you may never be cheerful again,” “lurking in dark corners, being queen of her domicile” and “fooling shelter staff into thinking she’s sick,” it wrote.

Perdita dislikes kittens, dogs, children and hugs but is “ready to be socially awkward with a socially awkward human who understands personal space,” the ad concludes. She is, however, spayed and vaccinated, per a PetFinder listing.

It’s unclear how tongue-in-cheek the shelter is being with its ad. It did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for further information.

But office manager Brittany Taylor told ABC News Perdita is “just all-out awful.”

“She pretends like she wants you to pet her and love on her. As soon as you pick her up, she starts growling. She will swat you,” said Taylor, adding: “She definitely makes you laugh. One minute she wants you, and one minute she’s over it.”

https://www.facebook.com/MitchellCountyAnimalRescue/photos/a.380269162340/10156661879207341/?type=3

(above link provides another to the shelter)

[TomSlick]

1. Her sister lives in my house.

I am unclear what I get for providing food and shelter except the privilege of her gracing the house.

[3catwoman3]

2. We had a cat like this. Her official name was...

...Petruschka. We typically called her Miss Hiss. She’d sit contentedly on your lap, being petted, and then you’d breathe wrong, or commit some other undetectable-to-humans offense, and she’d hiss, swat at you, and run away.

[Freddie]

3. My Samantha was like that too

My daughter brought her home on Mischief Night and she was black and orange, so she had to have a witch’s name. That she was. Most of the time she was ok with us but she HATED our other 2 cats. Never missed an opportunity to hiss and swat at the poor boys.

[DinahMoeHum]

4. Methinks Perdita needs Jackson Galaxy, the cat whisperer.