An Update on Boots the Cat, Saved from Being Euthanized After Death of Owner

Back in April I reported on Boots, an eleven-year-old feline saved from being euthanized after the death of her owner: Provision of Will Requesting Cats Owned at Death Euthanized Found Invalid. I am now happy to report that Boots will not be spending the rest of her nine lives at a no-kill shelter, instead she has been adopted by Diane Maxwell of Missouri. Apparently there were 27 people interested in adopting Boots, but Ms. Maxwell, who is a cousin of Jeff Schmidt, a Fifth Third Bank senior vice president and personal trust director who was instrumental in saving Boots, became the lucky new owner, on Independence Day nonetheless.

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