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\u201cHe was clearly depressed,\u201d Keeling told The Dodo. \u201cBut he also had this big personality that was not meant to be caged.\u201d ALYSSA KEELING<\/p>\n Though Otie\u2019s dour disposition at the shelter may have turned off some potential adopters, assuming he would be an unfriendly pet, Keeling decided to\u00a0open her heart to him. She soon discovered Otie\u2019s true nature.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen he was finally in his new home, it\u2019s like a switch flipped. Otie came to life,\u201d Keeling said.<\/p>\n She put together this adorable video to show Otie\u2019s transformation \u2014 a heartwarming demonstration of what love can do to a sad shelter cat:<\/p>\n Otie has blossomed.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s all thanks to Keeling\u2019s ability to see past his sadness at the shelter.<\/p>\n ALYSSA KEELING<\/p>\n Though Otie certainly has a lot to be thankful for, it\u2019s Keeling who feels like the\u00a0lucky one.<\/p>\n \u201cLooking back on all the pictures and videos I have of him in his cage, I\u2019m just so grateful he\u2019s here with me, that I get to be the one to love him, and that he\u2019s living his best, silliest, quirkiest life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To see Otie now, cozy and purring, you might never guess he was once just another\u00a0sad cat\u00a0in search of a happy home. But that\u2019s exactly how his mom, Alyssa Keeling, found him while on a visit to her local animal shelter. \u201cHe was clearly depressed,\u201d Keeling told The Dodo. \u201cBut he also had this big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[66,106,107],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funny-cats","tag-cats","tag-funny","tag-funny-cats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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