Looking at Haru, a sweet tortoiseshell born in late 2007, you may be reminded of Margaret Keane's paintings of big-eyed, sad children that became famous in the 1960s. Haru is a little thing, just over 3.5 kilograms. Her green eyes do seem disproportionately large for her small body.
Those eyes also reflect the sadness that is her story, of a waif that never really found a family — at least not one that called her one of their own. She has languished at the shelter for much too long.
Haru came to ARK when her first owner died. She had been adopted once but when those owners left the country, they brought her back, as if she were something of a rental cat, never really meant to belong, perhaps adopted “just for fun.”