Danielle Schafer was asleep in her apartment one night last month when her cat, Kitty, suddenly pounced on her.

“She jumped on top of me and I woke up,” Schafer said.

 Schafer and Kitty had just recently moved into the apartment in Lansing, New York, while Schafer attends her last year of veterinary school at Cornell University.

The pair have been inseparable since Schafer rescued Kitty five years ago, scooping her up as a feral kitten who was living on the side of the road.

“I wasn’t going to keep her,” Schafer said. “I was going to try to find a good home for her.” 

 But the kitten’s sweet eyes and kind expression won her heart.

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