Carrots the blind therapy cat

Carrots, a white and ginger furball of love, is recognized with the United Kingdom’s prestigious Blue Cross Medal for his healing services.

Providing plenty of reassuring head bunts and fluffy tail flicking is quite honorable service, especially during trying times. Carrots, a blind therapy cat in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, received the Blue Cross Medal for his work with residents in the Marie Curie Hospice.

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Carrots, now four years old, is one of the few cats to receive the award.

Born with an eye defect, he’s the only blind therapy cat in the United Kingdom, and the only therapy cat within the Marie Curie Hospice facilities in the country.

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Overflowing with heart-led compassion and fuzzy cuddles, Carrots is often requested by patients who are ill or in palliative care at the center, especially when they’re anxious or depressed.

Carrots loves visiting patients and settles beside them so that they can stroke him and listen to him purr.

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During much of the pandemic, Carrot’s trips to the hospice center were curtailed, so his mom helped him write letters to the residents, “which he signs with a paw print, of course!” she said.

Carrots is head of the welcoming committee at Lloyd’s rescue organization and the top model of its 2021 calendar. Its motto? “Carrots sees with his heart—love is blind!”

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This snuggly ginger care ambassador handles fame in stride, even as the star of a Marie Curie promotional video!