This is Tyrone. http://imgur.com/EX6DlIE

Tyrone is my rescue that is 7 or 8 years old now. He was estimated to be 3 or 4 when I adopted him.

He already had his name and answered to it, so I didn't bother to change it.

He was very skittish and terrified at first when I took him home. He lost control of his bodily functions on the car ride home (he still to this day has a terrible fear of the cat carrier and car, trips to the vet usually result in a bath due to his loss of bodily functions), and then after that scary car ride, he had to receive a bath and obviously that just amplified his fear.

I put him in the bathroom with a bed, litter box and food and water bowl. I left the door cracked, I figured I'd start his world "small" and let him work into the house under his own will.

After a couple of days of seeing him look at me through the door crack, he finally came out and jumped into my lap and we had quite the petting session. He has learned that I am his parent for lack of a better word. He has accepted me as his guardian, protector, parent and friend.

When he gets spooked by something, he has to run to me to be calmed. Thunderstorms and fireworks holidays are bad on him.

He has horrible separation anxiety and if I'm gone from the house for too long, he will sit by the front door until I get home (wife sees it everyday).

If I pull in the driveway and I don't come in right away (finishing a phone call for example), he starts crying until I come in.

When I walk in the door, I have to sit and give him a lap love session lasting anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour, basically until he's had his fill.

He has to be near me at all times when I am home, at the very least in the same room. If I go to the porch and he hasn't made it out there yet, he hangs at the sliding glass door and cries until I let him out with me or come back inside.

He is very needy, very clingy and very affectionate.

I love him and wouldn't have him any other way. Bros for life!