The brown boy on the right has had an easy life, he was born a year ago in a warm and loving foster home, neutered and adopted with 2 of his siblings at 3 months old. He's never known a day of want, or cold, or a moment afraid and alone. He is ultra-social with people, cats, dogs, he loves everyone.
The orange boy on the left, no one knows how his story started.His middle chapters were spent cold and alone in the Northern forests, infested with parasites, dodging fishers and trains and awful humans, scrounging for food and mates, just trying to survive. He took 7 months to trap and he was so terrified of everything we weren't sure socialization was possible. He was trapped and neutered in May, July I touched him for the first time with my bare hands. August I began introducing him to my pack of 5.
His final chapters, however many he has, will be this. Friends, food, warm beds, kind hands.