Charlie

Meet Charlie Some cats wait to be rescued.

Charlie had other ideas.

One evening, this beautiful brown tabby appeared outside one of our foster's windows, looked inside... and essentially announced that she'd be moving in. She came back day after day, patiently waiting to be invited inside, as if she'd already made up her mind that this was where she belonged.

We were certain someone had to be missing her. We searched, posted her everywhere, checked for a microchip—but no one came forward. She wasn't microchipped, wasn't spayed, and no one claimed this remarkable little girl.

Their loss is someone else's incredible gain.

Charlie is everything her name suggests: confident, independent, charming, and effortlessly cool. She has a way of making herself at home wherever she goes and wins people over without even trying. She's affectionate without being needy, playful without being wild, and has the kind of e...