Little Dude has his own yellow vest with his name embroidered on it and an ID badge that says Muttville. It is not a costume or a joke: it is his work uniform.
At the Muttville Senior Dog Rescue shelter in San Francisco, this black cat holds the position of Director of Feline Relations. Every morning, he has breakfast, grooms himself, and goes to work. His task is simple but decisive: to approach every new dog and assess how it reacts to a cat, because 40% of families looking to adopt ask exactly that before taking a dog home.
Koreena Walsh, his caretaker, says that Little Dude has it in his blood: he grew up surrounded by dogs from the time he was just 5 weeks old and learned to read their body language like an expert. If a dog approaches too anxiously, he keeps his distance. If it is relaxed, he lets it sniff him without fear. Thanks to that instinct, inherited from Mustache, the cat who paved the way before him, many senior dogs are finally finding a forever home.
