You have the right to remain cute! Hunky cop is inundated with marriage proposals after he just rescued and adopted kitten
- Baltimore police officer Jon Boyer, 26, regularly drops off stray cats and dogs he finds to the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care ****ter
- But when he brought in an adorable kitty last May, the animal ****ter posted a heart-melting picture of the pair on its Facebook page
- The image received more than 4,000 likes and several hundred comments praising his selfless work — and handsome looks
- Now the officer features in the BARCS ad campaign ‘Show Your Soft Side’ and he has his own Facebook fan page, ‘I love Jon Boyer’
- He adopted the kitty in the picture – Lilly – and has two other cats at home
A hunky Baltimore police officer has been inundated with marriage proposals after a photo of him cuddling a stray Kitten he rescued and then adopted went viral.
Jon Boyer, 26, has always had a soft spot for animals and regularly drops off stray cats and dogs he finds around the city to the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care ****ter. But when he brought in an adorable kitty last May, his good deeds became an internet sensation after the animal ****ter posted a heart-melting picture of the pair on its Facebook page.
The image received more than 4,000 likes and several hundred comments praising his selfless work — and handsome looks.
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Internet heartthrob: Hunky Baltimore police officer Jon Boyer, pictured, has been inundated with marriage proposals after this photo of him cuddling a stray Kitten he rescued and then adopted went viral
Now the officer features in the BARCS ad campaign ‘Show Your Soft Side’ and he has his own Facebook fan page, ‘I love Jon Boyer.’
Comments on the Facebook page include ‘Nothing sexier than a man with his rescued animal!’ and ‘OMG!!!!! HE IS HOT!!!!’ Other Facebook users wrote: ‘My future husband,’ and ‘Is he single??’
‘It was kind of weird. I hadn’t been expecting that attention at all,’ Boyer told Today.com of his rise to fame.
‘(Rescuing animals) was kind of a thing I’d been doing a little while before that. It just happened to blow up with that picture.’
He said he’s always had a love for animals, particularly cats.
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Star: Now the officer features in the Baltimore Animal Rescue Care ****ter’s ad campaign ‘Show Your Soft Side,’ pictured, and he has his own Facebook fan page, ‘I love Jon Boyer’
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Cute: Boyer, who’s been an officer with the Baltimore Police Department for three and a half years, had six cats at one point, and all but two are rescue kittens
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Longtime love: ‘I used to hang posters in my room of cats, because I loved them,’ he said
‘I used to hang posters in my room of cats, because I loved them,’ he said. ‘My parents always wondered why I didn’t like dogs. I love dogs, but cats are kinda my thing.’
Boyer, who’s been an officer with the Baltimore Police Department for three and a half years, had six cats at one point, and all but two are rescue kittens.
Now he has three cats, including Lilly, the Kitten in the photo that made him a heartthrob.
He said he gets why the picture went viral, telling Today.com ‘the whole guy in a police uniform with a Kitten makes people melt’
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Hero: Boyer, pictured, has always had a soft spot for animals and regularly drops off stray cats and dogs he finds around the city to the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care ****ter
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Teasing: While he’s fielding a steady stream of marriage proposals from his female fans, he said his fellow officers have responded to his newfound fame by jokingly nicknaming him ‘cat man’
However, he insisted rescuing stray animals was just ‘one of the million things’ he and his colleagues’ do on a daily basis.
While he’s fielding a steady stream of marriage proposals from his female fans, he said his fellow officers have responded to his newfound fame by jokingly nicknaming him ‘cat man.’
This was worth it if it meant bringing a greater awareness to the cause of helping stray animals in need, he said.
‘If (the media interest) is giving animals a chance to get rescued that wouldn’t have had a chance to before because someone sees my story, that makes me happy,’ he said.
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