Atticus is a 10-year-old Domestic Short-Hair cat in Wilsonville, OR, who needs $600 for tumor removal surgery.

Ten years ago in the town of St Margarets, England, my step-daughter and her mother adopted Atticus (when she was nine years old). Atticus was her first real pet, and she was so beyond excited to introduce an animal into her home, as you can imagine most kids are when adopting an animal. When they went to see him for the first time she remembered him curled up in the corner of the room, just a little black ball of fluff with big blue eyes and a tiny, squeaky meow. It was clear to them at the time that he was quite a timid kitten as he was not used to being held by humans, this was slightly worrying at the time but it did not change their minds about Atticus, they knew it had to be him.